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...Viacom network was not an option. This year in the coveted post-Super Bowl time slot, CBS showcased not a new drama or sitcom but its reality series Undercover Boss. (The premiere attracted 38.6 million viewers, the most for a post-Super Bowl show since Survivor: The Australian Outback in 2001.) In March, Jerry Seinfeld returns to NBC - as producer of the reality show The Marriage Ref. (See the top 10 skanky reality TV shows...
...started committing significant funds to tribal research and education projects. This is happening in tandem with recent grass-roots efforts to defend native tongues. "There are signs of a growing global movement to revitalize these languages - and in unlikely places, from inner cities in North America to the Australian Outback," says Harrison...
...three decades since Gibson first cruised the postapocalyptic outback as Mad Max, he's forged a wayward career as one of Hollywood's top moneymakers. He fronted a couple of burly action-film franchises (three splendid Mad Max movies; four shoddy, popular Lethal Weapons). Ten of his films earned more than $100 million from 1989 to 2002, back when that was real money. His Scots epic Braveheart won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. That was just Gibson's second film as director; his third, The Passion of the Christ, in 2004, was the all-time top-grossing...
...Olympics in Seoul, torchbearers donned traditional Korean clothing to celebrate the nation's heritage. Twelve years later, on the way to Sydney, an Aboriginal field -hockey star kicked off the domestic leg of the relay from Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the heart of the Australian outback. (See photos of the Olympic torch in Europe...
PETER WILSON, a tourist in Sydney, where one of the worst dust storms in 70 years shrouded the city in an orange fog. An estimated 5 million tons of dust were blown in from the drought-stricken Australian outback by strong winds...