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Whatever the reason, Turpin's suicide morbidly underscored the way NBC had been promoting The Contender (previews March 7, 9:30 p.m. E.T., and March 10, 10 p.m. E.T.; regular time, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.): as a reality series with high emotional stakes. Executive producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) says Stallone, whose co-host is boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, advised him to watch Rocky again before making the show. "It's not Rocky's story," Burnett says. "It's [Rocky's girlfriend] Adrian's story...
...Contender is craftily made and more affecting than the campy Survivor and Apprentice. And the boxers seem more earnest and less cynical than most reality shows' camera hogs. The loser of the first fight doesn't seem as if he's about to laugh it off and book a Hollywood agent. "I've been fighting since I was 5 years old," he says. "Where do I go from here...
Even beyond the direct pain inflicted on the survivor, a culture that tacitly condones sexual violence by treating survivors with undue skepticism or denigration and the issue itself with callous indifference creates an atmosphere that affects all of us. Women’s interactions with men are limited by the bounds of caution, as women are always at some level concerned with the possibility of sexual contact occurring against their will. Men are, by virtue of societal silence, left largely clueless as to how to start frank and honest conversation about sex, and occasionally find themselves in situations where they...
...company overhauled its manufacturing process as well. That task fell to an old-timer, Charles Brown, a lean, cerebral 31-year Kodak survivor who is today the chief administrative officer. A chemical engineer, Brown spent much of his career in manufacturing, ultimately developing a lean production system in 1997 that was based on Toyota's acclaimed continuous-improvement approach. He dubbed it the Kodak Operating System. KOS forces managers to look at everything that happens in a plant in terms of waste--waste of time, waste of space and so on. They then analyze every step in a process--down...
...DIED. EPHRAIM KISHON, 80, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and satirist whose novels sold more than 43 million copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren...