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1 'i C2 TIIE HOME NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1994 LIVING ARTS MTV: Hopes Roseanne can stir up music video awards show Dogg and New Jersey rock superstar Bruce Springsteen who makes his first-ever appearance on a televised music awards show. Celebrity presenters include Cindy "House of Style" Crawford, comedian Adam Sandler and actress Sandra Bullock. In addition to the regular awards, the Rolling Stones will receive a Special Recognition Award for setting the standard of rock 'n' roll excellence (sounds like an excuse to get the old fogeys off their current tour and in front of MTV cameras, to me) and Tom Petty will be honored with the 1994 Video Vanguard Award. Continued from page CI awards slums like the Grammys, tonight's 11th annual MTV Video Music Awards provides a much-needed promotional shot in the arm for the cliannel thanks mostly to new host Roseanne and a move to New York City after eight years in Los Angeles. Broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall, the 8 p.m.

show features a record 13 live performances, including such august award nominees as Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Snoop Doggy MTV executives seem to be counting on the edgy, irreverent style of Roseanne (once Arnold andor Barr, now liberated from last names thanks to impending divorce proceedings), to rescue the show from the kind of bland posturing that marked the tenures of recent hosts like Dana Carvey and Christian (my smile is plastered on like cheap wallpaper) Slater. But it remains to be seen how well the willful and spontaneous comedian will deal with something so scripted and canned as an awards ceremony even one presented by MTV. Officials at the music channel, of course, are upbeat. "In Roseanne, we could not have found a host who more perfectly embodies the spirit and attitude of MTV," said Doug Herzog, MTV's senior vice president of programming. "We're thrilled to have the awards back in New York." Early kickoff Sun" (Best MetalHard Rock Video); Bjork's quirky "Human Behavior" (Best Female VidwjK Tony Bennett's classy "Stepping Out With My Baby" (Best Male Video) and, of course, Nirvana's ground-breaking "Heart-Shaped Box" (Best Video of the If you planned on catching the telecast later in though, you'd better think again MTV executives will also break' with tradition in refusing to market edited versions of the broacl; cast to other television stations.

later airing. The festivities start at with "The 1994 MTV Video! Music Awards Opening Act" a "pre-game" show highlighting, preparations for the telecast after nominees, including interviews with Courtney Love, wife of 4a5 Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobair and members of the band R.E.M.' jr Eric Deggans writes aboU music for the Asbury Park Press? Already the Big Apple's hype machine has kicked in for tonight's broadcast starting with a July press conference hosted by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and continuing with banners hung from Times Square streetlights and a huge, painted MTV logo adorning the street in front of the midtown Manhattan venue. "It became such an 'LA. thing' over the last couple of years, we didn't really hear from anybody in New York," Herzog told Tribune Media Services in a recent story. "(In New York), the vibe of the show will be different, both on and off the stage, in the flavor and the attitude," he continued, citing a planned tribute to rap music as proof.

"That's something that appeals to us, especially as it relates to the Video Music Awards, which we're always trying to keep fresh and new and exciting." Besides a superstar host and new venue, MTV executives have also shaken up the award process itself. Though industry honchos chose the nominees in all 22 categories, organizers also chose 500 MTV viewers to join an equal number of music business professionals in voting for winners in .11 awards including Best Video of the Year, Best Rap Video and Best New Artist Video. (Industry voters still pick winners for technical stuff like Best Editing and Best Direction). The most nominated artists include Aerosmith (8), R.E.M.(5), Bjork (6) and the Beastie Boys (4), but the audience contingent ensures that it's anyone's guess who'll walk away with what awards. This critic's picks include Springsteen's sparse lament "Streets of Philadelphia" (Best Video From a Film); Green Day's punky, in-your-face "Longview" (Best New Artist Video), the loping Soundgarden clip "Black Hole MAKERS RACKS DECORATIVE YET FUNCTIONAL Use it Cookware Collectibles 1 I I FAME I JLML'i Microwave TV Books Plants Ahaim, 230 Denison Highland Park, for its afternoon Hebrew School program.

The school meets Sunday from 9:30 a.m.-noon and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Call (908) 247-3839. New officers Over ISO on Open house and registration The I.L. Peretz Community Jewish School, a secular Jewish Sunday school, will hold open houses today from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10:30 a.m.

to 12:30 p.m. at Rutgers Preparatory School, 1345 Easton Somerset, Franklin. Call (908) 545-9691. Michael Babst, Barbara Lipp, presidents; Steven Silverberg, surer; Allen Appel, David Schwj del, Irene Schweidel, Executive officers at Tempre-Neve Shalom on Grove Metuchen, include Michael Sher; man, president; Sandy Fields, Wit liam Home, Joel Reiss, Susan Varrf sover, Marvin Widis, vicVj presidents; Stanley treasurer; Goody Mollen and nifer Bullock, secretaries. Joan Htifz Open registration will be held Sunday from 10:30 a.m.

to noon at Temple Sholom, 815 W. Seventh Plainfield. The Sunday program for children in pre-kin-dergarten through 10th grade meets from 9:30 a.m. to noon and Hebrew School, grades four through seven, on Tuesday from 4-6 p.m. Call (908) 756-6447.

Open house and registration will be held Sunday from 1 1 a.m. to noon at Congregation Etz i-c 1 908-431-9492 179 South Freehold FURNITURE (1 mile east of Freehold Raceway Mall) The new board of directors at Congregation Beth Ohr, Route 516, Old Bridge, includes Alfred Feld, president; Marcia Trechak, i i "The Little Rascals" PG (old-fashioned fun without old stereotypes). "Andre" PG (girl and seal a sea lion in drag are best friends). "The Lion King" (too intense for kids under 6, but terrific). ROLLER RINKS' fSi Back to School Bargains I Nothing Over 5,99 -Every Day Plaid Flannel Shirt Baby Tees 10" Blue Colored Jeans from '10" Fall Fashions i "Camp Nowhere" PG (kids concoct fake summer camp; mighty amusing; pre 1 If teens snown Duymg Deer, but not drinking).

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They become Bonnie-and-Clyde-style folk heroes, and their exploits and imprisonment are just fodder for tabloid T-y Even Mallory's abused childhood is presented in flashback as a sit-com. It's wild, almost cartoonish. Stone's condemnation of the media and the criminal justice system is pretty clear, but his presentation may be too sophisticated for most teens. If you want to teach them a lesson about violence, talke them to "Fresh." Hey. COOL Rutgers Students! Htra Special Suruiual Guide Tufff en ii IV Get smart.

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