Word: mtv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STARTED LIKE MOST JOURNEYS DO, full of idealistic hopes and dreams. MTV was having a contest --who would become the next Jesse Camp? Why not us? Why not me and my associates, Josh Simon and Aaron Cohen? Who could resist the charms of three scrawny Jewish kids moonlighting as veejays? Or, at the least, one scrawny Jewish kid. We would soon find out. Here is our story...
...Once Josh is sufficiently pimped up and ready to go, we head over to Times Square, the center of the world and the site of MTV headquarters. We look for a large sign, a line, some indication of where precisely the festivities are to take place. All we find is a disorganized mob of scantily clad, wig-wearing divas, pierced, goateed deadbeats, and gelled, coifed and primped daytime drama kings, 8 by 10 glossies in tow. They're all shouting the same question we have: "Where's the contest...
...After a few minutes of milling about, and coming to the quick realization that we are seriously out of place, an MTV employee suddenly appears and declares, "Line up here!" Chaos erupts. We try to hold our own, we throw our elbows left and right, we fight tooth and nail to reach the front of the forming queue. When the fracas settles we find ourselves on the corner of 8th and 45th--Times Square is no longer in sight...
...slump against the wall. Two people back stands a large black woman. Perhaps MTV is looking for the next Star Jones. In front of her is a lanky fellow in full EMS get-up. Every now and then, we catch his beady eyes peering out us from under his hood...
...WANT MY MTV Well, you can have it. The World Wildlife Fund has teamed up with MTV to provide 60-sec. videos aimed at inspiring viewers to environmental heroism. Also worth a look are the video Earth Reports, viewable with the Vivo or VDO plug-ins. Go to www.panda.org and click on "Video Library...