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...greatness that is the moment just before a revealed paternity test result, I took a second to realize just exactly what was going on. As much as I tried to rationalize my enjoyment of such spectacles by reasoning that there’s no way that they could be real??people can’t be that dumb or embarrassing—when it came down to it, I was deriving enjoyment from the misery (or in the case of guys who were not the father, the immense joy) of others...
...used to be that writing a book made you a celebrity; now, being a celebrity gets you a book deal. Bookstores abound with middling memoirs that made it through publishing houses because of the author’s name recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real?? books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn’t half bad, though it does have a sex scene (a disturbing thought). A whole bevy of celebrities, from Jodie Foster to Jamie Lee Curtis, have written children’s books. Not all approve...
...character. You know I’m an idiot. I’m willfully ignorant of the stuff that I talk about. Disabuse me of my ignorance! Don’t let me get away with anything,’” Colbert said. “Be real??that’s the best thing you can do.’” He remarked that only “about half” of the interviewees successfully meet that challenge. He also said that his “most challenging” BKAD interview...
...character. You know I’m an idiot. I’m willfully ignorant of the stuff that I talk about. Disabuse me of my ignorance! Don’t let me get away with anything,’” Colbert said. “Be real??that’s the best thing...
...Saudi democracy in a September speech to the UN, even making passing reference to some minor improvements seen in the last few years. “Some of the changes in the Middle East are happening gradually,” he conceded, “but they are real??Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia”—evidence, it seemed, of a country on the right track...