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...reality phenomenon gets compared a lot with The Truman Show, but this version of it is more like 1983's The King of Comedy, in which would-be comedian Rupert Pupkin (Robert DeNiro), an obsessive fan of late-night talk-show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis), kidnaps his idol to get a shot at doing his stand-up act on TV. It's no longer enough for Pupkin to admire Langford; he must become him. If Pupkin had just waited 20 years, he could have got a show on E! network. E!'s The Michael Essany Show, starting in March...
...newest member of Harvard’s public relations team explained the increased interest as a natural phenomenon...
...universally been observed that tobacco lessens the appetite and enables people to go for long periods without food. The 1988 Surgeon General’s Report acknowledged this phenomenon. The American adult smoking rate is half of what it was in 1960 and, not surprisingly, the incidence of severe weight problems has more than doubled. Diabetes and obesity-related cancers have also increased, to a large extent, due to the decline in smoking rates. Many Americans now resort to dangerous and costly surgery to treat obesity...
...STARTER MARRIAGE A much discussed new book documents the phenomenon: when couples in their 20s and early 30s divorce after five years or less without having kids...
WATKINS: I wouldn't not do it. [But] what I really failed to grasp was the seriousness of the emperor-has-no-clothes phenomenon. I thought leaders were made in moments of crisis, and I naively thought that I would be handing [Enron chairman] Ken Lay his leadership moment. I honestly thought people would step up. But I said he was naked, and when he turned to the ministers around him, they said they were sure he was clothed...