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...entertainment show the pressure to deliver drama is high, and the standards of acceptable fudging are shadier. The first season of Laguna Beach, MTV's reality series about rich teens in Orange County, Calif., centered on a love triangle among two girls (LC and Kristin) and a boy (Stephen). The problem, says a story editor who asked not to be named, was that the triangle didn't exist. LC and Stephen, he says, were platonic friends, so the producers played Cupid through montage. LC "would say things about [Stephen] as a friend," says the editor. "[LC] said, 'I just love...
Tony DiSanto, executive producer of Laguna Beach, says the show's story was "enhanced" but genuine. "Stephen and LC were friends, but in the raw footage, you could see an attraction," he says. "Anytime you take anything into the editing room, you are enhancing it and editorializing. But we never make up something that hasn't happened...
...believed that the shows largely reflect what really happened, and 25% of them believed that the programs are almost totally fabricated. More than half said accuracy was not a factor in their enjoyment of reality TV. Fans watch Laguna Beach, for instance, not for facts about LC, Kristin and Stephen's lives but for a gorgeously shot, engrossing story of the envy, entanglements and casual cruelties of rich, hot teenagers. That view of reality TV may veer close to the James Frey "essential truth" defense, but, let's face it, Blind Date does not have quite the same literary aspirations...
...ELECTED. STEPHEN HARPER, 46, economist and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; as the nation's 22nd Prime Minister, ending the 13-year rule of the Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper, with his wife and children on election night, above, moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma. He made ethics in government a plank in his platform, capitalizing on voter exhaustion with incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden Liberals. But because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority, Harper's government, which is expected...
...Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, will deal with unforeseen problems. Jacob A. Frenkel, a former governor of the Bank of Israel who is vice chairman of insurer American International Group, is concerned about increased calls for protectionism, including by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. Most worried of all is Stephen S. Roach, chief economist at U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley who for several years has warned that the U.S.'s borrowing and consumption binge will come to a bad end, including a likely fall in the value of the dollar. The problems haven't gone away even if the dollar remains buoyant...