Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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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.
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People expected to go in to see a movie, and it was like a guerrilla attack. No one was expecting it, especially in Manhattan.
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Now when you see the promos for 'Category 7,' everybody knows what that title means, everyone knows what FEMA is.
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Thank God that somebody did find it. I grew up with her father -- we all kind of grew up together -- so I've known them forever.
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The big thing is going to be when it becomes standard equipment in cars.
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It's hard to remember life without eBay. It's one of those things like fast food or Disneyland. Once they make their appearance on the American landscape, they become part of the language.
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The Next Action Star and Starlet were bad ideas because you can't deliver that. Even on The Apprentice, you can't turn those people into captains of industry. You can, in fact, say: We're doing a show on the Food Network and whoever wins gets a show on the Food Network. How can we do that? We're the Food Network. These are networks that can do what they promise to do.
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It was the kind of program you saw when you were home sick from school. We were in our pajamas, not in school and our mothers were about to bring us hot soup.
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This came out as the center of the universe for the demographic of young people and it managed to bring together people who would have been very disparate in what radio stations they listened to. But they all came together in this one television hangout.
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This is pretty prevalent these days. Everyone knows of a kid like this. Then to see him go out and do this ...
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Reality TV comes along and it proceeds to marry with every other type of program and have offspring. We've got reality TV married to a talent show ? 'Nashville Star' and 'American Idol.' And now I think the same is happening with home improvement shows.
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Technology Enterprise Park is the latest addition to the successful and ongoing efforts to foster the commercialization of research at Georgia Tech through Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures.
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You can redefine the place of Mars in pop culture. It's close enough to interact with.
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For all the enormous social and cultural upheaval and change and revolution which we've all come to know as cliched definitions of the '60s, prime-time television in this country managed to almost completely ignore it,