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...fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair." Today, cable earns billions for the studios, as both a second home for feature films and gold-mine subsidiaries in studio-owned channels like MTV, HBO and Comedy Central...
...that's its attraction. There's an ironic local expression that sums it up: Frankenstein. It describes an old object or concept injected with new life through fresh components-"antique" chairs bolstered by new arms and legs, jeepneys revamped with transplanted motors and fresh paint jobs (a new MTV program, Pimp My Jeepney, is in the works), to ukay-ukay, or rummage-sale, vintage clothes stitched together with modern materials and prints. To me, Frankenstein explains the city's visual style as well as its strength and resilience. Improvisation and cheerfully making do characterize the Filipino attitude toward poverty...
...first two albums released by Fountains of Wayne, headed by New Jersey natives Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, were only moderately successful (read: largely ignored by the mainstream). With their 2003 record, “Welcome Interstate Managers,” they broke into the world of VH1, MTV, and Grammy nominations. Fountains of Wayne were nominated for Best Pop Performance, and, amusingly enough, Best New Artist, a testament to just how unnoticed their first two albums went. “Traffic and Weather” marks the first new release from the light-hearted popsters in four years...
...time letting an 11-year-old apply to be able to drink martinis or have sex or serve in the military. Perhaps a tiny number of children are mature enough for such adult pursuits, but why set up a system to find them? Epstein says the teen culture of MTV and American Pie is stultifying--but at least it's not life threatening...
Viacom, which recently yanked its programs from YouTube, has signed a deal to supply Joost with movies from Paramount and programming from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other stations. TIME has learned that Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV stations, to begin distributing programming from some of the 270 stations in 70 countries that JumpTV owns rights to. The deal will launch with prerecorded Spanish and Arabic programming from stations in Latin America and the Middle East. Eventually JumpTV plans to provide Joost with live streams from TV stations...