Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else.
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Elvis Presley Ate Here' is the cultural equivalent of 'George Washington Slept Here', ... Every time a place makes a claim that Elvis ate there, it becomes a memorial to his memory, to his life and to his legend.
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Then, all of a sudden, it was big money. It went from small stakes to huge stakes, but at the same time, it was still very challenging.
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As soon as distilled spirits were discovered and their effect on one's consciousness known, they became an important part of the tradition.
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Obviously, we are disappointed. We never want to see fatalities go up. Even one fatality is too many.
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It is one of the few shows on American television, especially after you get past those first couple of weeks, where really little kids love it, grandma loves it. It's got the kind of wide appeal we used to see all the time on network TV that we very seldom see anymore.
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The hardest thing is going to be surviving the analysis of the first week. People are going to be talking about her hair and her clothes and her lipstick. She's going to be under a microscope, and people will judge success not by the slow (ratings) climb that Schieffer started, but by whether she completely turns CBS around.
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It's the only television entity of any kind that ever had a generation named after it,
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In print media, the only one that's a growth industry is the celebrity magazines.
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Real World' took MTV from being a venue where people have video wallpaper and background noise to what arguably is one of the great dramas that became the voice of a generation,
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No one would ever likely confuse reality TV with Masterpiece Theatre.
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This is one of Ellen DeGeneres' specialties. When you do an Emmy awards after a crisis like this, you need to fulfill the purpose of the awards show and yet not seem too self-important. She seems to be very good at it.
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Interviewed after their transformation the girl said she still liked them ? but only as much as she did before.
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They build up interest in the contestants so there's a lot of emotional attachment. You care who gets voted off. It's a soap opera.