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...program now, rather than in 2010. It would also make it more difficult to push on to the Moon and Mars, let alone finish the Space Station. "If we fail to complete the space station, it will adversely affect our credibility with future international partners," says NASA administrator Michael Griffin. Space modules from Japan and the European Union are already at the Kennedy Space Center, waiting for the space shuttle to carry the sophisticated, multi-billion dollar laboratories to the Space Station...
Mandel's sleazy, Luciferian Deal persona is not exactly friendly, but it befits a show about sex, greed and temptation. And it's a sign of how hosting has changed since the Beat the Clock era. Says Merv Griffin, the former talk-show host and now billionaire talk- and game-show mogul: Time was, "you hired an M.C. who every mother-in-law would love." But in the reality-TV era, talk and game shows allow, if not require, more edge. We've gone from Bill Cullen's genial cheerleading to Gordon Ramsay's four-letter culinary arias on Hell...
...coiffed orangutan could do. By which measure Ryan Seacrest is the greatest TV personality who has ever lived. "You've got to be able to have the wind knocked out of your sails, like when Simon attacks Ryan, and bounce back," says Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe. Ur-host Griffin--who once hired Seacrest for a failed game show but is not a producer of Idol--gushes over Seacrest's stage-managing of the live show, whiplashing from moments of snark to heartbreak to comedy faster than you can say Seacrest out! "Oh, boy, he's terrific," Griffin says...
...America and New Zealand. "Although a glossary of Australian idiom is provided in the program," noted the New York Times in 1988, "the pain and burdens Mr. Gow's characters carry with them really need no translation." And as a 20th anniversary staging by the Queensland Theatre Company and Griffin (which returned the play to its stage birthplace in Sydney last week) makes clear, the magic still carries. Under Gow's own direction, his characters effortlessly take on the weight of the world?and spirit audiences away...
Actually, that’s just the goal of Stewie Griffin, a baby on MacFarlane’s hit cartoon “Family Guy” whose head is shaped like a football and whose voice sounds like that of a British-accented autocrat...