Word: romers
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...better and worse, VTV provides something many sitcoms and dramas don't. Surprises, for instance. "It's like a baseball game," says Paul Romer, the Dutch executive producer and creator of Big Brother. "Even when the game isn't interesting, you wait and stay because the next hit could be a home run." True, arguments over who's hogging the rat meat are probably not what Aristotle had in mind when conceiving the Poetics. And producers can contrive conflict, such as Survivor's races and bug-eating contests, not to mention its million-dollar endgame. (Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen...
...decor, says creator Romer, is intentional. The hope is that the "houseguests" will decorate their prison themselves. But if anyone wanted to put a warm, fuzzy face on VTV, Big Brother is not it. (In fact, Romer comes off rather like Christof, the controlling, vaguely European creator played by Ed Harris in The Truman Show.) The participants, to be chosen this week, will have no privacy and no respite; a 24-hr. website will stream video from selected cameras in the house. "When you walk through a city, you look through windows and wonder who is living there," says Romer...
...ROMER: Chancellor, that is an answer I don't have yet. It needs to be removed from the scene...
...ROMER: Part of my effort is trying to explain to my family that I'm not certifiably crazy. People say, "Why are you doing this?" The simple answer is: 712,000 students...
...ROMER: Yes, I know. But nobody believes you when you use that--so you don't get into...