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...this past year's MTV Europe Music Awards, Madonna took the stage in a glittery KYLIE T shirt. Perhaps the tribute was tongue in cheek--a huge star defining herself by what she is not. More likely, it was heartfelt. Not everyone can carry the weight of the world. Kylie Minogue is a pop star, nothing less and nothing more. Perhaps, sometime in the near future, American audiences will be willing to accept...
...taped intro to the Costume Design award, with Stiller, dressed as a dwarf from The Lord of the Rings, radiating his patented passive-aggressive anger ("I look like a freakin' ZZ Top troll boy"). It was such a good piece, in fact, that it could have come from the MTV Movie Awards, which the Academy could still learn a thing or a hundred from...
...executives who didn't want their names used told TIME that bait-and-switch trailer tactics are as integral a part of the movie business as Oscar parties and backstabbing. Trailers often have music that is not in the movie, and older actors are banished from spots destined for MTV. Studios will use several production houses to make different trailers for different audiences by emphasizing only a part of the movie. "They'll tell one company to sell it as a romantic comedy," says a trailer producer. "Another will make it look like a music video...
...rock grit tossed in. Singer and keyboardist Todd Baechle, 28; his brother Clark, 21, on drums; keyboardist Jacob Thiele, 22; guitarist Dapose (just Dapose), 22; and bassist Joel Petersen, 27, plan to embark this week on an arena and theater tour with the hugely popular No Doubt, so the MTV audience is in their sights...
...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...