How Pop Killed Sex

Tuesday evening, for VH-1 and Vogue‘s "Fashion Rocks" show, the Black Eyed Peas performed a hip-hop version of the Rolling Stones’ "Miss You." Turning one of the sexiest songs of all time into a dead-eyed, fake-funk abomination is a real accomplishment, though to be fair, it’s just another day at the office for B.E.P.

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Vh-1 Celebreality Guru Michael Hirschorn to Change Role

Michael Hirschorn, the lowbrow celebreality guru and highbrow Atlantic Monthly columnist, is on the verge of signing a new deal to serve a much different role at Vh1, where he has served as Executive Vice President of Original Programming since January of 2006, according to sources familiar with the situation. Details of Mr. Hirschorn’s new Read More

Mr. Bad Taste

One day in 2002, Michael Hirschorn of VH1 was thumbing through an obscure music magazine when he happened upon an article about a BBC TV show. At the time, Mr. Hirschorn was on a frantic search for creative new programming ideas that might give the struggling cable channel a shot in the arm, and something Read More

Bloomberg, Bambaataa, Etc.

Wearing a dark pinstripe suit, open white shirt, mirror sunglasses and braided pony tail, Ice-T walked into the Blue Room for his City Hall press conference. “We were here lobbyin for movie stuff and we got it,” he boasted to a gaggle of political reporters. When the Mayor arrived, welcoming everyone to City Hall “or Read More