BOOKSHELF "Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss," Rosemarie Terenzio (Gallery Books, 247 pages, $25) Nearly 13 years after John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard, his executive assistant/publicist/confidant

Johnny Ramone’s autobiography coming out in April Eight years after he died of prostate cancer, Johnny Ramone’s autobiography is finally being published. Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone is set for release April 2 by Abrams Image. His widow,

Ever wondered why our name is Remote Control? Aside from the obvious play on words, there's actually another, more important reason. In the '80s, MTV regularly aired a super-rad game show, which, along with "Club MTV," was one of the network's first seri

Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Thursday that it had signed with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn for an “uncensored” oral history of the music channel launched in 1981. The book is currently untitled and

NEW YORK (AP) - The original VJs from MTV plan to dish. Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn plan to publish an uncensored oral history of the early days of MTV. The fifth VJ, J.J. Jackson, died in 2004. They did an oral history for

When MTV debuted in 1981, decades before Jersey Shore and other reality shows dominated the primetime schedule, the network broke out as an influential game changer for music videos and youth culture. Four veteran veejays from those early days -- Nina Bl