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...appearances, it was just another made-for-TV moment, brought to you by the John Kerry for President campaign: a balmy summer Sunday evening that found the newly official Democratic nominee playing a few carefree innings of softball with fire fighters and autoworkers on a small-town diamond in the heartland. But unknown even to some of Kerry's top aides, something that hadn't been written into the script was quietly taking place inside the luxury campaign bus parked just beyond right field in Taylor, Mich. Secret Service agents were laying secure phone lines, hanging privacy curtains and installing...
...just a matter of construction delays. One facility, for example, was completed well ahead of schedule: the International Broadcasting Center where NBC, the American television network that spent $793 million to secure the Games' U.S. rights, and the other TV networks will coordinate their coverage. Welcome to the made-for-TV Games. An emphasis on televised spectacle at the expense of visitors is not exactly new - it was no accident that in 2000, Sydney's opening ceremony of 7,000 performers, Aboriginal rockers and fireworks artists from five continents became the most watched TV program in Aussie history...
...with you, I've got someone up in Milan who is putting in a good word for me." He pauses, looks around again, and adds: "And I know I've got the face." The bespectacled 39-year-old Neapolitan travel agent - who most definitely does NOT have a made-for-TV mug - can't speak for long. They're about to call his number. Italy's Grande Fratello consistently boasts Europe's highest ratings of any version of Big Brother. And now the program has come to bustling Naples for the first time in search of potential contestants for September...
...able to judge The Reagans fairly--as if anyone really wants to--until it airs next year on Showtime, CBS's pay-cable corporate sibling. But we don't generally look to made-for-TV mini-series for ungilded truth. Remember, if not for scurrilous, insensitive, sensationalized TV movies about the (liberal, Democrat) Kennedys, we would have to clone five Michael Jacksons to fill the holes in the sweeps-stunt calendar. If Americans were going to depend on The Reagans as a history lesson--rather than as a campy Washington version of I Love the 80s--the Republic is doomed...
...Henry and Annie leave their respective spouses, Max (Alexander L. Pasternack ’05) and Charlotte (Stephanie Jaggers), to live with each other. However, once together, they have to deal with betrayal and jealousy—not to mention bad writing, after Brodie gives the couple a made-for-TV script of his life story...