Word: riches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...documentarians--and, yes, magazine writers--selectively edit raw material and get accused of cherry-picking facts and quotes. But on an entertainment show the pressure to deliver drama is high, and the standards of acceptable fudging are shadier. The first season of Laguna Beach, MTV's reality series about rich teens in Orange County, Calif., centered on a love triangle among two girls (LC and Kristin) and a boy (Stephen). The problem, says a story editor who asked not to be named, was that the triangle didn't exist. LC and Stephen, he says, were platonic friends, so the producers...
...almost totally fabricated. More than half said accuracy was not a factor in their enjoyment of reality TV. Fans watch Laguna Beach, for instance, not for facts about LC, Kristin and Stephen's lives but for a gorgeously shot, engrossing story of the envy, entanglements and casual cruelties of rich, hot teenagers. That view of reality TV may veer close to the James Frey "essential truth" defense, but, let's face it, Blind Date does not have quite the same literary aspirations...
NAMED. SHEIK SABAH AL-AHMAD AL-SABAH, 76, liberal-minded and pragmatic Prime Minister of Kuwait; as emir of the oil-rich Persian Gulf state; in Kuwait City. His appointment came after Kuwait's parliament ousted his ailing cousin Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, who had ascended to the throne following the death of the previous emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, two weeks...
...sale. When are American voters going to demand elected leaders who will put the common good of the people above their self-interest? If we keep electing incumbents with FOR SALE signs hanging from their necks, we will get what we deserve: a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. WAYNE JACOBSEN Moorpark, Calif...
...Real It took Perle years. "Embarrassed and occasionally unnerved by my own tendency toward erratic fiscal behavior, I've stubbornly refused to examine it, instead choosing to pin my hopes on that white knight, dream job, unknown dead rich uncle, or winning lottery number," she writes...