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Reality-show hosts are half devil, half angel, tempter and comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis...
With the debuts this week of NBC's Darwinian, trash-talking quiz show The Weakest Link and UPN's blind-dates-in-bondage series Chains of Love, you can expect to hear cries that TV has finally gone too far. (Again!) But reality-TV critics and fans alike fail to see that the shows are really tiny morality plays. Underneath the sleaze are sermons illustrating simple, school-primer virtues. You may watch for the bikinis and backstabbing, but everything you need to know about life you can learn from reality...
...says that she has found living and working with the same person "24/7" difficult, and that Reckoning deals with that strain. "In the past, music has been a way that I've had to empower myself," says DiFranco. "Reckoning is about 'How do you show yourself at your weakest?'" On one song, the casually jazzy So What, DiFranco sings about a doomed relationship: "Who's gonna take the call/ when you find out that the road ahead/is painted on a wall?" On Marrow, she sings about emotional frustration: "And what do I do with all these letters/that I wrote...
...same night that “The Weakest Link” bored audiences around the country, Michael Jackson gave us all another dose of the heebie-jeebies when he announced that he’ll reunite with the Jackson 5 for an MTV concert in September. This concert, incidentally, is to celebrate… himself. Yes, yes, the self-appointed King of Pop is holding the bash to commemorate his lasting “thirty years as a solo artist.” Who holds concerts to celebrate their own longevity? Sigh. Michael can try his darndest to turn back...
...show us that an old dog can learn new tricks. She announced concert tour dates on Tuesday for the “Drowned World” tour that will cover Europe and the States during the summer. But the catch, of course, is that where “The Weakest Link” and “Michael’s Tribute to Himself” can be seen for free on a tube near you, getting tix to a Madonna concert is a slightly more complicated enterprise. Sigh. The good stuff comes at a hefty price...