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...sounds like the premise for a reality show: Get a young, smart, cocky, rule-breaking guy and install him at the helm of a major but floundering network and see what he shakes out. But if this was Survivor: Network, then Ben Silverman's torch was just snuffed...
...American screens. The same year he was hired away from Reveille to NBC, two of the shows he had helped create, The Office and Ugly Betty, were nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series, a rare feat. He had a hand in the genesis of such juggernauts as Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. (See TIME's television covers...
...count Berlusconi out yet. Perennial challengers like parliament Speaker Gianfranco Fini on the right and former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema on the left, have largely lost credibility in the face of their opponent's political savvy. Italian politics is beginning to look like a season of Celebrity Survivor. And not only is Berlusconi the reigning champion of this reality show, he is also its executive producer...
...example you use in the book is singer Kylie Minogue, a famous, single, middle-aged woman who gets hounded by the media despite being a cancer survivor and top-selling artist. The American version of Minogue might be Jennifer Aniston. There is always something about them and their relationships in the news. What is your take on that? It's incredibly tough being single past a certain age because there's no doubt that we live in a culture where people still think you're not quite a whole woman if you haven't got a man to validate your...
...weeks, Millvina was the Titanic's youngest survivor. She once lamented that the title prevented her from lying about her age. But she became the public face, and eventually the last survivor, of history's worst maritime tragedy...