"In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar……" — Tom Shales
"In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all."
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23 Quotes by Tom Shales
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a…
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books…
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Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families…
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The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but…
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Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way…
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick…
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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated…
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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses…
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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie…
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun…
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Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line…
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