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...answer: recycled culture. Gen X had demonstrated an early appetite for nostalgia--witness That '70s Show and the Brady Bunch movies--and the network courted it with I Love the 70s and I Love the 80s, limited-run series in which moderately famous actors, comics and musicians riffed on mass-culture icons from Kojak to Kajagoogoo. The series riveted twenty-and thirtysomething channel surfers, as though tripping a Manchurian Candidate--like synapse. In just over a year, VH1's ratings jumped more than 100% among 18-to-49-year-old viewers. (Also, of course, recycling culture is faster--and often...
...have in common," says MTV/VH1 entertainment president Brian Graden, "which is our relation to pop culture." Now VH1 has packed its schedule with rememberfests like 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons and the new Bands Reunited, a reality show that tracks down, Blues Brothers--style, the members of '80s bands like Berlin and Extreme for reunion concerts. Coming up are the series Surviving Nugent, a reality show built around '70s rocker Ted Nugent, and a "postmodern" remake of The Partridge Family that will begin as a reality show in which viewers will help cast the sitcom...
...Dennis Potter?s miniseries masterpiece, a novelist, chained to his hospital bed with a grotesquely disfiguring skin disease, plots revenge on all those who have loved him not quite enough. I?d call it, with Krzysztof Kieslowski?s ?Decalog,? the great film of the 80s. Now it?s available on DVD, with all the usual add-ons, and with Michael Gambon?s searing central performance intact. A must-buy: your intellectual life is incomplete without...
...first time in more than six years. Gold broke $420 an ounce. Nickel is at a 14-year high. The Reuters/CRB commodity index rose 9% in 2003, to its highest level since 1996. Do soaring prices for raw materials mean inflation for finished goods, as in the '70s and '80s? "Almost certainly not," Ben Bernanke, a Federal Reserve Board governor, said recently. Sure, China's infrastructure and consumer-spending boom have bolstered demand for commodities. China purchased some 20% of the world's copper last year, compared with 5% in 1990. This demand pushes prices up, but China's capacity...
...year-old farmer, "is that I'm planting all these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life of fear. When the Sudanese military captured the nearby city of Rumbek in the mid-'80s, the villagers walked for two weeks to a quiet area in another tribe's lands, far from the fighting. They weathered famine, sometimes eating leaves, and when the southern rebel army retook the city in 1997, began their slow trickle back. But they have been too poor and felt too vulnerable...