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...viewers with Survivor 13. It's starting interactive TV in selected cities 14. NASA has found evidence of this on Mars 15. Vivendi has agreed to acquire it 17. Me, Myself and __ (new Carrey flick) 18. Photo __ (camera sessions) 19. Eventual hole in the wall? 20. Toots of restaurant fame 23. Ankle bones 27. Osama bin __, who has been linked to the Philippines' Moro Islamic Liberation Front 29. The Library of Congress has opened a show dedicated to her 33. D.C.'s Pennsylvania, for one 34. Dough raiser 36. www.time.com e.g. 37. Intel's CEO, who's downplayed the impact...
...Joel, at least, seems just the kind of guy this wouldn't bother a bit. He's already back in Arkansas, checking out the Paula Joneses, smiling that oily smile and basking in his four or five minutes of fame. The breathless CBS web site even let him depart with some favorable spin, calling the vote "shocking" and discerning a political shift in tribal voting from weeding out the weak to "offing likely winners...
...herself, and the return to normal life as an unpopular non-millionaire could be a rude awakening (both shows employ counselors who try and ease that transition). On the other hand, as Los Angeles TV news shrink Carol Lieberman told the New York Post, those 15 minutes of fame can be a powerful balm. "I'm not saying it's not humiliating," Lieberman says. "But the attention they get helps mitigate any pain they might be feeling after being called a loser in front of millions of people." As the man said, there's no such thing as bad publicity...
...camera, and he sees these series as a case in point. "Reality has become the greatest entertainment of all," he says. "It's symptomatic of a larger phenomenon that all of life is entertainment." It's a grand argument, appealing to our now conditioned distrust of the fame machine. But it's an easy one to take too far. In fact, most of us don't want to, in Gabler's words, "get to the other side of the glass," not this way. That's partly why we goggle at these shows, dumb struck...
...Schwimmers, with their phalanxes of publicists and flunkies, don't. You feel you're seeing, if not the true person, at least a less mediated version. (The charming gent on the island could be a complete jerk at home, but so could your charming dentist.) This puts these fame-game amateurs in the awkward position of having their very souls judged in public. "People stop me in the street and say, 'I really related to your character,'" says Real World vet Kevin Powell, 33. "I wasn't a character. That was me." And these noncelebrity celebrities tend to be bite...