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...Reverse price cuts of as much as 17% that the 1992 Cable-TV Act imposed on cable rates. This would apply to systems carrying so-called expanded basic programming (for example, MTV or CNN in some markets). According to the Consumer Federation of America, the changes would add $5 to monthly bills for expanded service that now averages about...
...years ago, MTV made the uncharacteristic move of approaching two television producers significantly past the age of 25 to concoct a nighttime soap opera. What partners Mary-Ellis Bunim (a veteran of Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns) and Jon Murray, both in their 40s, came up with -- The Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery...
...Real World is addictive television, and it has become MTV's top-rated series. The success of the show has given rise to another Murray-Bunim creation, Road Rules, which premiered on MTV last week and will air on Monday nights throughout the summer. This series follows another group of carefully selected young strangers, this time placed in a Winnebago and told to drive around the country looking for clues to direct them from one destination to the next. In some ways, Road Rules seems a direct response to criticisms of The Real World: though edited in the manner...
Paying to see Clueless is not really mandatory. You can learn most of the jokes by surfing the TV and newspaper reviews and get a hint of Silverstone's blithe luster by watching mtv's relentless promotions. Taking this Cliffs Notes route, moreover, saves you from sitting through several slow stretches of plot sludge. During these scenes, Clueless has the feel of some mild sitcom purring in a far corner of the living room. You don't watch it so much as notice it, from time to time, in a genial miasma...
...thing of bits and pieces, attitude and gestures. It's like a restaurant where you go for the food and go back for the atmosphere. Or for the waitress. Silverstone is a giddy delight, a beguiling performer and an icon for her generation. Catch Clueless quickly, though: in the MTV era, a generation lasts about a nanosecond...