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...Week 5 of "Survivor 2," the main story lines were the conflicts. The reward challenge for blankets, personal hygiene supplies and spices (spices?) was won by the juggernaut Kucha tribe ("Thank God we won the reward challenge so we can bathe Kimmi," said Mike.) But a threatened "meltdown by the Colbster" was thankfully avoided when Ogakor outraced Kucha in the rats-in-a-maze immunity challenge. Not a thrilling watch, that. (I still say they should have left behind somebody at each medal, and called them all in, in proper order. But then again, viewers had the aerial camera...
...profile in this month's chapter of Innovators--the storytellers--are the ones bringing even further change. Once novels were things on paper. Now--blink--they're online. The "marginal" characters--blacks, Asians, gays, Latinos--have moved to center stage. Even reality has become another story. What is Survivor if not Cast Away with more people and no volleyball...
There is gambling in Casablanca; there is corruption in Chinatown; and there may be something fishy on Survivor too. A suit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by ex-Survivor contestant STACEY STILLMAN claims show producer Mark Burnett "improperly abused his relationships with the contestants" by persuading Sean Kenniff and Dirk Been to vote her, rather than ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, off the island. Similar charges were leveled last year in The Stingray, a book about the show by investigative reporter Peter Lance. Stillman, seeking unspecified damages, says a letter from Been to Burnett exists to support...
...Minutes Ratings slipping after 23 straight years in Top 10. Lucky CBS has another Survivor...
...LAZYBONES The character he played in movies was honed on radio. As Giddins notes, Crosby enjoyed the most sustained radio stardom of any network performer, 1931-61. For more than a decade he fronted the "Kraft Music Hall," which had a bigger audience in the '30s than "Survivor" has today. Fifty million listeners a week: relative to the population then and now, those are Super Bowl numbers...