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...your online notes for Rebirth of a Nation, you draw a line between the montage filmmakers of the 20th century and the DJs of today. But cutting and sequencing beats to create a narrative has been reconstituted by the MTV generation as an ADD alternative to actual storytelling. How do you reemploy the method to startle and challenge audiences? What is the future...
...Staff imagines a day when all Harvard students can wake up and sign on to CSFB Webmail, have a few Purdue broccoli chickens, head to Sever Hall (presented by Visa) for a lecture with The Halliburton Professor of Literature, crash the MTV pub in Loker Commons, and then end the day at an Undergraduate Council meeting where Bylaw 62.35, sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, is invoked. Is this day that far off at our current pace...
...Internet voyeurs, someone hacked Hilton's Sidekick II, a wireless phone/camera/PDA/Internet terminal sold by T-Mobile. The hacker then spilled its contents online, including numbers of celeb pals such as Ashlee Simpson and Eminem, along with photos of a topless Hilton cavorting with Eglantina Zingg, a VJ for MTV Latin America. The intruder didn't hack the Sidekick; he nailed the server that stored Hilton's personal data...
...Oscar show is preempting Housewives on ABC, and producer Gil Cates has made a number of changes aimed at goosing the ratings. Several seem cribbed from an MTV Video Music Awards show. For one thing, Oscar's stage will extend into the audience. The aisles will become performance space, and some winners will give their acceptance speeches next to their seats...
Then, of course, there is the show's M.C., Chris Rock. Host of the MTV awards for several years, Rock has been promoting his new gig by bashing the Oscars ("What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars?" he said last month), raising concerns that his irreverence might be too much for Oscar--or the FCC. But there will probably be a time delay, and Cates insists he isn't worried. "He told me a couple times he never curses in front of his mommy," says Cates, "and his mom's going be at the show." Cates also...