Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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So many of these reality shows sound so egregious on paper. The automatic response when you hear this is to think, 'Oh man, how low can we sink?' But it's all going to depend on how it's executed.
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These kinds of characters are so satisfying to male viewers because culture has told them to be powerful and effective and to get things done, and at the same time they're living, operating and working in places that are constantly defying that.
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Even if it stopped now, its combination of longevity and quality has never been matched, ... is one of the great comic creations. ... He's complex in his own lack of complexity.
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If you're a U.S. senator and your sex tape is leaked, it could end your career. If you're Paris Hilton, it makes your career.
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The ESPN prestige, the ESPN penetration, the ESPN coverage has a lot to be said for it,
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I think we have yet to realize how much we are going to miss that. I don't think it's a total coincidence that it's happening at the same time there's an increasingly divisive nature in the country. What the consensus medium of television used to do, and radio before that, was to provide this enormous center that everybody had to go to now and then. ... Now, there is a lack of cultural consensus that even extends to what we consider the body of facts we used to debate.
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How long have we been hearing about all this new technology and the breathless cries of revolution, and it never happened? This year, the tipping point occurred.
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They've taken the idea that it used to take a leisurely whole season to achieve, and they've done it in one single episode.
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Geraldo was that voice in the news business who didn't mind giving his opinion . . . wore his heart and his opinions on his sleeve, ... Once upon a time, that was unusual. Now, turn on any cablecast and you'll see the same things. Geraldo is still a brand on its own . . . like Kleenex or Xerox . . . but there are a lot of people doing Geraldo these days.
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And the most amusing thing is when they would start behaving as if this were the Super Bowl.
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The music is secondary. The real pull is watching people grab for the brass ring. They're climbing the ladder. This is the great American story.
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Only in the new millennium, in the waning days of ironic cultural breakdown could something like this have happened. He is now a brilliant actor.
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There's a lot of us Native people in Alaska that do not want it.
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There's a place for what Geraldo does in the universe of journalistic commentary. I'm just not sure they've always found the right place for him to be . . . including this new show.