Word: fame
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...working title is Second Chance Idol," Fuller tells TIME during a rare interview in his temporary Los Angeles quarters (he also has a home in London). The plan is to "go to people who have had a taste of fame but, sadly, their candle has been snuffed...
Fuller has become rich by putting fame-hungry performers in front of audiences eager to see them squirm. His web of privately held entertainment companies, known as the 19 Group, is estimated by industry analysts to be worth more than $300 million. But with reality TV looking ripe to go the way of prime-time soap operas and other fads, the genre must evolve to survive. And Fuller knows it. "In England the bubble's already about to burst," he says, even as he oversees Pop Idol's second British series, a global rollout in China, Norway and other countries...
...Naturally, Fuller is planning to create the American Juniors--or the AJs--five U.S. kids ages 8 to 14 whom he will find, groom and turn into a band. The concept might be launched with a song-filled movie about kids at a performing-arts academy--"a cross between Fame and Grease," Fuller says...
Later, Bertagna knew Cloney through the Varsity Club’s Hall of Fame Committee. Cloney continued coming to the meetings until two months before his death...
DIED. SID GILLMAN, 91, inventive Hall of Fame football coach for the Los Angeles Rams, the Houston Oilers and the San Diego Chargers; in Los Angeles. Among the first to analyze game film to improve his players, Gillman helped create the West Coast offense--a pass-heavy strategy later used by top NFL teams...