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...appearing on TV and getting a fat book deal is evanescing. Last week DREW CAREY signed a contract with Hyperion publishers allegedly worth seven figures. (It's probably just coincidence that Disney owns both Hyperion and ABC, which airs Carey's 1 1/2-year-old sitcom.) JENNY MCCARTHY had been on MTV for just two years when her book was announced. JON STEWART's talk show was canceled, yet he too will be between covers. But don't start making room on your bookshelf just yet for all these would-be TV authors. Remember Rosie O'Donnell's reportedly $3 million book...
...their videos (Wannabe is getting heavy airplay on MTV), the Spice Girls are the opposite of an early-morning aerobics program. One watches a workout show to get fit; one watches the Spice Girls because they are fit. All five are toned, energetic and attractive, though not overwhelmingly lovely. Perhaps it's because they are just shy of gorgeous that they are so popular: they are earthly beings, approachable, and could almost exist in real life, unlike, say, Christy Turlington. The Spice Girls range in age from 21 to 25. There's Mel B., with her curly hair and pierced...
...question is, How quickly will Hollywood release movie titles for this costly and unproved platform? About 100 DVD titles--including, ominously, zero from home-video-titan Disney--should come out this year (a few highlights: Raging Bull, Twister, Legends of the Fall and Tony Bennett's mtv Unplugged), which is a lot fewer than this new medium needs in the long run but more support than the infant CD industry got in its rookie year, 1983, when Sony moved a mere 35,000 players. "We think DVD will ramp up more quickly," says Briesch, who predicts 10 million players sold...
Vulgar and spam-brained as they may be, Beavis and Butt-head need no spin doctors--they were born to win the world over all on their own. The crudely drawn pubescents were first unleashed on the public in a 1992 focus group session MTV held in Teaneck, New Jersey, during which the audience was given a peek at Frog Baseball, a short film by a then 30-year-old novice animator named Mike Judge. The group's response to the film, in which the boys take turns whacking a bat at a harmless amphibian, went way beyond...
...course, they were. Launched in 1993, Beavis & Butt-head, Judge's nihilist satire of a teenage wasteland, went on to become MTV's highest-rated series, despite loud put-downs from some critics who often took the pair's debased antics too literally. The wide-screen adaptation of the show, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, was the surprise winner of the holiday season, taking in $20 million in its opening weekend to finish No. 1 at the box office and going on to gross more than $56 million. Now Judge is bringing his lean, subversive vision of ranch-house...