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(Viral) Video Makes Homeless Man a Radio Star

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Days ago, Ted Williams was another homeless man on the streets of America with a hard luck story. Trained as a radio announcer, he was asking for change at a freeway exit in Columbus, Ohio, with a handmade sign boasting of his golden radio voice. A reporter and videographer for the …

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The Morning After: Going Through the Motions

It’s nothing new in TV to encounter a reality show that is nothing new. Still, Paula Abdul’s Live to Dance, for CBS, was something of a milestone in the field of derivative reality TV: I’m not sure that I was able to identify a single original idea in it. There was the dance competition, of course, from So You Think You Can Dance. …