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...diamond in the makeover rough. The show is gripping because it invokes an obscene number of high school and college stereotypes, acutely playing off of teenage insecurities—it tells its audience that any transformation can be made with MTV’s help. In its casting call, MTV asks: “Are you…The soprano in the church choir but secretly want to learn how to rock? The computer geek who wants to put down his pocket protectors and pick up a varsity jacket?” If so, MTV suggests that...
...would love to be one of those featured acts on the MTV Movie Awards, to come in with props and have people know your song already, and expecting certain lines to come out. That would be really...
...mesmerized for hours. This process doesn’t just devour the couch potato’s time, but that of his roommates, too. Even if roommates aren’t drawn in by the TV’s hypnotic power, few students can study effectively with MTV blasting in the next room...
...State Department raged last week that Pat Robertson had suggested nuking its HQ. Did he, or didn't he? It's a close call as to who has said the darndest things lately--the Rev. or preacher's daughter Jessica Simpson, star of this season's required reality viewing, MTV's Newlyweds...
...This World mixes MTV-style camerabatics with the more staid tools of documentary style: time-and-place IDs, animated maps and a tendentious narrator who intones, "It is estimated that the U.S. spent $7.9 billion to bomb Afghanistan in 2001." Thanks for the stat, but we'd swear that Soviet soldiers, Taliban clerics, al-Qaeda mischiefmakers and one or two fratricidal chieftains all had a hand in causing the misery in Afghanistan...