Word: vh1
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...Enter VH1 president John Sykes, who discovered the crisis when he went to P.S. 58 in April 1996 to participate in New York's Principal for a Day program. Luckily he was in the perfect position to find people who could help restore the music curriculum at P.S. 58 and hundreds of other schools. Who would be more enthusiastic about giving kids a trumpet to toot or a guitar to strum than those whose talent had been nurtured and who had got air time on Sykes' channel? Under Sykes' Save the Music campaign, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow...
...public school in the Bronx that sits amid empty lots and broken glass, a fifth-grade class is playing La Bamba from photocopied sheet music with drums that are too loud and a clarinet that is too squeaky. To the audience, it's better than the Met. Last week VH1 Save the Music got recognition high and low. It won the Peabody Award for public service and received $32,000 when the returning champion on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire earmarked half his winnings for Save the Music. School halls are alive with the sound of music...
...unevenly concentrated in the beginning of the film. He and Blumberg also seem intent in showcasing their knowledge of pop culture. In just the first half hour of the film, references are made to Lauren Hill's departure from the Fugees, the _Buena Vista Social Club_, Tuesdays With Morrie, VH1's "Behind the Music," and even the movie _Seven_ , the "ultimate Bible Cliff Notes" to which Brian directs his congregation when no one can name the seven deadly sins. The most resounding image, however, is undoubtedly Jacob and Brian's sauntering down a New York avenue in matching leather jackets...
...lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format?" he asks, burping nonchalantly and narrowing his eyes to a laser glare. "I'll leave that to everyone else...
Waiting for his friend Ethan to come by, DiCaprio flips through the channels and passes a VH1 special on the Bee Gees, which causes him to belt out a falsetto version of Staying Alive, followed by, for some reason, Funky Town. Then he flicks by What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the movie for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. "That was the funnest character to play ever, dude. It was so fun, I was playing it off-camera a lot too. Every scene I just did whatever the hell I wanted. They didn't have much...