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...attract the prime catch, the black military man. In a country notorious for its disdain for people of color--pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty--the emergence of a subculture fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity...
...know the right radio stations, the right clubs, the right record stores. It did not make Casey Kasem's countdown. It did not pack thousands of screaming guys with cigarette lighters and mullets into football stadiums. Above all, it did not, in those pre-Jackass days of MTV, have videos in heavy rotation...
Something old (Huey Lewis), something new (Aaliyah), something borrowed (N.Y.P.D. cops) and, unfortunately, something blew: MTV's 20th-birthday bash. Hours of interviews, swooping cameras over the badly dressed crowd, ads for ladies' shaving gel grudgingly interrupted by musical performances...come to think of it, kind of like watching the music-TV network itself these days. Even TOMMY LEE slurping host CARSON DALY's stubbled puss wasn't a shock--Lee did Puffy Combs at the MTV Movie Awards in June. The five original VJs-- from left, ALAN HUNTER, MARTHA QUINN, J.J. JACKSON, MARK GOODMAN and NINA BLACKWOOD--tried...
...beau of three years, Latino popster Luis Miguel. She had a catfight (though not, as reported, a fistfight) with Mira Sorvino on the set of her next film, Wise Girls. She looked frazzled and spent on a BET interview show. She stripped down to a sports bra on MTV's Total Request Live. At a mall appearance in Westbury, N.Y., Carey rambled about "positivity" until Berger grabbed the microphone from her; the mike went back and forth, and, Berger says, "I won." This led to an intense chat between star and flack. "She was upset," Berger explains...
...country notorious for its disdain for people of color?even among Japanese, pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty?that a subculture has emerged fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity. There is an objectifying component to the kokujo's particular infatuation, and by definition that is dehumanizing. If you are saying a black is better than a white, that's racism, albeit through a twisted, hip-hop hula hoop. And isn't part of the appeal of these...