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We’ve gone from shielding children’s eyes from the awfulness of Jerry Springer during its prime in the late 1990s to a campaign against violent video games to the famed censorship crusade of former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell in the aftermath of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “incident” three years ago to decrying “Heroes,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn | Title: Love It, or Leave It Alone | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...gaudy theatricality that would become the norm in pop culture: orchestrated hysteria that was either fake-real or real-fake. On this level, Brown was the godfather, not of soul, but of heavy metal and glam rock, of Rocky Horror and Dreamgirls, of the WWF and Jerry Springer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: James Brown | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

...your readers on your Unboomed blog asked when you and Andrew are going to appear on Jerry Springer. Is it really that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Amanda Congdon | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

...words are foreign, but the humor in it is completely accessible,” says Spillane-Hinks. “[The action] could take place in Iowa; it could take place on the stage of Jerry Springer. The fundamental desires of human pettiness and beauty are universal. Not specific to one place...

Author: By Mollie K. Wright, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Playboy of the Western World" | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...house, to be with their peers and away from their parents. Directors also ignore the complaints about moviegoing--the glop on the floor, the indifferent projection, the half an hour of ads and in the row behind you a nattering couple rehearsing their Jerry Springer act. No, to directors, moviegoing is an almost religious act: a Mass experience. You walk into a cathedral, feel your spirit soar with hundreds of other communicants and watch the transubstantiation of images into feelings. The audience becomes a community, the movie the Communion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The Movies? (Again?) | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

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