Word: ricks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...there too. Her presumptive opponent was New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, but a diagnosis of prostate cancer, coming in the same season as a separation from his wife and the revelation of a relationship with another woman, forced him to forgo the race. The enthusiastic Rick Lazio from Long Island got whomped by Hillary, 56% to 44. At the Democratic convention in Los Angeles in August, the Clintons were a team (right). But the body language on election night was telling. At Hillary's rally, the President kept sidling over for a hug, and Hillary kept striding away. There...
...RICK ROCKWELL & DARVA CONGER Was there ever a moment's doubt he would end up playing cheap comedy clubs and she would end up naked...
...RICK LAZIO Quayle-in-the-headlights landed Hillary in the Senate and himself back in obscurity...
Real people should not be on television," host Garry Shandling declared at the Emmys, to cheers from a crowd of nervous actors. Reality TV dominated 2000, providing some of its best shows (see No. 1) and ickiest lows (remember Rick Rockwell?). TV had other fantasy-reality conflicts: Leonardo DiCaprio played an ABC journalist with Bill Clinton; CBS's Early Show digitized its logo onto video of Manhattan; and then there was election night. At the Emmys, reality lost out. There's no award for nonscripted shows, and The West Wing's airbrushed depictions of our better angels beat...
...different. Like defining truth and beauty. "There clearly is a lot of leeway in what people have in mind when they talk about bipartisanship," Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman deadpans. Conservative Republican senators in Trent Lott's leadership team, such as Majority Whip Don Nickles and GOP Conference Chairman Rick Santorum, are singing the bipartisan anthem, but they are committed right wingers with aggressive staffs that haven't mellowed...