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Whatever the reason, Turpin's suicide morbidly underscored the way NBC had been promoting The Contender (previews March 7, 9:30 p.m. E.T., and March 10, 10 p.m. E.T.; regular time, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.): as a reality series with high emotional stakes. Executive producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) says Stallone, whose co-host is boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, advised him to watch Rocky again before making the show. "It's not Rocky's story," Burnett says. "It's [Rocky's girlfriend] Adrian's story...
...Burnett focused on the boxers' personal lives, moving wives, parents and kids to Los Angeles to live with them. Turpin doesn't figure heavily in the debut, but there's a brief scene in which he cuddles Anje. "He lived a guarded life," says Stallone, "but when he was with his daughter and girlfriend, he became incredibly childlike." Says Burnett: "He wouldn't sleep in the bed we provided. He'd sleep under the bed, or in the closet, because he was so used to doing that in case there was shooting outside." The 16 middleweights are divided into...
Najai Turpin lost that larger fight, though producers will not reveal how he did in the ring. Burnett is not going to edit Turpin's scenes--it would be disrespectful, he says--but the producers are creating a trust fund for Turpin's family. Starting next month, millions of people will watch The Contender and feel they know Turpin. Yet his life ended in an act that not even those closest to him can explain. It turns out that in reality--actual reality--people don't reveal all in a soliloquy. And Rocky does not get a sequel. --With reporting...
...long-term stays, the price rises to accommodate requests like moving furniture, and Burnett said she expected to recoup the costs of renovation within a year...
...Burnett called the Commander a “great hotel,” but said it was not competitive with the Charles’s presidential suite...