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...Partisanship does not belong in the classroom, but one does not stop being a citizen when one becomes a teacher,” wrote Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins, a Kerry contributor, in an e-mail message...
Despite having no background in prime-time entertainment, Zucker was dispatched in late 2000 to Burbank, Calif., to help re-energize the network, which had failed to recognize the explosive appeal of reality TV. Within a short time, Zucker was doing what many observers say he does best: putting a new spin on a proven concept and promoting the heck out of it. He generated two hits in the gross-out fest Fear Factor and The Apprentice. "NBC thought reality TV was beneath them," says Steve Friedman, Zucker's producing predecessor at Today. "[He knew] that you can never...
...much more to know about network TV than that. There is an old saying that it is wiser to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally, and it's just a shame that whoever coined it did not live long enough to get a big corner office in Burbank. Even NBC's unconventional moves this year are conventional. "Father of the Pride," an expensive, computer-animated sitcom about a family of lions in Siegfried and Roy's Vegas revue, comes from the people who brought you "Shrek" and "Shrek 2," which puts in the great network tradition of From the Makers...
...Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins who accompanied Kirby to some of his events in Hong Kong, said that the attendees were generally “people who have been strong supporters of Harvard and the Asia Center in particular...
...well at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in two days, so he's going to finish all nine holes. Slowly. The closest he comes to saying something printable about his golf game in the two-hour, self-hatred-fueled, 21-over-par tour of Burbank's Lakeside Golf Club is--while blowing an easy putt--"Everybody sucks." If you, like much of America, enjoy seeing Romano beleaguered by his parents, wife and kids on his TV show, you should see him on the golf course...