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...Stuart: the huge popularity of reality TV - cheap to produce and capable of provoking the kind of controversy that still hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants. Earlier this year, The Verdict, a BBC reality show, brought together a jury of celebrities, including the novelist, former politician and jailbird Jeffrey Archer, to rule on a fictionalized rape case. It attracted heavy criticism for trivializing a serious subject, and viewing figures were...
...incentives for production of alternative energy and curb our addiction to oil. We need to reduce consumption, recycle and demand that our politicians take action. I am convinced that we will see more debate than substantial change in the near future, but I hope we will not debate the subject to death. Lorenzo Rodriguez, El Paso, Texas...
...everyone agreed, and Prince pushed aside James Cayne of Bear Stearns--the investment bank that started Wall Street's summer of pain when two hedge funds it managed nearly imploded in June--as the subject of the industry's most feverish when-will-he-go talk. Citi was far from alone in its troubles. BofA (profits down 32%) and Wachovia (down 10%) had bad quarters too, as did investment banks Morgan Stanley (down 7%) and Merrill Lynch (which recorded a loss...
...people who think of the playwright as something of an élitist. Ever since his sensational stage debut in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--his absurdist riff on a pair of minor characters in Hamlet--Stoppard has become almost a genre unto himself, taking intellectual, often abstruse subject matter and turning it into challenging yet playful drama. His game, frequently, is the oddball juxtaposition: moral philosophy and gymnastics (Jumpers); Fermat's last theorem and Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James Joyce and Vladimir Lenin (Travesties). "Tom said to me once that he decides on one play, and then...
...beer has been the subject of decades of horrifying mistreatment and ignorance. The proverbial American “cold one”—Bud, Miller, or Beast—is a travesty, an affront to human dignity...