

McGrath let her bangs hang down over her eyes and looked out from under them, which she sometimes does when she’s thinking.

Everyone was bathed in the glow of TV monitors and laptop computers that were set up on a board in the middle of one of the rows of empty seats, about twelve rows back from the stage. Production assistants were talking on walkie-talkies to other P.A.s who were somewhere in the bowels of Radio City. Sitting around her in the huge, dim hall was a small circle of young MTV people. McGrath, who is the creative head of MTV, listened with an expression of sympathy on her face. A tall rap singer named Fab Five Freddy appeared out of the gloom of Radio City Music Hall, folded himself into a seat behind Judy McGrath, and pitched her an idea for an MTV special about life in prison.
