Word: fleiss
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...communal experience--what network TV does best, but sitcoms and dramas haven't done since Seinfeld and Twin Peaks. (When was the last time CSI made you call your best friend or holler back at your TV?) "Reality has proven that network television is still relevant," says Mike Fleiss, creator of the Bachelor franchise...
...after all, how better to improve America's image than to send a stud to other countries to defile their women?). But all of them make you sit up and pay attention. "I like to make a show where people say, 'You can't put that on TV,'" says Fleiss. "Then...
...prospective beaus. (The lucky lady is Trista Rehn, 29, the former Miami Heat dancer who finished second on The Bachelor--or won, depending on how you define success.) But is it a coincidence that these shows started off with women as their objects? Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss doesn't think sexual double standards will hurt Bachelorette--"It's 2002. A woman can do anything a man can do, and on TV too"--but he says it would have been harder to cast men for the show if they hadn't already seen the comely Rehn: "She's a known quantity...
...Heidi Fleiss, madam to the stars, provided a little entertainment to the attendees of BookExpo, with her soon-to-be self-published book, "Pandering." In a booth decorated like a bordello, with tiger-skin rugs, red brocade walls and comely young "models" with bare midriffs, Fleiss advertised her forthcoming coffee table book. (We're still trying to imagine the person for whose coffee table this is intended.) The book is described by Pages magazine as "a multimedia collage, a cultural document, a pop-art concoction, a witty roman a clef, incorporating court documents, pages from Fleiss' personal and business diaries...
...often synonymous with popularity in our skewed social scene. We love to despise, and the despised revel in the glory of their infamy. And, so, Pomey and Gomes may have triumphed after all: they tainted our noble institution, a la Monica Lewinsky, they skirted the law, a la Heidi Fleiss, and they arrogantly believed that they could get away with it, a la O.J. Simpson, to become genuine household—or at least dormitory—names. They’re not just “almost famous” anymore, and the trial hasn’t even...