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...endless Bravo advertisements exhort us to “watch what happens.” But the fact is, most of the time, nothing happens, and real people don’t have Larry David there to make that nothing funny. As reality shows catapult their subjects to fame, they also undermine the illusion they create—any life we see depicted is always highly selected, reworked and dressed up to maximize our entertainment. With some good editing and the right background music, anyone’s life can become drama-filled—if only for the moment...
Reality television programs have dealt with this actual reality in a number of ways: They liven up the more mundane moments of everyday life with high-stakes competition, exotic locales, or the prospect of fame, no matter how faint (see: “The Surreal Life”). Some combine all three of these things...
...With his own songs, like "Bump N' Grind," Kelly was hardly shy about his sexual proclivities. In 1994, Kelly married one of his earliest proteges, the singer Aaliyah. She was apparently just 15 years old, but said she was 18; the marriage was annulled. But as Kelly's fame grew, so, too, did word on the street that he liked to prowl suburban shopping malls and even a downtown Chicago McDonald's for young women. Kelly's spokesman, Allan Mayer, told TIME earlier this week: "Look, he used to hang out at the Rock 'N Roll McDonald's - they...
...evaluations and these will be reproduced in the book.” For Venkatesan to point fingers at individuals using supposedly confidential student feedback is not only morally reprehensible, it also hurts her own cause by creating the perception that she is simply capitalizing on her fifteen minutes of fame...
...suddenly turned white-hot in the run-up to the May 7 publication of The Innocent, an autobiographical book by Houellebecq's maman, Lucie Ceccaldi, 83. In it, Ceccaldi calls her boy a liar, impostor, and parasite "ready to do whatever it takes to attain fortune and fame." Excerpts and previews of the tell-all tome have generated major interest in France, as critics and readers alike gaze upon the spectacle of the nation's most famously jaded and cynical Bohemian being ridiculed in public by a mother who admits in disgust: "I don't want to hear about...