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Lucy Undying
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What would I give, to be seen? To be carefully studied and perfectly understood? Would I let someone carve me up, if it meant feeling like I was loved? I knew the answer was yes, because it had always been yes. I had let others bleed me dry
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“The catalyst for these protoreality shows was, as ever, a labor strike:”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Frank Berry, then the head of the NAACP, also objected to the show, but from a different angle. The way he saw it, the problem with Cops wasn’t that it worked with the police—it was that cops behaved better on camera than they did in real life, concealing their racism.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Scanlon would go on to edit two more seasons of The Apprentice, then got fired, two weeks before Christmas, after a male editor came back from paternity leave.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
“Darwin had no problem saying that animals had fun playing. But suddenly only people could “play”; a behaviorist might say that non-humans could merely “engage in affiliative activity.”
― Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
― Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
“The way most WGA writers saw it, the genre was the enemy—a wedge networks used to resist union demands, first in 1988, when the WGA struck for twenty-two weeks, and then again in 2001. If reality laborers suffered, maybe they deserved to.”
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
― Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
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