Word: interview
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be a very clear statement by each person about whom he or she really doesn't like." The rejects--the Piggies in this reality-TV Lord of the Flies--won't know why they were dumped until the show airs, but Survivor's camera crews will continually interview members about the group dynamics and conflicts, much as MTV's voyeuristic epics Real World and Road Rules do. ("Ian just never, like, respected my personal needs. He refused to suck the venom out of my leg.") To boost the conflict, producers will also include mini-competitions (raft building, nature...
...wish I could rid myself of the premonition that somebody's going to get killed trying to measure Ron Perelman's waist. In August, Perelman, a billionaire who normally avoids speaking to the press, granted an interview to the New York Times. Apparently trying to alter the widespread public impression of him as a pudgy little bald guy surrounded by glowering security guards, Perelman said, "I do take a fat picture, but I've got a 28-in. waist...
...edge in such matters is not his billions but six or eight inches in the breadbasket? I began to picture such a guy, hunched over his fourth or fifth gin in a cheap saloon. On the bar in front of him is a well-worn copy of the Times interview and a magazine with Ellen Barkin on the cover. The guy is insisting that Ron Perelman does not have a 28-in. waist...
...unprecedented pre-emptive strike. With ABC's 20/20 preparing a segment about his San Diego-based diet empire, Ellis took out a full-page ad in the New York Times and other newspapers, directing readers to a website newsinterview.com where they can see the newsmagazine's full, unedited interview with him, before ABC airs its own snippets...
Ellis claims ABC is preparing an unfairly negative report. "We started giving them medical experts around the country, and they didn't want to interview them," he says. When he was interviewed by correspondent Arnold Diaz, Ellis insisted on making his own videotape. "It was more like a deposition than an interview," says Ellis, who claims ABC is retaliating for a lawsuit he filed against ABC Boston affiliate WCVB, which aired its own critical series on Metabolife in May. "Not only is that false, it's silly," says Eileen Murphy, spokeswoman at ABC, which plans to air the report...