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...know, because four years ago I got one of the highest scores in the country on a phone test for an MTV game show called Idiot Savants. A few weeks later, I found myself quarantined in a studio with three other contestants. Someone at MTV had seen Quiz Show and taken it far too seriously, because we were not allowed to go to the bathroom alone, make any phone calls or say hello to friends in the audience. It is even worse at Millionaire. I don't know when, as a society, we decided that game shows were our most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Do Not Want to Be a Millionaire | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...much fun as MTV and twice as unpredictable: the Black Students Association's version of "Singled...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Students Association: Johnson Cultivates Social Side of BSA | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...petition from Alana's paternal grandmother arguing that the threesome's relationship revealed such "depravity" that it could "endanger the morals or health" of the little girl, a sunshiney four-year-old who prizes her Barbies. The grandmother took action after seeing the three discuss their lifestyle on an MTV program, Sex in the '90s: It's a Group Thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...FORT BOYARD, FRANCE. Groups are shipped off to a fort in the Atlantic where they have to overcome several challenges while being harassed by semi-supernatural figures in latex costumes. (MTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hour in Bangkok... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...mean that it's incomprehensible--like Mission Impossible or The Thin Red Line. The movie is so deliberately logical and well thought out that you find yourself nodding with your mouth wide open in shock. (You gotta love Spike Jonzes. First came that prank he pulled on the MTV Video Music Awards as a slightly retarded "dance troupe" leader, then came the scene-stealing in Three Kings and now prancing Malkoviches! He might single-handedly move us out of the Adam Sandler/Farrelly Brothers gross-out comedy era.) Critics are comparing it to Alice in Wonderland, but that's misleading; Wonderland...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's IN THE [K]NOW: A Pop Culture Compendium | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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