Word: mtv
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What band would describe itself as “arrhythmic, atonal, amelodic”? Not any bands on VH1, that’s for damn sure: the closest thing to atonal on MTV is Britney Spears...
...culture guilty pleasure is an MTV show called ‘My Super Sweet Sixteen.’ It follows incredibly wealthy, self-absorbed girls as they plan spectacularly decadent birthday parties for themselves. If your idea of fun is watching a fifteen year old girl scream at her Israeli father because her white Range Rover arrived a day late, this is the show...
...strange and mythological," says Simon, of Southern Illinois University. "They've made him into a vulgar creature, not unlike Ronald McDonald welcoming you to his hamburger place." Counters Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar and co-chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission: "In an era where we battle iPods and MTV for attention, anything that encourages future exploration is good." --By Kristin Kloberdanz
...life in the passing lane, it is Bret Easton Ellis, 21. Since his first novel, Less Than Zero, was published in May, it has sold 50,000 copies and made several best-seller lists. Ellis, meanwhile, has become a cult celebrity, showing up on Today, Firing Line and MTV. Not bad for someone who just completed his junior year at Bennington College in Vermont. Ellis' book, set in the affluent Los Angeles suburbs where he grew up, chronicles a few days in the lives of a group of teenagers burned out on sex and drugs. "It can be taken...
...movies, you know, not chatties or peo-plies." L.A. does move, notably in a brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters not when, like Friedkin, you have fashioned a fetid movie hybrid: Miami Vile...