2003 MTV Video Music Awards -- Live Thread

MTV live | August 28, 2003

[natewill]

You folks are acting like these are real people. They're not; they're fake. Why even bother. It's too friggin easy to dismiss this whole event as a love fest for non-people who,...whatever. Forget I said anything.

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[lainie]

We're well aware they're not real people. That's what makes it fun!

[hole_n_one]

I'm not viewing this live......

I'm getting the 3 hour tape delayed feed.

[hole_n_one]

[GUIDO]

Rocco is fine with a capital F. But then I like Italian guys.

YES, Italian men are the best. hehehe That is why I married one. You have good taste!

[hole_n_one]

[Timesink]

I live so middle-of-nowhere I "qualify" for the east coast/west coast network channels (luckily Los Angeles and New York in my case) on Dishnet. At this point I don't know if I still qualify or if they're grandfathered.

I don't know what you had to go through, but these days in order to qualify, federal law says you have to get written authorization from each of your closest network affiliates saying that they agree you live too far out of the way to get their signal clearly ... or else "prove" that you own an RV.

I've given a lot of thought to just signing up but using one of my relatives in New York for the billing address, so I can get the New York local channels. I hate the local channels here and couldn't care less if I never saw another West Virginia newscast. If I weren't so attached to my cable modem and the great deal I get by taking the modem and the full cable TV deal at the same time, I'd call DirecTV tomorrow. But I can't justify the cost just for the NYC local stations.

I really wish someone would start offering pirate streams of the NYC stations online ... at least the newscasts. Obviously it doesn't really matter if I watch "Frasier" via Channel 4 in New York or Channel 4 in South Succotash, but I want my New York news!

[lainie]

You weren't watching it at 5:00?

[Timesink]

I'm reading this thread wildly out of order at this point. Did Johnny Cash win ANYTHING?

[hole_n_one]

Nope.

The red carpet coverage didn't begin until 6:30pm pt in L.A. with the actual awards show starting at 8:00pm pt.

[hole_n_one]

I don't think so.

[hole_n_one]

Cash wins for Best Cinematography in a Video (last category listed)...........

Winners of 2003 MTV Video Music Awards

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Following were the winners of the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday:

Best Video of the Year: Missy Elliott -- "Work It"

Best Male Video: Justin Timberlake (news) -- "Cry Me a River"

Best Group Video: Coldplay -- "The Scientist"

Best Pop Video: Justin Timberlake -- "Cry Me a River"

Best Rock Video: Linkin Park -- "Somewhere I Belong"

Best Female Video: Beyonce Knowles (news), featuring Jay-Z -- "Crazy In Love"

Best New Artist in a Video: 50 Cent -- "In Da Club"

Best Rap Video: 50 Cent -- "In Da Club"

Best R&B Video: Beyonce Knowles, featuring Jay-Z -- "Crazy In Love"

Best Hip-Hop Video: Missy Elliott -- "Work It"

Lifetime Achievement Award: Duran Duran

Viewers' Choice: Good Charlotte -- "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"

Best Dance Video: Justin Timberlake -- "Rock Your Body"

Best Video From a Film: Eminem (news - web sites) -- "Lose Yourself"

MTV2 Award: A.F.I. -- "Girls Not Grey"

Breakthrough Video: Coldplay -- "The Scientist"

Best Direction in a Video: Coldplay -- "The Scientist"

Best Choreography in a Video: Beyonce Knowles, featuring Jay-Z -- "Crazy In Love"

Best Special Effects In a Video: Queen of the Stone Age -- "Go With the Flow"

Best Art Direction in a Video: Radiohead -- "There There"

Best Editing in a Video: The White Stripes -- "Seven Nation Army"

Best Cinematography in a Video: Johnny Cash (news) -- "Hurt

[hole_n_one]

Knowles...

[conservativefromGa]

What a complete whore slut and profanity fest. But damn that Britney Spears kissing was hot!

[Timesink]

Seeing all these pictures from outside the VMAs reminds me of when I used to work at the AP, which is directly connected to the other side of Radio City Music Hall (so much so that we used to sit in the fire exit stairwells at night, smoke cigarettes and listen to the concerts on the other side of the wall). The day of the VMAs were always the single worst day of the year to work, because they close off almost everything for a two-block radius to kiss the asses of these elitist scumbags, and try to force us working people to play the "Your papers, please!" game in order to even get into the area. Every time a cop pulled that on me, I just looked right at his nameplate and said, "You want me to present ID to *prove* I work for the AP and have a 'right' to enter a public building, officer X? Wow, this'll make a great story, you guys refusing to let regular joes get to work so that rock stars can play!" Then I'd start reaching for my wallet *and* a notebook at the same time, and the cop would just wave me through without fail before I got a chance to open either one. That happened several years in a row.

I never bothered to tell the cops that I worked in the financial data department.

[Timesink]

Cash wins for Best Cinematography in a Video (last category listed)...........

Thanks. At least he got something. But it just shows how far MTV, and the video genre in general, has fallen, that he didn't sweep every category.

[Timesink]

Poor Ben Stiller. With every passing day he looks a tiny bit more like his dad.

[Timesink]

No they all want to look like J.Lo...

Apparently so does Michael Jackson.

[cyborg]

he can't be bothered... he's busy organ grinding for spare change opening up his ranch... oh how the mighty fall... the saying 'God don't like ugly' comes to mind