Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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The Next Action Star and Starlet were bad ideas because you can't deliver that. Even on The Apprentice, you can't turn those people into captains of industry. You can, in fact, say: We're doing a show on the Food Network and whoever wins gets a show on the Food Network. How can we do that? We're the Food Network. These are networks that can do what they promise to do.
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The odds of this happening are just too high to calculate, and I really can't explain it, ... It's strange. It makes you think of a jinx.
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That's really fascinating. It's method acting gone wild ù a character who's not only reading lines and performing in the show but also continuing to perform outside the confines of 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.
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Everybody seems to know Alan Greenspan. I think we accepted him as a smart guy. ... There is something very magical, mystical, almost voodoo-like about what he does.
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The biggest thing driving the DVD market is not watching it, but owning it. There's a study that found an overwhelming amount of people buy full series, but have yet to open them or to take the cellophane off. The satisfaction is in owning them.
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The big ethical question is, is this somehow unseemly to do? I'd have reservations if it were a member of my family, but she clearly wanted to be part of this.
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It's a policy to honor donor intent. It's a double-edged sword and it's one we don't like to have to encounter, but we understand and do our best to let people know we've reached our fund-raising goals in those instances.
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It's hard to remember life without eBay. It's one of those things like fast food or Disneyland. Once they make their appearance on the American landscape, they become part of the language.
It's just so dense, so literate, so extraordinarily well-written, so layered,
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It was the kind of program you saw when you were home sick from school. We were in our pajamas, not in school and our mothers were about to bring us hot soup.
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They build up interest in the contestants so there's a lot of emotional attachment. You care who gets voted off. It's a soap opera.
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They've taken the idea that it used to take a leisurely whole season to achieve, and they've done it in one single episode.
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It's awesome that the controls we have in place to flag suspicious cases actually worked.