Arts&Entertainment: August 24, 2001
In the news
MTV has agreed to show the video for Afroman's Because I Got High, but only overnight and not on Total Request Live, and only after the record label agreed to make changes to it.
Florida Orchestra cuts jobs, budget
TAMPA -- The slowdown in the economy has caught up with the Florida Orchestra. In a special board meeting Wednesday, trustees approved a plan to cut the orchestra's 2001-02 budget by $550,000, to $7.6-million.
Side show
WILL WORK FOR NATIONAL EXPOSURE: Robert Downey Jr.'s first job since his April drug arrest is as the lone performer in Elton John's new video.
Boycott 'Bubble Boy' for your own good
Bubble Boy is the most pointless, relentlessly grotesque insult to comedy sinceFreddy Got Fingered. Why this movie exists is a mystery, but the reasons it offended people even before today's opening are abundantly, abysmally clear.
Off the top
BRAINS: The WB has committed to a pilot for a "dark" fantasy series about L. Frank Baum's land of Oz, with Dorothy and her friends treated as historic figures who inhabited the land more than 60 years ago.
