If you tuned into the season premiere of AMC's hit show Mad Men as I did, you were probably thrilled - giddy, even - to discover that you would be watching an hour of virtually uninterrupted television. Instead of the usual hash of commercials, BMW, the episode's sole sponsor, ran a single 60-second spot tailored to the show about 1960s Madison Avenue pitchmen. The ad featured a documentary-style interview with advertising legend Martin Puris, co-founder of the Ammirati & Puris agency, describing how he came up with the slogan "Ultimate driving machine."
The former Saved by the Bell star now leads girls' self-esteem workshops
September's 25th anniversary ceremony will include viewer nominations
While hosting TRL the country star say she "forgets the microphone different places"
Ellen Page, Will Smith, Zac Efron & Adam Sandler also win golden popcorn honors
"I have learned to have way more fun," says the returning (and more relaxed) host
A pressurized cylinder exploded at Universal Studios on Sunday, injuring two firefighters as they tried to fight a blaze that began earlier in the day, Los Angeles authorities said.
Jack Black, Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell will also hand out golden popcorns
The British rockers will perform the first single off their upcoming album at the show
The Love Guru star will emcee the June 1 festivities from Universal City
If you tuned into the season premiere of AMC's hit show Mad Men as I did, you were probably thrilled - giddy, even - to discover that you would be watching an hour of virtually uninterrupted television. Instead of the usual hash of commercials, BMW, the episode's sole sponsor, ran a single 60-second spot tailored to the show about 1960s Madison Avenue pitchmen. The ad featured a documentary-style interview with advertising legend Martin Puris, co-founder of the Ammirati & Puris agency, describing how he came up with the slogan "Ultimate driving machine."
The former Saved by the Bell star now leads girls' self-esteem workshops
September's 25th anniversary ceremony will include viewer nominations
While hosting TRL the country star say she "forgets the microphone different places"
Ellen Page, Will Smith, Zac Efron & Adam Sandler also win golden popcorn honors
"I have learned to have way more fun," says the returning (and more relaxed) host
A pressurized cylinder exploded at Universal Studios on Sunday, injuring two firefighters as they tried to fight a blaze that began earlier in the day, Los Angeles authorities said.
Jack Black, Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell will also hand out golden popcorns
The British rockers will perform the first single off their upcoming album at the show
The Love Guru star will emcee the June 1 festivities from Universal City
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• 18 in '08 This group gets its name from a documentary film by teenage director David D. Burstein, who spent two years examining the disconnect between politicians and young adults. (One congressman told Burnstein the government should never have lowered the voting age in the first place). After the film's release, Burstein launched the site "to register, engage, and mobilize America's youth," as the site's mission statement reads. As for why he started the organization, Burnstein tells Politico: "There is a tendency to categorize our generation as obsessed with Angelina, Britney and Xboxes. But more than ever, our generation wants to make a difference; we just have no reason to believe politics is a way of doing that." • Rock The Vote Rock the Vote, popularized by MTV's 1996 "Choose or Lose initiative," began in 1989 with founder Jeff Ayeroff's first campaign, "Censorship is UnAmerican." Ayeroff, then an entertainment
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Looking for a way to make a big difference in the financial lives of your young adult children? Help them get a head start on retirement.
When MTV Networks launched Logo, a cable TV channel for gay and lesbian viewers, in 2005, people expected a backlash.
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THE SHAWS, LITCHFIELD, CONN.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The MTV Music Video Awards are about to get a dose of Jack Black.
What is the Internet doing to us? Thirteen years after the invention of the web browser, are we any smarter? Are we creating more wealth? Or are we just watching more porn and getting more spam? Ho...
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To be honest, I don't even remember Melissa McGhee, but her take on Heart's "What About Love" is a perfectly generic cover that kicks off an entire album's worth of expertly crafted mediocrity.
NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - Viacom Inc. on Monday said it will buy Xfire, an online games technology company, for $102 million in a bid to dominate the youth market on the Internet as it has on television.
Say something in Farsi, Tom. "Dasterast is 'to the right,'" replies Tom Freston, the new chief executive of Viacom. "And dastechap is 'to the left.' Ruberu is 'straight ahead,'" he goes on.
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After nine consecutive weeks of sales increases, the soundtrack to the Disney cable TV movie "High School Musical" returned to the top of the U.S. pop album chart Wednesday.
Forget the MTV generation. Today's up-and-coming rock stars are setting their sights on a whole new target audience: the sippy-cup crowd.
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