The music is secondary. The real pull is watching people grab for the brass ring. They're climbing the ladder. This is the great American story. |
The Next Action Star and Starlet were bad ideas because you can't deliver that. Even on The Apprentice, you can't turn those people into captains of industry. You can, in fact, say: We're doing a show on the Food Network and whoever wins gets a show on the Food Network. How can we do that? We're the Food Network. These are networks that can do what they promise to do. |
The odds of this happening are just too high to calculate, and I really can't explain it, ... It's strange. It makes you think of a jinx. |
The only difference is that television is such a predominant medium. ... Radio used to have sitcoms and doctor shows and cop shows and game shows and all the different genres, and television wrestled that primary entertainment away from it. But I think in terms of its impact on the medium of radio, yes, this is going to be a very big deal. |
The opportunities exceed the ability of most people, even rabid fans, to consume. Because of that, are people going to quit watching? I don't think so. They can't watch all of them, but they'll watch the ones they're most interested in. |
The peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich is part of the whole Elvis mystique. He wasn't only the king, he was one of us. |
the recipe keeps changing, which is actually what other TV shows have never really accomplished. |
The star approval in OK! makes it less sleazy on one level and therefore less interesting. |
The tape was the key. Without it, no one would believe you. The video is not perfect, a little grainy, but that's what makes it so quaint, so appealing. |
The thing that science fiction does is what nobody on TV does - outside the news. It looks at the enormous issues of equality, war, feminism, racism, international relations - big, big stories ignored by mainstream TV for obvious reasons. Science fiction is the easiest way to deal with it. |
The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life. |
The uniformed cop just ignored him and kept on walking. You could hear the pleading in Smith's voice, asking the officer what he was going to do, saying, 'Look, you can't just ignore this,' and the cop just kept on walking. It was compelling television. |
The way new music combined and recombined was an exciting story, |
Then, all of a sudden, it was big money. It went from small stakes to huge stakes, but at the same time, it was still very challenging. |
There are a lot of people not doing well in their alternative rock acts, who are turning around and looking at their friends in Grateful Dead bands, Elvis tributes, who are getting gigs. There was a demand for the original groups. |