Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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This time, you mention the word 'Survivor' and you can almost hear the crickets chirping in the background and the sagebrush blowing across the town.
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This time, because there was something else a little more important in the headlines for these newsgathering operations to deal with, they virtually didn't cover this at all, ... Consequently, I would say on the order of several million people who probably would like to have watched 'Survivor' might not even have known it was on.
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There are a lot of people not doing well in their alternative rock acts, who are turning around and looking at their friends in Grateful Dead bands, Elvis tributes, who are getting gigs. There was a demand for the original groups.
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There are religious activities; there are wedding receptions; there are a lot of family reunions there.
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This story is way more interesting than the 70 up-close-and-personal feature stories that ran during the Olympics.
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Where else would you do this? If you do this in a serious venue, it would sound smarmy, produced and self-conscious. The best way to get out of (trouble) and get a few laughs is to have a late-night comic helping you through.
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To have a public intellectual host the Oscars, that doesn't happen too much. My biggest worry would be that he'd upstage the entire night.
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We're so awash in tongue-in-cheek-attitude, ... it may get to a point when it burns itself out.
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When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.
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From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures ù and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside ù if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.
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For most of the '60s, television was trying to hold the dyke. All of these changes and pressures built up throughout the 1960s and finally burst in January of 1971.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension. I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension, ... I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.
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He's been doing this for years. This guy is a completely different category.