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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fanfare--or at least as much fanfare as could be drummed up for programs built around former stars of Beverly Hills, 90210 and The Partridge Family--only four remain; all are struggling. Even the more established shows have seen their ratings fall. Ricki Lake, whose success prompted the current batch of trash-talking clones, has seen her ratings fall 10% since 1994. Rivera's numbers have dropped even more steeply, 20%, which may indicate that his conversion is not 100% altruistic. Other shows in similar straits--including Mark Walberg's and Jerry Springer's--either have announced or are considering...
...chlorofluorocarbon sprays. Some arrivals could not take the puckish hint that this was a time for public-policy grinds to blow off steam, but others fell right into the outlaw spirit. "I always smoked when I was pregnant," announced G. Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks at the bar cheered as the jukebox played the Eagles' Get Over It, a slam against self-discovery: "Bitch about the present and blame it on the past./ I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little a----." Up at Renaissance, things were...
...Noonan credit much of its success to veteran animal trainer Karl Lewis Miller--"a genius," the director says, at bringing out the character of his charges. Miller and his staff raised 60 pigs by hand to gain their trust. It took 26 weeks to educate the first batch, by which time they had outgrown their optimal cuteness; the training was eventually shortened to 13 weeks. In all, 48 pigs appeared onscreen as Babe...
...What would happen if the fashion editors took the initiative and cleaned up their act, much the way Conda Nast Traveler rewrote the rules for travel magazines in 1987 by refusing to allow its writers to accept free trips? Would the editorial content change dramatically? Would a new batch of designers suddenly crop up in the pages of Vogue? Probably not. But until this stubborn culture of big and small favors is dispensed with, readers will never have a chance to see what a difference that would make...
...producers and hosts of the new batch of shows seem unconcerned about any negative impact of their efforts. When Miller was hired as host of The Other Side, he recalls, "I made a deal with them. I said, 'You keep any sleazy stuff out, and I'll do all the weird stuff you want.'" Miller has obviously kept his end of the bargain. --With reporting by Hunter Whitney/Los Angeles and Lawrence Mondi/New York