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BattleBots got a huge boost when Jay Leno--a longtime machine buff and tinkerer with an extensive motorcycle collection--began plugging it on the Tonight Show, and last fall he became the show's first celebrity contestant. Chin-Killa, built and operated for Leno by NBC technicians, was fronted with a metal facsimile of Leno's face and used his legendary protruding chin as a battering ram to defeat Ginsu, a rival BattleBot wielding a nasty set of rotary saw blades. "I like anything that rolls and explodes," Leno says. "And it seems like a good outlet for kids...
Nearly 50,000 people--more than eight times as many as answered the first call--applied. The resulting cast, ranging from a retired cop to a chef, is noticeably younger (the oldest is 53) and more buff than its predecessor. "There is a sexuality to this show that S1 didn't have," says Probst. "People chop down trees in bikinis." And, he says, having watched S1, they all come to the outback with a strategy in mind: "This second group would squash [S1 winner] Richard Hatch like a gnat; that's how much more prepared they are. And they think...
...They eat all parts of the cow," Probst confides coyly. "We give the contestants the staples of the outback, and that means all parts of the cow, raw. But we cut it up for them." With 14 fresh episodes of last year's biggest pop-culture hit and a buff, bikinied cast, CBS thinks it has the raw, red meat its audience wants. Let's hope it didn't go bad in that hot Australian...
...know how many women were present at the pitch meeting.) And one of the few entertaining moments came when the male halves of the couples failed to get that. Allowed to banish whichever of the Mr. Sluts seemed to be the biggest threat, they decided to purge a buff guy "who looks like Sisqo...
GOLDEN OLDIES You might not expect to see an 85-year-old at an 'N Sync concert, but researchers in Italy find that elderly folks with dementia can suddenly develop surprising tastes in music. In one case, a classical-music buff began to enjoy, at full blast, an Italian pop band he had once derided as "mere noise." Explanation? Lesions in the brain may damage areas involved in music perception. Or perhaps dementia simply changes one's attitude toward novelty...