Word: biz
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...recipe for show-biz success: have a unique talent. John Holmes, a lanky, couldn't-be-more-ordinary guy from Ohio, had a 13-in. penis. That was enough in the early '70s to make him the poster boy of the burgeoning porn-movie industry, and in 1997 the subject of the film Boogie Nights. But Holmes' life, as depicted in this chatty nonporn documentary, was weirder than that star-is-porn fiction. He snitched to the cops about his co-stars, pimped his underage mistress, was tried for complicity in a drug-world massacre and kept making sex films...
...Carl Jeffers is a freelance writer and political essayist. He is a regular feature editorial contributor to the Seattle Times and Biz Magazine, and can be reached at cjintel@juno.com
...interviews and required journalists visiting the set to sign legal agreements not to reveal certain news. (TIME turned down a visit under those conditions.) Control of the cast: the Survivors can be fined $5 million if they spill the beans, and CBS has ironfisted control over their show-biz futures of a kind known to few besides boy-band recruits and '30s movie stars. Control of the spoils: the series is a brilliantly conceived marketing device used to promote the CBS schedule, from Bryant's Early Show to Dave's Late Show, and it has advertising built right into...
...painstakingly cast as those in any Hollywood blockbuster. And sequels are tough. The first season of MTV's The Real World was an unusual if sometimes precious social experiment with an eclectic group of youth. The second was packed with annoying prima donnas dying to break into show biz. Who wants to watch a cast of 16 scheming Richards--or worse, 16 Gregs, whipping out coconut phones (eucalyptus phones?) in hopes of becoming breakout stars...
...well they cash in will largely be up to CBS. The first group of Survivors got a taste of post-Survivor show biz, mainly on shows from CBS or its Viacom siblings, including JAG, Becker, Nash Bridges and UPN's Freedom. But the network retains control over their availability. Jenna Lewis and Gervase Peterson had to turn down $10,000 to open a Best Buy retail store, for fear of alienating sponsor Target. Even Hatch was denied the chance to be a host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and CBS kiboshed his plans for a Survivor book. "Basically...