Word: shows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...royal treatment at MTV. Besides getting to be in the audience of a show for which kids compete vehemently for spots, we also had a chance to sit down with Daly and an executive producer of the show to find out why TRL has become such a runaway pop culture juggernaut. Want to hear Carson's opinion of Harvard? Or find out what really makes these teenage girls tick? We'll lay out our whole Incredibly True Adventures of A Boy and a Girl in Love...with MTV in a coming issue...
...past summer, I had a single goal in mind. The house, the vacation, the roommates, the new city were all unimportant. I was in it for the clothes. What clothes, you ask? Well, here's my plan (feel free to steal it if you ever get on an MTV show): the moment you're cast, you get on the phone with every major fashion designer in the world. You call Armani, you call Versace, you call DKNY, Polo, Gucci, etc., etc. And you sell yourself, Listen, I'm going to be on The Real World. Broadcast as a personality...
...deems protection against yellow fever necessary and, in fact, some countries require all travelers to show proof of immunization...
...singing with its mad dash through practically all the Western fiction and drama worth reading. But an experiment in Brechtian musical theater this is not. With love ballads about the loss of Christian morality that come across as even more depressing than Tom Stoppard's musings in Jumpers and show-stoppers about the benefits of being a male nun, Durang's songs are more bizarre than his scripts, if that can be believed. Add to this a text that switches languages as quickly and gleefully as it does literary allusions, and you have what very easily could have been...
...Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show."--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, as read by Homer Wells...