Word: burnette
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...hear reports a few weeks ago that actress Kate Hudson had been sought to get a tryout for "Survivor 3." Stranger still that CBS's Les Moonves actually floated the idea of a celebrity edition of "Survivor," a notion that the show's zillionaire producer Mark Burnett seemed to stand behind at the "Survivor 2" post-finale conference call with the press...
...Players: Donovan McNabb, Marvin Harrison, Donovin Darius, Qadry Ismail, Rob Moore, Rob Burnett, Olindo Mare, Gary Anderson, Kevin Johnson...
...Mark Burnett and CBS didn't invent social Darwinism, and Fox's lawyers may be able to wriggle out of this one on universal-themes grounds alone. But what would have happened had they gone the other way, and put the real power in the hands of the drill sergeants...
...felt it my reportorial duty to chat with a cross-section of candidates, and yet I knew I had neither the time nor the tolerance toward the emotionally disturbed to speak to all 2,000. So I took my cue from "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett and tried to interview just 16 competitors who were trying to prove they could survive a Hollywood audition. However I was to find that, like watching the "Survivor" program itself, or eating semi-rancid potato chips when one is starving, it's hard to stop...
There is gambling in Casablanca; there is corruption in Chinatown; and there may be something fishy on Survivor too. A suit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by ex-Survivor contestant STACEY STILLMAN claims show producer Mark Burnett "improperly abused his relationships with the contestants" by persuading Sean Kenniff and Dirk Been to vote her, rather than ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, off the island. Similar charges were leveled last year in The Stingray, a book about the show by investigative reporter Peter Lance. Stillman, seeking unspecified damages, says a letter from Been to Burnett exists to support...