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...society, connected with the audience on many levels. We all turned an eye inward on our own humanity while we fixed our eyes outward on the exploits of 16 strangers on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. For instance, didn't the tribal decision to kick off Sonja, 63, and B.B., 64, early in the competition make you feel a little better about incessantly honking at that poor old man who took a couple seconds too long in the crosswalk? Didn't the wacky exploits of Brown graduate Greg convince you the liberal Ivy League university could...
Survivor: The Ultimate Game does, however, provide viewers addicted to the series with some interesting facts not revealed during the show's 13-week stint. Everyone knew that Richard was gay, but so was Sonja, who was the first castaway voted off the island after Richard, originally the target of a secret Tagi alliance among the women, garnered sympathy after coming out. Pre-school teacher Gretchen, with an I.Q. of 142, was so beloved by the organizers that the crew came out of the bushes and hugged her when she was voted off. The organizers did not feel the same...
...Rich said, "I could. Almost immediately." But my victory was squashed when Tina Cassidy from the Boston Globe asked Rich to elaborate on his pre-high school life. So when Josh got his turn, he took on the heretofore unexplored topic of cannibalism: "Was it difficult choosing to eat Sonja in the second episode?" Rich asked to have Josh disconnected. There was a short struggle, and I heard a dial tone from his office...
...they sat down, the men and women who played B.B., Colleen, Dirk, Gervase, Greg, Gretchen, Jenna, Joel, Kelly, Ramona, Richard, Rudy, Sean, Sonja, Stacey and Susan on Wednesday nights all summer, and talked to Bryant Gumbel. And when he turned to the camera and spoke low and lugubrious - "We think you'll be interested in what they have to say," or some such - it suddenly seemed like the hour of "Survivor" nobody needed...
...Sonja looked like Glenn Close. Colleen could have used a good nature-ing up, and Kelly looked like she was wearing somebody else's hair, as did Gretchen. Sean looked like a desperate actor trying to get famous somehow - which of course he is now. And Dirk.... Was that dude actually on the show...