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Chew gum to lose weight?
Special to The TimesThe product: Contestants on the current season of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" have been taking a slightly offbeat approach to shedding pounds. In addition to sweating on treadmills and sticking to near-starvation diets, they've been chewing gobs of gum --...Tags: Diarrhea, Weight Loss, Education, Purdue University, Science and Technology
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Hollywood's endangered entrepreneurs
THE BIG PICTUREIT'S hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner's Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he'd sold his company in...Tags: Cinema Industry, Jay-Z, Paul Thomas Anderson, Will Ferrell, Dr. Dre (music artist)
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With writers on strike, networks ready a dose of reality with plenty of games
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSOON it will be "American Idol" season, that sweet time of year when the world stops to crown a new singing sensation. The naysayers predicted that last year would be the year Americans stopped idolizing, and they were so, so wrong. With the...Tags: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (tv program), ABC (tv network), Million Dollar Password (tv program), Boxing, Howie Mandel
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Working for reality TV? Sorry
PREDICTIONS often come back to haunt the predictor, but this column will go out on a limb anyway: Chances are slim to none that the Writers Guild of America will make good on its vow to organize large numbers of reality-show workers as a result of its...Tags: Labor Legislation, Collective Contract, Unions, Social Issues, Academy Awards
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CBS losing 'most watched' status
Channel IslandPLUNGE into the backwaters of Wikipedia and you can surface with a diverting little treasure that lists the promotional slogans for CBS dating back to 1963. Some of this information needs clarification: "The Revolutionaries Are on CBS" was a famously...Tags: Police Investigations, ABC (tv network), Companies and Corporations, Television Industry, CSI (tv program)
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'Lost' is off to a quick startle
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's astounding how fast this season of "Lost" has taken off. Remember last year, when we spent episode after episode watching Jack, Sawyer and Kate sit around in cages? Not this year. It's a testament to the incredible amount of information the writers...Tags: Michael Emerson, Jeremy Davies, ABC (tv network), Death, Jack Kerouac
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Just call Matt Kunitz the king of reality TV
Channel IslandEVEN people who detest his brand of reality shows would be well-advised not to wrestle Matt Kunitz in the mud. For one thing, the guy just knows too much about mud. For his newest hit, ABC's pratfall extravaganza “Wipeout,” Kunitz and his...Tags: John Anderson, ABC (tv network), ESPN (tv network), Dancing With the Stars (tv program), Television Industry
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A 'Project Runway' fan defends it to reality TV critics
Television Critic"Project Runway" is the show I name whenever I am asked to defend reality TV or my unwillingness to condemn it all out of hand. The popular fashion-designing competition finished its fifth season on Bravo last October and now circles in a holding...Tags: Chesley B. Sullenberger III, Television Industry, Heidi Klum, Michael Kors, Jennifer Lopez
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'Wanna Bet?': ABC places wager on Ant & Dec.
Channel IslandON REALITY TV, the British are ever coming. In the last few years, we've welcomed Anne Robinson, the snarky host of "The Weakest Link," and Piers Morgan, the harrumphing judge on "America's Got Talent." We've kicked back with Nigel Lythgoe, the naughty...Tags: ABC (tv network), America's Got Talent (tv program), Dancing With the Stars (tv program), Television Industry, Dancing
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Guatemala, out of the shadows
Times Staff WriterBill Clinton slept here. He shopped a few blocks away. He had dinner around the corner and down the street. Everywhere I turned, it seemed, I saw fading photos of the former president smiling into the camera as he shook hands with a beaming proprietor. I...Tags: Antigua and Barbuda, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Kaplan, Landforms
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A splendid isolation
Times Staff WriterAs dusk fell on Papeete, Tahiti, we stood on the aft deck, sipping Yoyo the bartender's infamous rum punch. Soon the new Aranui 3 would set sail on a 15-night voyage to the remote Marquesas Islands. With America plunging into war, here we were, 4,000...Tags: Cruises, Trips and Vacations, Salads, Tourism and Leisure, Defense
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Weston man aims to survive TNT's '72 Hours'
What do you get when you add the bickering of "Survivor" to the suspense of "The Amazing Race"? Something that looks like "72 Hours,'' a new TNT reality series premiering 10 p.m. Thursday. Weston resident Garfield Griffiths is one of nine competitors...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, TNT (tv network), The Amazing Race (tv program)
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