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...three Harvard amigos actually wrote their first project in 1958, a comedy about the ongoing space race called “Countdown!,” which debuted in 1960 as a “modest production” in Leverett House. Carl remembers, “I grew up in a home with musical theater–my father was a piano player, and I sang in the high school Glee Club, so I knew about 2000 songs by the time I got here. I then found Steve [Price] who loved musical theater as well, and we got together...
...number 84 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. That’s not too shabby for any artist breaking into the business, but at the age of 18, Branch’s accomplishments simply astound. Granted, other kiddie stars have climbed closer to the top of the countdown ladders, but Branch’s music is more of a slow, steady burn than a firecracker explosion—one gets the impression that she is here to stay...
...When you bought a Housemartins single or a Husker Du album in the '80s, you bought entry into a club. Our music was hard to find: you had to know the right radio stations, the right clubs, the right record stores. It did not make Casey Kasem's countdown. It did not pack thousands of screaming guys with cigarette lighters and mullets into football stadiums. Above all, it did not, in those pre-Jackass days of MTV, have videos in heavy rotation...
...kicks off a six-week "cooling off" period began last Wednesday; the Israelis say it has yet to begin. A weekend that included Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli rocket attack and two car bombs detonated deep inside Israel appeared to render the discussion moot, and the more immediate countdown now may be the one that ends with the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, which will be followed by a race between Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be the first to say "I told...
...cater to the U.S. market, which has the world's highest percentage of PC users, a recently introduced initiative, MTV360, integrates the company's two cable channels with the mtv.com website. In Latin America, chart countdown shows like MTV's Top 5 Interactivo are driven by the choices of users on the mtvla.com website. An on-air DJ announces fans' votes...