Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career,
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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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They didn't let Martha be the Martha that everybody wanted to see. If they could have shown Martha the way they show the participants -- to their vast disadvantage -- people would have loved it.
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This is a pretty big deal. Last year, we had New Year's Eve without Dick Clark and now New Year's Day without college football games. What's become of the holiday?
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This is one of Ellen DeGeneres' specialties. When you do an Emmy awards after a crisis like this, you need to fulfill the purpose of the awards show and yet not seem too self-important. She seems to be very good at it.
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This is pretty prevalent these days. Everyone knows of a kid like this. Then to see him go out and do this ...
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This came out as the center of the universe for the demographic of young people and it managed to bring together people who would have been very disparate in what radio stations they listened to. But they all came together in this one television hangout.
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Reality has taken a major hit. But it's far from dead, and some form of this stuff is going to be on television for at least the next century, if not longer.
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Reality TV comes along and it proceeds to marry with every other type of program and have offspring. We've got reality TV married to a talent show ? 'Nashville Star' and 'American Idol.' And now I think the same is happening with home improvement shows.
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People expected to go in to see a movie, and it was like a guerrilla attack. No one was expecting it, especially in Manhattan.
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Then, all of a sudden, it was big money. It went from small stakes to huge stakes, but at the same time, it was still very challenging.
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The music is secondary. The real pull is watching people grab for the brass ring. They're climbing the ladder. This is the great American story.
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Farrah Fawcett was in the prime of her big-haired, buxom beauty. She was the kind of person who could completely make 'Battle of the Network Stars' work. She was kind of goofy and she was such a huge star and you really wanted to see what she was like. And what you saw was a little peculiar and that made it fun.