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...been picked up for another season) for best reality competition. And celebrities from American Idol and Survivor turned up to give out marginal awards and introduce the accountants. But in an awards ceremony largely run by people who made their living in scripted TV, reality gets shafted hardware-wise. The Emmys are a commercial broadcast, so why not recognize a genre of TV that viewers are actually choosing to watch? Who, after all, wouldn't tune in to watch awards for Smarmiest Host or Best Elimination Ceremony...
...Zero?a grim compilation of letters written in captivity, plaintive testaments and fierce counterblasts of a wretched Untermensch that came to Australia in leaky boats or suffocating containers looking for a lucky break they were almost always denied. Though normally a travel publisher, Lonely Planet has lent its worldly-wise imprimatur to this book in order to give the issue greater currency...
...starts with a real team instinct, which is a recipe for success,” he says. “She is prepared to delegate, but will maintain appropriate oversight. She is wise, and she is an excellent listener...
Psychotherapist Kathleen Brehony is not the sort of touchy-feely, self-help author who will teach you how to become your own best friend. But if you can use more companionship in your life, Brehony is a master. Her wise new book, Living a Connected Life, offers helpful tips for people in a society in which sending an e-mail to someone down the hall is the norm. Too busy for relationships? Nonsense, says Brehony. You have as many hours in a day as everyone else. Perfect your small-talk skills, she advises. "It is the conduit through which strangers...
...Angeles. Like Sammy Davis Jr., he was a kid in a family song-and-dance act--Hines, Hines & Dad--and went on to star in a multitude of media: as singer (combining for duets with Luther Vandross), as movie star (swapping moves with Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights, cracking wise with Billy Crystal in Running Scared), as TV actor (playing '30s tap master Bill Robinson in Bojangles) and as Tony-winning Broadway headliner (in Jelly's Last Jam). His greatest gift, however, was in his feet, which hit the amplified floor like Chinese firecrackers, broke from standard 4/4 time into...