Word: margo
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...Project is also using more traditional methods, by prompting an increase in public service announcements encouraging use of the designated driver. Celebrities like Sajak and Dr. Joyce Brothers will serve as "talking heads" for ads during this holiday season, says Matthew D. Margo, vice-president for programming and practices of CBS' New York broadcast group...
...Margo says that TV's support for the announcements and the programs is not surprising. "The record shows a very strong committment against alcohol abuse...the records show we have spent significant millions on anti-alcohol campaigns...
...standards remain far more conservative than those of some cable channels, not to mention feature films, and there is currently much skittishness about certain subjects, particularly drug use. But the networks' traditional hard-line approach appears to be easing. "We are no longer shackled by general prohibitions," says Matthew Margo, CBS vice president for program practices. "We look at the specific context of a show...
...music's very drifting, very ethereal," says Margo's brother Michael, 29, who is the driving force (as well as tour-van driver) behind the Junkies. "We lay down certain rhythms and grooves, establish them, then Margo and I color them. Not paint. Color. We're not concerned with reproducing Hank Williams as he was. We want his intent, his feel, as we hear it." The band, which has recently grown to seven members, also has a maverick edge that harks back to the best rowdy traditions of country. The Trinity Session contains a startling version of Lou Reed...
...right, if what's wanted is a night of unsettled dreams. The sound of the Junkies is a direct and salubrious reaction to the mainstream softening of country music. "What you hear on the radio is pretty sappy," he says. "It's pop with a Southern accent." Margo Timmins, 27, sings slow and deliberate. The other Cowboy Junkies play the same way. After a while, they can sound as if they're working a gig at the funeral for the sweetheart of the rodeo. This is a band grounded in silence ("The lack of sound is as compelling as sound...