The year was 1990. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The Gulf War had begun. Nirvana was on their first major tour. And something called the internet was creeping from university campuses into bulky home computers.

If you remember that moment in time, you also remember MTV, the pop culture juggernaut where music, sex, politics and youth culture slammed together at dizzying speed.

And that’s partly because of Mark Pellington, one of the main engines behind MTV Buzz.

Subversive and loud, MTV Buzz helped launch RuPaul’s career and raise Gen X awareness of voting rights, safe sex and even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And Pelligan, the show’s…

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