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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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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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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Every element of this story added up to what I call the perfect storm. When I first heard about it, I was almost sure it was embellished.
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He is like a pig in slop in this thing -- this is clearly what he was born to do. When I first heard about 'The Apprentice' I thought it was a great idea for a show -- and I thought Donald Trump was going to stink the whole thing up. I was 100 percent wrong.
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The uniformed cop just ignored him and kept on walking. You could hear the pleading in Smith's voice, asking the officer what he was going to do, saying, 'Look, you can't just ignore this,' and the cop just kept on walking. It was compelling television.
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There was a sense that everything we were hearing we'd heard before. This was like a rerun. ... So much of this had already been on, there were no bombshells dropped.
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I have recently heard that word uttered in a second-grade class and in a Presbyterian church - by the teacher and preacher, respectively, ... 'Sucks,' 'bites' and words like that are currently being absorbed into the vernacular. Thus, their taboo origins are being dissolved.
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He still has some of the same mystique, but now the mystery has flopped from an asset to a liability. 'Who is the real Michael Jackson?' is not a question people want to ask anymore, when you're accused of something like this.
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rough contrivance to lift from the social conscience a burden that should not be either lifted or lightened in any way.
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I must admit, I am little giddy right now.
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It becomes just another media in which these celebrities work.
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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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It's so dense. There are so many mysteries going on. It's the perfect show for internet speculating.