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...Well, on June 29, Bryant Gumbel, a host of CBS-TV's "The Early Show," did a truculent interview with Robert Knight of the Family Research Council. They were discussing the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Boy Scouts' ban on gay troop leaders. Knight supported the court's decision because keeping gay men out of scoutmaster posts comported with Knight's religious views. Gumbel took the opposite view, and applied his surly, uninteresting mind to cuffing Knight about...
...Bozell, a conservative critic of liberal media biases, has taken out newspaper ads comparing Gumbel's insult to the racist remarks that got Jimmy the Greek fired from CBS years ago. Gumbel, says Bozell, is guilty of religious bigotry. If he is not fired, then at the very least, Gumbel should apologize for what he said. Neither Gumbel nor CBS has done...
...Joel, at least, seems just the kind of guy this wouldn't bother a bit. He's already back in Arkansas, checking out the Paula Joneses, smiling that oily smile and basking in his four or five minutes of fame. The breathless CBS web site even let him depart with some favorable spin, calling the vote "shocking" and discerning a political shift in tribal voting from weeding out the weak to "offing likely winners...
...there? "Big Brother" takes the viewers way past rooting interest, giving the masses a vote on which of a pair of rejects has to leave the CBS lot each week and letting them choose the $500,000 winner from among the final three contestants. (Early guess: In a house that has cameras everywhere, Jordan the exotic dancer and Jamie, Miss Washington 2000, will be among the last to be booted from afar...
...Miramax as the summer wears on. If profits improve, that's great. If not, you've got a whole series of "reality" movies to show next year, complete with images of frantic executives hurling themselves out the first-floor windows of movie-lot bungalows. Hey, if it works for CBS, why not take it to the local Cineplex...