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the most beautiful role for a child star: 2ge+her's Q.T.
What: Michael Cuccione's performance as Jason "Q.T." McKnight on the 1999-2001 MTV mockumentary series 2ge+her, spotlighting a prefab boy band. In this clip, impresario Bob Buss introduces Q.T. to his new bandmates.
Why: 2ge+her was a perfectly timed show. The audiences for the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync were just starting to become self-aware, ( Read more... ) -
the most beautiful bit of psychedelia: Ralph Steadman's Alice
What: Illustrator Ralph Steadman's acid-trippy version of Lewis Carroll's classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, first published in 1967 by Dennis Dobson of London, then alongside The Hunting of the Snark as The Complete Alice in the definitive 1986 Jonathan Cape version.
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the most beautiful football player: Mike Singletary
Who: Mike Singletary, the dominant middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears' teams from 1981-1992. Here is Singletary's Pro Football Hall of Fame induction video:
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the most beautiful Christmas song of the decade: Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes)
What: Harvey Danger's disaffected Christmas song "Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes)."
Why: In this entry, I failed to include a single song from the current millennium. (The latest was from 1993. Santa needs to bring me a short-term memory.) I'll rectify that by talking up a stellar carol by Seattle's beloved sons, Harvey Danger ( Read more... ) -
the most beautiful way you can save the world: microfinance
What: Putting a few dollars into a microfinance account to loan capital to a small businessperson (usually a businesswoman) in a poor nation, through a secular organization like Kiva or a religious group like World Relief. This video by the folks at Difted shows how World Relief's microfinance program works in Earth's poorest nation, Burundi:
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
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the most beautiful Christmas broadcast moment: Linus's sermon
What: Linus explains the true meaning of Christmas by reading from verses 8 through 14 of the Gospel of Luke in the 1965 Peanuts cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The entirety of the broadcast can be found on ABC's site.
Why: What was Christmas like on TV in 1965? You could watch The Bob Hope Christmas Show, or, if you wanted a change of pace, ( Read more... ) -
the most beautiful game show moment: Scott Weiss breaks Jeopardy!
What: The end of the March 16, 2007, episode of the quiz show Jeopardy!, which featured the only nonzero three-way tie in the program's history. Here is the Final Jeopardy showdown.
Why: As it headed to commercial before Final Jeopardy, the March 16 episode looked to be like most others in the four decades since Jeopardy! debuted: one contestant ( Read more... )
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