Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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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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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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How television and the culture are absorbing Katrina is certainly different than how they absorbed Sept. 11. Four years ago, all culture was put on pause. But people have continued to watch comedies and dramas and reality shows throughout, even when things were at their grimmest.
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It's pathetic. It's pathetic that someone in a time especially right after Katrina, seeing people suffer, would take advantage of the system.
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It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career,
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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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The odds of this happening are just too high to calculate, and I really can't explain it, ... It's strange. It makes you think of a jinx.
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That's really fascinating. It's method acting gone wild ù a character who's not only reading lines and performing in the show but also continuing to perform outside the confines of the screen.
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It might be a little easier to pull off. The volume helps. And there seems to be a real demand for it. With metal bands, the live-ness of the act is really important. Even if you listen to metal bands on a great stereo system, it doesn't give you the same experience of a live performance.
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It really kind of works in its absolute, utter simplicity, its kind of stripped down Zen-like quality.
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Everybody seems to know Alan Greenspan. I think we accepted him as a smart guy. ... There is something very magical, mystical, almost voodoo-like about what he does.
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The biggest thing driving the DVD market is not watching it, but owning it. There's a study that found an overwhelming amount of people buy full series, but have yet to open them or to take the cellophane off. The satisfaction is in owning them.
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The big ethical question is, is this somehow unseemly to do? I'd have reservations if it were a member of my family, but she clearly wanted to be part of this.
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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.