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...cultural tension: Even as the family prepares to celebrate an arranged marriage, they speak in a jumble of Hindi and English (the young men tell everyone to “chill” in English, while grandmothers speak only Hindi) and the girls read Cosmopolitan, while the boys watch MTV. In any case, Nair’s message on globalization is unclear, for while she evidently reveres traditional culture through her attention to details during the wedding preparations, she highlights the liberating effects of western culture on the more suffocating elements of daily Indian life...
...Celebrity Boxing because they sit in a quiet room, alone, watching entertainments that are probably best enjoyed loudly with other people, preferably drunk. But from where I was sitting, Celebrity Boxing was not nearly as pleasurable in practice as in concept. It was funny as an idea - its inspiration, MTV's claymation "Celebrity Deathmatch," is hilarious. But as an actual event, it still came down to cheering as two has-beens sloppily beat the crap out of each other, which becomes sickly real when you're watching Todd Bridges pop poor Rob Vanilla Winkle's head like a tetherball...
...unusually high proportion for a debut album by Australian and British musicians. The bond bombshells may give purists a bad case of classical gas, but their tracks play so well against those of regional pop bands that the group was awarded a coveted opening slot at the recent inaugural MTV Asia Awards...
...quasi-dating.” Just don’t make it a place to show off your in-depth knowledge of some obscure branch of sociology. In any case, leave the endless banal blathering about relationships to those select professionals appearing on MTV...
...Winners OZZY OSBOURNE Ex-satanic rocker gets reality show on MTV. Fans may be bummed: he can't rock quite as hard with his new, restrictive hernia truss HU JINTAO Jiang's prot?g? invited to visit Washington by none other than invisible VP Dick Cheney. Of course, he'll actually have to find Cheney first AL GORE The Non-President holds first postelection fund raisers. Gala went well until Gore insisted that everyone call him "Mr. Real President" Losers DONALD RUMSFELD The Pentagon makes plans to spread false information ... then tells us about it. Does that mean they're lying...