Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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Cool is certainly a charter member for the slang hall of fame. Cool just sits back and keeps getting used generation after generation and lets the whole history of the language roll off its back.
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You always have a certain affinity to the programming you watch from the age of six, ... where your consciousness is formed, until high school, and anything that comes after that will be positioned in your psyche in a different way.
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From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures ù and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside ù if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.
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Since these competitions can also lend themselves to television broadcasts, there is no reason to believe that we may not see more organized competitions in the future, ... If television can figure out how to make playing cards interesting, it should certainly be able to do so with video games.
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There is certainly some award-show fatigue. I lost count a few years ago of all of them.
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How television and the culture are absorbing Katrina is certainly different than how they absorbed Sept. 11. Four years ago, all culture was put on pause. But people have continued to watch comedies and dramas and reality shows throughout, even when things were at their grimmest.
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When all the smoke is cleared, the way the evening news is done after (NBC's Tom) Brokaw, Rather and (ABC News's Peter) Jennings will look very similar to how it looked before -- a single anchor reading the news, passing it to reporters who will do little pieces.
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The star approval in OK! makes it less sleazy on one level and therefore less interesting.
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These are the things that make the Oscars fun.
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Elvis Presley Ate Here' is the cultural equivalent of 'George Washington Slept Here', ... Every time a place makes a claim that Elvis ate there, it becomes a memorial to his memory, to his life and to his legend.
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Even if it stopped now, its combination of longevity and quality has never been matched, ... is one of the great comic creations. ... He's complex in his own lack of complexity.
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Even Candy Land (a child's game invented in 1949) has a special anniversary edition. Old-fashioned board games are enjoying a real renaissance.
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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.
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There simply are not a lot of really good movies that people were interested in. Every time a new element enters the field -- movies have to be better to attract people.