For the past several weeks, I've enjoyed The Joe Schmo Show on Spike TV. The premise: Take an ordinary guy and make him the only real aspect of the show. Everything else, from the fellow contestants (actors) to the smarmy host (actor) to the games (rigged) to the elimination ceremony (scripted) was fake. At the end, have one of the actors win, then turn around and reveal to Joe — in this case Matt Kennedy Gould, of Pittsburgh, PA — that everyone are actors and that the whole thing was fake.
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Just a few weeks ago, me and my wife went to the movies. We haven't gone in quite a while and the experience was good. However, I have a question: Is it better to watch a movie in a theatre that is full or empty? We saw "Lost in Translation" with Bill Murray. I liked the movie a lot. It was a different take on unaquainted love from a different point of view. The theatre was completely empty, except for us. It was strange, but nice. No worries about other people talking, but is that rea...