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Schotz, the 41-year-old CEO of LMNOP (Leave My Name Off Productions), corners the freak-show stuff, concocting faster-paced versions of That's Incredible! His Fox series Guinness World Records: Primetime features oddities like worm-eating contests and the world's largest tumor, and his upcoming Fox special World's Most Shocking Medical Videos has footage of a woman's nose being regrown on her forehead. Schotz also makes the more wholesome Kids Say the Darndest Things and Behind Closed Doors with Joan Lunden. Lachman, who not long ago was known for creating Solid Gold and for winning...
Mark McGwire is a total freak. Not because he hits home runs more than 500 ft., or because he has 20-in. biceps. No, he's a freak because he's able to exhale his emotions, making them dissipate before action. He invites his ex-wife and her husband to his Christmas parties. He spoke to reporters even as some of them peeked into his locker and hunted down his ex-wife and past girlfriends. He didn't go after bad pitches, no matter how many pitchers tried to derail his record chase by avoiding the strike zone. Blinded...
Tepper, 26, is one of a growing number of producers who are seeking out that crowd. She has co-produced three shows that have thrived largely on the strength of the younger audience: Freak, John Leguizamo's one-man show that had a successful Broadway run last season; I'm Still Here...Damn It!, Sandra Bernhard's monologue-plus-music, which has just opened on Broadway after a hit engagement downtown; and De La Guarda, a performance troupe from Argentina that has become a hot off-Broadway attraction. Joining them are a batch of new plays making a determined effort...
...tend to overlook (in sizing him up) Gates' basic decency. He has repeatedly been offered a starring role in the circus freak show of American Celebrity, Julius Caesar being offered the Emperor's crown by clamorous sycophants. He has turned it down. He does not make a habit of going on TV to pontificate, free-associate or share his feelings. His wife and young child are largely invisible to the public, which represents a deliberate decision on the part...
...unacceptable and questionable perspectives his does. White Boy shows a oversized white boy, who he compared to the excessively large pharaohs in Egyptian art. In his version of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the hunchback is black and Colescott pointedly asked the audience, "What happens when you make a freak black? Does he become more of a freak?" These works would have been easier to appreciate had Colescott simply articulated the implied irony. But he did not. Instead he proceeded with his provocative comments. Emergency Room symbolizes the United States, a place where nothing gets done until things have gone...