Word: mtv
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...When the room is packed, I say, 'Thank you, Shakira and MTV,'" says Mesmera, who teaches belly dancing in Los Angeles. Mesmera (real name: Laurie Rose) began belly dancing 27 years ago and in recent months has seen her class sizes swell. She says she doesn't care what brings people in; she's just happy to get out the message that belly dancing "gives you a stronger sense of self," even if that self doesn't look like Shakira. "We're all different shapes and sizes, but Mesmera makes everybody feel beautiful," says Monica, a high school teacher. Echoes...
Knoxville (who uses his real name, P.J. Clapp, off-camera) has made a career for himself by damaging his body in spectacular ways. Until Ozzy Osbourne let cameras into his living room, Knoxville's show, Jackass--it's named for the idiocy of the stunts performed on it--was MTV's most popular program ever. In it, Knoxville and his skateboarding pals would go on adventures like shooting one another with stun guns, sitting in a well-used Porta Potti while it is flipped upside down and competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest...
...band of modern-day Knievels made only 25 episodes (the series was cut short after running into criticism from parents and Senators), their craft lives on, not only in imitation homemade, backyard-wrestling-style tapes advertised in late-night cable commercials but also in their final project: a new MTV film, Jackass: The Movie, opening this week. The movie differs from the TV show mostly in that it will be shown in theaters...
...ANGELES at the MTV Movie Awards, where she made her debut performing Papa Don't Preach...
...offend someone. Wearing chaps, leather underwear and a smirk, she writhes in pools of muddy water and hangs out with other similarly clad colleagues in a boxing ring. Despite all this effort, the video has not proved raunchy enough to earn the ultimate publicity coup: getting banned by MTV. Rather, it has offended the government of Thailand, a country not known to be coy about sexual matters. Officials are not objecting to the dance moves or what looks to be an orgy but to a pair of posters in the background written in Thai that refer to the country...