That advancement — is it a shift in perspective?
Ideas of performance. Performances of ourselves. Interacting with each other versus interacting on camera. We can watch “reality television,” but how much of that is codified and presented to us in a narrative structure? The drama of a family in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is presented with a classic narrative build-and-release. That’s the hook. It’s familiar. Part of the Collective’s mission and the mission of “Acts and Actions” is to de-familiarize ourselves with these structures so that perhaps something new can be explored and we can learn more about ourselves.
Ian Paige can be reached atianpaige@gmail.com.
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- 97. Toby Young
It’s easy to make this list when you sit next to the sexiest being on this green Earth: Top Chef hostess Padma Lakshmi. Still, Tom Colicchio managed to keep himself off our radar, and so did the dramatically unsexy Ted Allen. But Young is a shoo-in. Besides his canned one-liners and nonsense observations (actual Times headline for a review of Young’s book: “Learning To Succeed as a Loser, on Two Continents”), this baldie looks like a British inbred cousin of James Carville.
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We’re just not that into you, either. And not just because this unfunny self-help writer belittles desperate women, or because he looks like the offspring of Dane Cook and an old banana. This so-called author/comedian is one of those one-hit wonders who can’t accept his destiny, but who for some reason will have opportunities to produce a new failed talk show on E! every few years.
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer is the Jenna Jameson of financial reporting: the more the economy took it in the rear, the louder his screams of ecstasy became. We had this loudmouthed, prop-wielding financial Gallagher on our list a full year before he got pwned by Jon Stewart — but in 2009, Cramer wins our most-devolved award, streaking up the list from his 91st-place showing in 2008 to now land inside the top 10. How’d we figure it? Simple calculation: we moved him up a spot every time the market went down like a porn star — and added bonuses every time he whimpered “I should’ve done better.”
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