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More traditionally encyclopedic than The Ultimate Insider's Guide or Passport Abroad, The Midnight Special contains short summaries of each discussed episode, a few photographs and a selected quote or two from the featured performers. The presentation of the information is clear and coherent. Though it is almost completely bogged down in reliving the 70s, most of the discussed artists are interesting by virtue of either being genuine stars or genuine slock. Basically anyone remotely noteworthy in pop music in the 70s appeared on "The Midnight Special" at some point: from Sly and the Family Stone to Earth, Wind...
Once one has memorized all the information on the Boston, Miami, London, San Fransisco, Los Angeles and New York casts, it's time to learn a little about Road Rules, the popular Real World spin-off. In Road Rules: Passport Abroad, authors Alison Pollet and Leif Ueland have collected behind-the-scenes gossip and personal information that America has been salivating for ever since it first glimpsed five beautiful young men and women traveling cross-country in their very own Winnebago. Focusing on seasons three and four, Pollet and Ueland summarize the series of missions that the cast members...
...true MTV disciple, the most exciting sections of both The Ultimate Insider's Guide and Passport Abroad are the final pages, in which the reader is offered a chance to apply to the shows. Though 12,234 people applied for the seven spots in the Real World Boston cast, The Ultimate Insider's Guide seems to think you have a pretty good shot. "Just be yourself," the producers advise, and present a seven-page application with such intellectually stimulating questions as "What do you think about people who do drugs?" and "How important is sex to you?" The questionnaire...
...books are at least well-printed, in full, glossy color. The Midnight Special is respectable as a well put together repository of nostalgia, but Real World: The Ultimate Insider's Guide and Road Rules: Passport Abroad are useful only for the MTV fan wanna-bes who desperately need to be as cool as their friends. With the help of these new books, you too can eloquently quote from The Real World with witticisms like this from Eric of the New York cast: "You gotta do what you gotta do, y'know...
...groundwork for Yassin's release had begun the previous Friday, the day after the Mossad attack in Amman. According to an official privy to the proceedings, Hussein on Friday compelled the Israelis to acknowledge that the two Canadian passport holders were in fact Mossad agents. Asked whether Hussein threatened to cut off relations with Israel, with which he had made peace in 1994, a palace source replied, "It went beyond that...