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...Riot on an Empty Street sold more than 400,000 European copies. The tour is discussed in an in-depth article on www.norway.org, “Norway: the official site in the United States.” The single “Misread” overtook European MTV last summer, with its low-key unplugged melancholy and crisp, autumnal video of the band relaxing and playing music in a park, and the album was filled with a similar mellow, familiar sound—the scuffling of fingers along guitar strings, richness of cello and violin, and gentle vocals. While...
...cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger cousins mock my American “twang,” telling me that I sound just like the people on MTV. Wouldn’t it be appropriate, then, for me to be in a relationship that involved the meeting and sometimes the conflict of two cultures...
...Sundance, Paramount and MTV Films paid $9 million for Hustle & Flow, about a pimp with a mid-life crisis, and gave producer John Singleton an additional $7 million for two future films...
...profit margins high--as much as 50%, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. By 2008, Cohen projects, the business will grow to $3.9 billion annually. The biggest beneficiaries: Time Warner, which owns HBO, Warner Bros. and New Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th Century Fox, which is mostly owned by News Corp. Big-name actors like James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show are grabbing for a bigger piece of the DVD pie during contract negotiations. --By Barbara Kiviat
...line to his TV. Instead of selling basic cable-style packages, which often force consumers to pay for channels they don't want, PCCW opted to offer a content menu that is almost entirely ? la carte. Fees for individual channels?among them BBC, HBO, the Disney Channel and MTV?start at about $2 a month. Subscribers can readily drop channels and sign up for new ones on a monthly basis with a few clicks of their remote controls. "I like the freedom," says secretary Leung Man-fung, whose pay-TV bill comes to just $10 a month. "I only...