New Jersey Stage - July/August 2014 | Page 46

everyone I know loves the Constitution. People who hate everything and disagree on everything, love the Constitution. So, that’s what got me fascinated with trying to figure it out for myself. Looking back on your career, you shot the video “Going Back To Brooklyn” in 1989. The city has changed so much now, did you ever wonder how you might have turned out if you grew up in today’s hipster Brooklyn? Oh my God, I would have New Jersey Stage probably been even more cynical and more ironic. Yeah, I would have been even worse. In the 80s, MTV was blamed for killing radio, but you were cohost of Remote Control — MTV’s first non-music program. In a way, you helped kill the video star! Honestly, I’ve never heard it phrased exactly like that. I’ve heard we killed MTV, but I like that… we killed the video star! We were there at the beginning of the end... July 2014 pg 46