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News Editors: Stephanie K. Clifford '00, Joshua H. Simon '00Night Editor: Caitlin E. Anderson '00 Assistant Night Editors: Jordana R. Lewis '02, Tova A. Serkin '02 Feature Editor: David A. Fahrenthold '00 Story Editors: Georgia N. Alexakis '00, Gregory S. Krauss '00, Andrew K. Mandel '00 Design Editors: Michael S. Papish '02, Nancy M. Tran '02 Sports Editors: Amy E. Ooten '01, Richard A. Perez '00 Editorial Editor: Noah D. Oppenheim '00, Stephen E. Sachs '02 Photo Editors: Debbie J. Lee '00, Lauren P. Malan '02 Business Editors: Adam S. Cohen '01, Nickolay T. Boyadjiev '01 Online Editor...
Note: EDtv isn't copycat filmmaking, exactly. The Howard film--written, with their usual comic clarity, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel--is a version of the 1994 Quebec farce Louis 19, le roi des ondes. But Hollywood, temporarily bereft of original ideas, has become fascinated by its power to create and corrupt. It looks at O.J., Monica, the rubes and rhubarbs on Jerry Springer and asks, with a mixture of self-accusation and self-awe, What have we done...
...fact, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I was scared. I was frightened. I was a master of synonyms. Panicked, I called comedian Howie Mandel. Of all the germophobes I'd heard about, Mandel seemed the most grounded. He'd had a guesthouse built so he can live there when his kids get sick. He spent much of the 1980s putting surgical gloves over his head and blowing them up with his nose as part of his act--probably just so he could write off his huge purchases of surgical gloves. And perhaps strangest of all, he refused...
Before we talked, Mandel kept me on hold for 20 seconds while he Lysoled his phone. He had not heard of the Killer Germ. "Are you calling to ruin my life?" he yelled. Then he explained how his precautions were actually logical responses to real risks. I found myself agreeing with him until I noticed the amount of times he used the phrase mucous membrane...
...getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel against the Killer Germ, he'll have to have me as a guest on his syndicated talk show...