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...cartoons, Disney movies and, for no apparent reason, daily back-to-back repeats of Growing Pains. But the whole Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a network" concept pays off in Bug Juice. It's a Real World treatment of 12-to-15-year-olds away at camp. Whereas MTV's show gets mired in the inconsequential whining of twentysomethings ("I can't believe you just stuck your finger in the peanut butter, dude!"), the torture of a 13-year-old boy worried about his first kiss is piercing. Whether parents would sign TV release forms for this show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Survive Summer | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Spark," which opens the album and the video to which is featured fairly often on MTV and VH1, waltzes the listener into Amos' haunting world. But what a sweet seduction it is. "How many fates turn around in the overtime?" Amos asks. "Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find?" Most Tori devotees have spent enough time with her albums to interpret her Cheshire Cat-esque questions; and even if one hasn't, simply beginning to ponder them against the sweeping piano background is nothing short of enrapturing...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Here's A Red Hot Redhead | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...with all of its money-hungry capitalists, cunning advertisers, flashy lights and technological miracles, has fully transformed the city of Robespierre, Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre. This transformation is unfortunate. It is an even sadder reflection on our country that, internationally, America has come to represent shopping malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps because of the semi-socialist basis of the French government or the eternal quest for liberty, equality and fraternity, the American cult...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM PARIS | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

Kids aren't supposed to be tuning in to Dr. Drew Pinsky on Loveline, MTV's popular nightly call-in show on relationships. The program is aimed at young adults, and, Pinsky says, younger teens shouldn't watch it without a parent nearby. But they manage to. Sometimes because of a technicality: the show airs at 10 p.m. in the Central time zone instead of 11 p.m., as it does on the East and West coasts. But mainly because the subject is sex. And if sex is on the tube, adolescents are sure to find a way of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Drew Pinsky, After-Hours Guru | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...full-fledged convert, Pinsky signed on as "Dr. Drew" to what quickly became Loveline, the hit Los Angeles-based radio show he still plays host on (and which MTV's version is based on). His growing medical practice confirmed his suspicions about kids: "Behind closed doors, they wouldn't talk at all. In my white coat, I was an authority figure. I was Dad, their worst nightmare." In a medium in which kids were comfortable, he could "demystify" difficult issues surrounding sexuality and "maybe make adolescence less painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Drew Pinsky, After-Hours Guru | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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