Andrew Savage, a contestant on CBS’ upcoming ”Survivor: Pearl Islands,” knows all about turning competition, backstabbing, and occasional physical danger into entertaining unscripted TV. As an attorney, he used to represent ”The Jerry Springer Show.” ”Working for my show obviously qualifies you for survivorship,” the daytime host told the Chicago Sun-Times last week. In 1999, Savage represented Springer during a Chicago City Council investigation into whether the fights between guests on Springer’s show were staged. Read More...
Ramona Gray, a 29 year old biochemist from Edison, N.J., is the cast-off most likely to endorse Dramamine. She got seasick on the raft to the South Pacific island, and hurled her way through the first week. Did you have any idea you?d become so famous from this show?
No! I really just thought people would see me on TV for the four shows and that would be it. I figured I wouldn’t be on long enough for people to recognize me on the street or anything, but NO! Read More...
The year before, a bomb had rocked the Cannes Film Festival’s main viewing hall before dawn on opening day. The year after, another explosive device would be discovered in the same building and defused by French police just a few hours before it was set to go off. But at the 29th Cannes festival in 1976, the big blowup came on May 28, when it was announced that Taxi Driver, director Martin Scorsese’s incendiary study of urban isolation, had won top prize, the Palme d’Or. Read More...
