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Luke C.D. Stein...
...Joel Stein...
...interactivity is very merchandise friendly, but most people think viewers tuned in in the first place simply because of all those zeroes the show gives away. "The drama on television at this point is so pitifully synthetic that the only real drama is on the quiz show," says Ben Stein, the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, Comedy Central's second highest-rated program. "People are terribly keyed up. The people I shake hands with after each round, their hands are soaking wet. I've seen grown men, repeatedly, cry after shows. And that's only...
...successful formula of big-money quiz shows. The new ones give away millions to people who know which Presidents' faces appear on different dollar bills. (The most candid of these shows is called Greed.) The likable and funny fellow who is host of Win Ben Stein's Money may turn out to be the symbolic spokesperson of the age. He challenges contestants to match his wealth of information and simultaneously implies that education for its own sake is preposterous. If you're so smart--Stein asks merely by existing--why aren't you rich...
...world's passage into the third millennium after Christ proved to be more celebratory than alarming, as Joel Stein notes in his story accompanying the magazine's photographic commemoration of the turn of the century. That was certainly clear to those of us who worked through New Year's Eve into the early hours of New Year's Day. TIME's headquarters overlooks part of the Times Square area, and every now and then, as we monitored the world, we looked out our windows to see the crowds massing, waiting for the famous ball to drop...