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...Number of applicants for Survivor II, in contrast to 6,100 for the first series...
...that Survivor is over, what will we watch? The networks are doing their best to translate other foreign "reality" shows to American tastes: ABC has picked up Britain's Jailbreak (10 "prisoners" under 24-hr. surveillance try to escape for big money), and NBC has locked up Holland's Chains of Love (one person chained to a quartet of the opposite sex). But we found some gems they may have overlooked...
...real journalism came to an ugly end in L.A. last week around the fourth time I said, "I'm going to stay by the pool and have one more drink. I'll catch Al Gore's speech on television." Upon returning to New York, I found myself assigned the Survivor story. It ended up, though, that I kind of missed last Wednesday's big finale episode. And I also missed all the Wednesdays before that. I don't foresee keeping this reality-show beat very long either. In two weeks I figure I'll be back to my normal assignment...
Luckily, the rest of America's news team was dedicated to the Survivor story. In fact, reporters were having trouble distinguishing the results of a four-month-old, prerecorded television show from actual live news. CBS cast its local-news anchors in a deserted island set with tiki torches. And because CBS's news shows could monopolize the newsmakers created by its entertainment division, the other networks had to be pretty creative in coming up with folks to talk about the CBS show. NBC's Today show booked Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. That...
...Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel kicked it off by asking if Rich saw parallels between Survivor and corporate life. Then I asked, "Rich, could you tell right away that Darva wasn't in it for the long haul?" Rich said, "I could. Almost immediately." But my victory was squashed when Tina Cassidy from the Boston Globe asked Rich to elaborate on his pre-high school life. So when Josh got his turn, he took on the heretofore unexplored topic of cannibalism: "Was it difficult choosing to eat Sonja in the second episode?" Rich asked to have Josh disconnected. There...