In the Spotlight
This week, MTV Russia started a new showbiz gossip show called “Minimum Program,” which promised to tell you “everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.” I was hoping the first 30-minute show would reveal who ordered the 2006 shooting of pop singer Avraam Russo, how many singers list their korporativki concerts on their tax returns and whether President Vladimir Putin really enjoys watching his pet rock band Lyube sing “Kombat” for the 50th time — or just finds it too awkward to admit he’s more of a Leonard Cohen fan.
But as the philosophers say, it’s all about asking the right questions. And MTV did the job, as long as you wanted to know whether pop singer Slava’s breast popped out of her dress at the MTV film awards for publicity reasons and whether Svetlana Khorkina’s singing voice is as good as her triple saltos. The answer to both those questions was no, although opinion was divided on whether Slava’s bosom jumped or was pushed.
The breast incident took place on the red carpet in April last year — that’s how fresh the gossip was. Slava burst out of her plunging yellow dress just as she stepped into the camera flashes. I was standing nearby, but somehow missed this crucial moment, probably because I was turning blue with cold. If Slava did pull on some hidden string, as publicity-seeking journalist Otar Kushanashvili suggested on the show, it was a brave step. She was risking hypothermia on a particularly wintry evening, not to mention unfavorable comparisons with the event’s guest presenter, Pamela Anderson.
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