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Appearing on "Survivor" has given Brown a small dose of fame...
Response: the only antidote to the textual impossibility of dialogue. Fame: from the Greek phonei, to speak; famous: to be spoken about. Fame, which takes the written word from its chaste page and breathes life into it. The dream of text: to become speech, imperfect and ink-stained images of itself...
...opinion, in speaking, in fame: so much rests on image, on tone, on touch. This is power beyond what the text can provide. (Bush has courts, Washington, time; I have sentences, capitals, period.) But somewhere in these hypotheticals, somewhere between the shorthand and the puns, between the writing and response, are the beginnings of authority. The space between comma and dash, introduction and headshot, margin and word is space full of promise...
...morning. If someone should ever actually get laid by an insignificant other on Temptation Island 2, that would doubtless do the trick too. We tune in to "reality TV" in hope of seeing one or more of our fellow citizens degrade themselves for (mostly) short money and (very) momentary fame. Watching these shows, we shake our head wryly: What are we coming to? Where will it all end? But there's not much conviction or concern in those questions. We of the demographic elite are all too busy watching The West Wing...
...this guy cool, or what? A hotter approach to filmmaking comes from John Herzfeld, writer-director of 15 Minutes, which takes its title from Andy Warhol's famous formulation about fame in the age of television. Like Minahan, Herzfeld has worked at TV's scuzzier levels (he once made a docudrama about Joey Buttafuoco), and his project was passed around even longer (eight years) before getting a green light. But unlike Minahan, who finds celebrity and greed "not very interesting," he's "fascinated by our culture's most volatile obsessions--celebrity, violence and wealth." His brutal but very well-made...