Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...version of an Oscar. Another young American, in another part of the exposition, did. Doug Aitken's Electric Earth, a slick, multiscreen video, earned him one of the three awards for best international artists. The video, about living "in the absolute present," as Aitken, 31, says, features the throbbing music and quick cuts more in tune with the MTV generation. But at least one visitor appreciated the languorous charms of Hamilton's show. There, in a mound of pink powder, an admirer had scrawled a single word: bellissimo...
...remembered all this last month as MTV began airing its newest and highest-rated season ever of The Real World. In an effort to relive my past, and possibly give MTV enough busywork to prevent it from developing any more non-music-video programming, I asked the station to dig up my tryout tapes...
DIED. ALLAN CARR, 62, movie producer; from liver cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Creator of Playboy Penthouse Television, Carr went on to write such camp movies as 1980's Can't Stop the Music. He produced the movie Grease and the Broadway play La Cage aux Folles...
Mark Pellington's jittery direction is not much help in establishing the false calm out of which true suspense might be built. He's one of those music-video refugees for whom you want to take up a collection so he can add a tripod and an editing machine with a functioning Pause button to his filmmaking arsenal...
...segments contain more far-reaching wit than almost any other 1 1/2 minutes of must-see TV. Promoting MTV, the Jukka Brothers slots create a kind of Hansel and Gretel-meets-Deliverance world in which coolness-deprived backcountry woodsmen learn about the outside universe only through the bikini-filled music network. When's the movie...