Word: murrayism
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...example, have you ever wondered how many of the 58 fellows associated with Radcliffe are male? One, who is in the Murray Research Center. How about the number of the 18 Yenching Fellows are female? None...
...years ago, MTV made the uncharacteristic move of approaching two television producers significantly past the age of 25 to concoct a nighttime soap opera. What partners Mary-Ellis Bunim (a veteran of Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns) and Jon Murray, both in their 40s, came up with -- The Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery...
...artificial and contrived. Indeed, the show employs a story department -- a team of three writers who outline a plot for each week's 22-min. episode, culled from hundreds of hours of filmed footage. "We storyboard each scene," says Bunim, "just like in a prime-time series." Notes Murray: "This isn't Frederick Wiseman, where you're going to get a long, incoherent documentary with way more than you want...
...Real World is addictive television, and it has become MTV's top-rated series. The success of the show has given rise to another Murray-Bunim creation, Road Rules, which premiered on MTV last week and will air on Monday nights throughout the summer. This series follows another group of carefully selected young strangers, this time placed in a Winnebago and told to drive around the country looking for clues to direct them from one destination to the next. In some ways, Road Rules seems a direct response to criticisms of The Real World: though edited in the manner...
...officials and Sacramento, Calif. police squelched speculation thatthe Unabomberwas caught on a police videotape. The Los Angeles Times reported today that in April, police had taped bystanders in the area where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed by a bomb made by the terrorist. The man in question, who hurried away when he realized he was being photographed, bears a slight resemblance to the police sketch of the bomber, which itself is based on a brief sighting in 1987. But police now say the unidentified man appears to be about15 years older than the bomber is believed...