The then-fledgling music-video channel flew Jefferis and a pal from Phoenixville, Pa. I took a sip and asked for more. The two of us wound up together in the shower.
Unbeknownst to MTV, Jefferis had suffered brain trauma a couple of years earlier, as a result of falling 13 feet in a stairwell, and was not equipped to handle Van Halen-level partying. So Alex Van Halen told him to shotgun a ounce beer. The contests sometimes ended in sex, chaos or with winners owing thousands of dollars.
Other times, things went worse. That [first] one stayed on our books for five years before we wrote it off. She, her then-husband and their three children happily moved into the Sayreville, NJ, digs. But it came with drawbacks. But the big downside arrived a year later. Meanwhile, Patrick McLynn won tax woes and a Batmobile in the summer of So cool that the fabricators who had provided it to MTV angled to get it back.
They offered to throw in a Corvette. Then the IRS took notice. Adding insult to injury, McLynn had signed an agreement that forbade him from displaying the car for money. After 13 years, he sold it for a low six figures.
When a viewer snagged a trip to see prog-rockers Asia play Tokyo, she flew there with MTV talking head Mark Goodman, among others. The concession stands [at the concert] were closed, and we were starving.
