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...their own reality shows. In addition to Surreal Life--which also includes rapper MC Hammer, Motley Crue's Vince Neil and Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris--E! network's Star Dates sends where-are-they-now stars on blind dates with noncelebs, many of whom, natch, have show-biz aspirations of their own. ABC's reality game show Celebrity Mole Hawaii casts seven quasi-stars, including Spin City's Michael Boatman, Suddenly Susan's Kathy Griffin and Erik von Detten (who co-starred in ABC's doomed Dinotopia for about five seconds) to complete adventure challenges hampered...
...popularity of this new genre, working with stars who aren't show-biz naifs has some drawbacks. Abrego, who once produced the MTV reality show Road Rules, remembers its restrictive contracts: "The Road Rules kids, they'd have to sign their firstborn away. But these guys, if you don't get the right hair and makeup person to show up, there's trouble." There's the ego massaging, convincing even C-list stars and their agents that the series are not has-been freak shows--shhh, it's our secret! "They had standards," Abrego says. "There were people who said...
Confessions has a pretty high exasperation quotient--partly built in (a practical joke is also an endurance test) and partly from its being at the tired end of a line of movies about weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle...
...show-biz community's idea of reparation is, guess what, mere nostalgia. It revives not the centuries of slavery and abuse but a more recent era of liberal piety, when some suburban whites discovered race shame. It reminds the mass audience that 40 years ago black people were saints--not only for the atrocities they endured but also for the grace with which they bore them...
DIED. ROONE ARLEDGE, 71, pioneering ABC executive whose technical innovations, show-biz flair and fierce competitive drive changed the face of TV news and sports; of complications from cancer; in New York City. Joining ABC Sports as a producer in 1960 and rising to head of the division, he introduced instant replay and slow motion, infused ABC's Olympics coverage with human drama and journalistic rigor, and made Howard Cosell and Monday Night Football national obsessions. Traditionalists were alarmed when the sports guy was named president of ABC News in 1977. But he made the No. 3 news network...