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A group of hip-hop fans invited to hang out at MTV's beach house in the Hamptons was jolted back to the real world - busted for a wild melee at a nearby club. Four young men were arraigned yesterday in Southampton Town Court on charges ranging from assault to robbery for the Tuesday afternoon brawl at Summers Beach Club. One person was badly hurt in the fracas, and it took cops from three different departments to restore order at the popular party spot in East Quogue. "There were 100 to 120 people involved in various fights," said Detective Sgt. Randolph...

Every punk and metal band screams in rage and anguish. Los Angeles bruisers S.T.U.N. don't just scream, they Scream Towards the Uprising of Nonconformity. It's what the letters in their name stand for, and it's clearly the type of motivational political stuff they represent. Sometimes, when a band wants to show just how gosh darned dedicated it is to such an ambitious goal, the tariff must be paid in blood. S.T.U.N. made such a gesture at a Dallas show in May when, during the second to last song in the set, vocalist Christane J. climbed the bass drum, then leapt...

CBS Television is promoting tonight's debut of "The Amazing Race 4" by proudly proclaiming a male homosexual couple on the show to be married to each other. The primetime reality show features 12 teams of two people with a pre-existing relationship racing around the world in a quest for a million-dollar prize. 'Married' male couple on CBS In current promotional ads on the air, the network touts one of the teams – consisting of two men – as ''The Married Couple.'' "Yes, they are a married, gay couple," a CBS spokeswoman tells WorldNetDaily. "They're married and they're gay. Is there...

TNN Rebrands Itself Spike TV APRIL 15, 2003 - TNN: The National Network will become Spike TV on June 16 and will be repositioned as the first network targeting men. "Today the first network for men has a name, and it's Spike TV," said Albie Hecht, president of TNN. "Spike TV captures the attributes and essence of what we want the first network for men to be. It's unapologetically male; it's active; it's smart and contemporary with a personality that's aggressive and irreverent. This is a first major step in our journey to super-serving men in a way no one...

Is World Wrestling Entertainment down for the count? Long viewed as the best (if not most tasteful) way to reach teenage boys, the league has begun to suffer serious ratings erosion of its marquee shows. Vince McMahon and company have attempted to stem the slide by rolling out a new trio of cable shows whose appeal is limited mainly to wrestling's hardcore faithful. But such measures, or even better conceived ones, may not do much more than slow the WWE's descent, with wrestling's popularity entering one of its cyclical downturns in the view of some analysts. The slip in ratings...