Word: mtv
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, I inadvertently joined Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) and found that I loved making television as much as I loved watching it. One fine October day during my sophomore year, my HRTV cohort Mandel Ilagan, game show guru, told me about a new MTV game show in development that was looking for contestants (no, not "Singled Out"). It was a quiz show called "Idiot Savants," which tested players' academic and pop culture knowledge in exchange for valuable merchandise (no cash prizes, unfortunately). The opportunity to benefit from the sheer mass of the junk I had stuffed into my head over...
After a preliminary screening via phone and a trip down to New York City to try out against other potential contestants, I got a call from MTV asking me to come for a taping the week of Thanksgiving. Whoa. I had my chance...
...down and something about the wait snapped me into a paranoid inner dialogue. "The MTV producers probably hope you'll be their fall guy," I thought, "the overly studious Ivy League student who doesn't win because he can't get his nose out of the books long enough to know jack about pop culture. Most viewers would probably get a kick out of seeing a Harvard guy wearing the dunce cap. Sure, maybe you think you're a TV junkie, but anything you screw up'll look like cluelessness. A hundred bucks says they play the `Harvard Guilt' card...
...started watching Wheel of Fortune and MTV and reading `People' magazine," Melee said. "I was afraid I would have to name the entire Brady Bunch...
...stores and advertisements, consumer culture has an in-your-face showmanship. In America, we seem to have moved away from glitziness to an age of smug, oblique advertising. American advertisements do not even bother to show the product anymore. Rather, Madison Avenue delivers an inexplicable barrage of post-MTV cuts and images. In Moscow, the advertising is every bit as conspicuous as the consumption. Opulence is in. The endless parade of television ads for health products, from Head & Shoulders to Centrum to Trojans to breast enlargements, shows in painstakingly detailed diagrams exactly how beautiful and healthy these products can make...