Word: moles
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...includes rapper MC Hammer, Motley Crue's Vince Neil and Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris--E! network's Star Dates sends where-are-they-now stars on blind dates with noncelebs, many of whom, natch, have show-biz aspirations of their own. ABC's reality game show Celebrity Mole Hawaii casts seven quasi-stars, including Spin City's Michael Boatman, Suddenly Susan's Kathy Griffin and Erik von Detten (who co-starred in ABC's doomed Dinotopia for about five seconds) to complete adventure challenges hampered by one player who is a secret "mole" working to sabotage them...
THEN THERE'S THE FINANCING. Even minor stars, unlike civilian participants, expect to be paid real money. Celebrity Mole permits its winner to keep the grand prize (up to $250,000), while most celebrity game-show contestants must give their loot to charity. "In all fairness," says Mole executive producer Scott Stone, "we couldn't afford to hire them to do the entire taping"--though he insists that some of the stars played for charity anyway. Not so Griffin: "F___ that! The level of celebrity that will do this show, we need this money!" Butch Patrick (that's Eddie Munster...
...shows are cheaper than scripted series, and a Mole stunt that involves a contestant getting soaked under a waterfall does gain a certain appeal when said contestant is supermodel Frederique van der Wal. Still, reality shows rely on, you know, reality: we watch them to see people's genuine, unrehearsed reactions, even in contrived situations. Can you expect that from people who have spent their lives performing? "You can tell when someone's acting," says Surreal's Carter, pointing to a genuinely moving moment when Neil talks about his daughter's death of cancer. But Abrego wasn't always sure...
...mission is that it will effectively carry out tests in situ on organic matter. If all goes well, the Beagle's robotic paw will scratch and claw at nearby rocks, sniffing for the trace gases, organic compounds and complex chemicals. Soil samples will be dug out using the mole, a robot that can tunnel deep beneath the surface. Any life on Mars, past or present, would leave its chemical imprint - or 'fossil' - inside the rock. Pillinger's team has developed a miniaturized gas analysis package (GAP) to heat up rock and soil in an oven, process the gases released...
Breast implants, liposuction, hair plugs--these are the celebrity surgeries we are excited to hear about. Laser eye surgery is arguably less sexy than mole removal, except perhaps when it comes to Elton John, a man who has made a virtue of his myopia. John claims to have amassed 4,000 pairs of glasses during his career, but now, he says, he's grown weary of specs: "I'm so fed up with 'Where are they?'" he said in a television interview, explaining why he's having the eye procedure done early next year. Look for 4,000 pairs...