In the fall of 1999, Alex was cast for MTV’s first original
MTV
movie, 2ge+her, revolving around the ups and downs of a manager,
Bob Buss [Alan Blumenfeld] trying to put together a boyband in 7 days.
Alex played the “rebel” of the boyband, Mickey Parke. Other castmates
included Noah Bastian, playing the “shy one”, named Chad Linus, Evan
Farmer, playing “heartthrob”, and Kevin Farley playing the “Older
Brother”
type. 2gether was fiction turned reality after their movie premiered
February 21, 2000, and was a hit. The mock boyband had
such hits as “U + Me = Us (Calculus) and The Hardest Part of Breaking
Up
(Is Getting Back Your Stuff). They had numurous appearances and
magazine
features, and on August 15, 2000, 2gether: The Series premiered
on
MTV. The first season had 13 episodes, and the second had 6 episodes,
one
unaired. The boyband was featured on MTV’s Making the Video and
the
special Celebrity Dream Date in the summer of 2000. There was
also
a behind the scenes special in February of 2001 before the second
season,
called Behind the Awesomeness. The boyband was a huge hit, with
everything from the movie to touring with Britney Spears, and the
phenonmenon carried on in Canada and even Europe.
After a
Michael Cuccione died, MTV turned 2gether downhill after their
second season. There are still many fans and fansites out there, and
many
are fighting back at MTV.For more 2gether info, visit mtv.com