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Lake and her top producers declined to talk with Time, but other hosts eagerly defend the genre. "The closer you get on live, unscripted TV to reality and its raw emotions," says Springer, "the rougher it's going to be . Maybe our show can help people learn to tolerate differences. And maybe we can learn that everybody is capable of pain." Phil Donahue, a 27-year veteran of the talk-show wars, doesn't want to bash the Ricki influence either (even though it has contributed to a decline in his ratings). "I do think there's an awful...
...people appear on these shows? Jerry Springer is as baffled as anyone. He tells of a segment involving a woman who came home and found her husband in bed with her aunt. "It was bad enough that it happened," Springer says, "but they were all there talking about it on national TV! It's hard to see why people do this, but they do." The shows find their guests with newspaper and magazine ads and toll-free numbers flashed onscreen. There is even a National Talk Show Guest Registry, a data base used by many talk shows that lists...
Barbara Tucker, 36, of Alexander City, Alabama, has been on three talk shows to berate her "bitch" of a sister-in-law. She regrets the last time, when she went on Springer's show with several other family members. "We shouldn't have gone on. I got upset on that show. [Afterward] my mother didn't speak to my brother for a long time." Still, she wants to do more: "I like to get out there and priss." Michelle Van Buren, 31, of Olivette, Missouri, went on Geraldo and talked about men who lie and cheat. She admits that...
...into the causes of these disorders. "Canine genetic diseases," he says, "are now being defined at the molecular level, and the mapping of the canine genome is at last under way." Scientists have located the genes that cause muscular dystrophy in golden retrievers, and "shaking pup" syndrome in Welsh springer spaniels. They're working on identifying the genes responsible for failure-to-thrive metabolic problems in giant Schnauzers, bleeding disorders in Scottish terriers and Doberman pinschers, and the hereditary deafness that affects about 30% of Dalmatians. And they believe hip dysplasia, the crippling condition that afflicts Jake the golden retriever...
...standards as part of its registration process. Rather than wait for that step, individual- breed clubs are taking their own action. At least three Rottweiler clubs have ruled that dogs missing more than one tooth, which can be a sign of a genetic defect, may not be bred. English springer spaniel owners are encouraging one another not to breed dogs with temperament problems; they want to eliminate what they call the "rage syndrome," a type of brain seizure that makes some dogs lose control. And the Portuguese Water Dog Club requires breeders who advertise in its magazine to submit copies...