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She replies, Thats a sexist kind of question, isnt it?
Im not sure if I like that.
Murray agrees and apologizes.
Definitely not during Super Bowl weekend.
You never know whats going to happen in these games.
They can get a little rough, or they can get boring.
It depends what happens.
After all that, I wont win.
Who wants to be a part of it?
Grant says, with candor seldom seen from celebs at the time.
Were leaving, were getting out.
Shes saying this publicly even after taking home a statue!
Somewhere, a young Harvey Levins ears mustve been ringing.
Think a drier version ofAbove Average.
Soon after TVTVs founding in San Francisco, Paul Goldsmith joined the crew as a camera operator.
Without him and his documentary, TVTV mightve ended up to be little more than a Wikipedia entry.
Still, the footage is staggering.
Not much by todays batshit D.C. standards, sure, but for the time?
From a man like Kissinger?
Why dont you show us how you do that?
It was like wed never flushed a toilet before.
They began championing human-interest pieces.
Today, it would be impossible to come anywhere near the access we were given.
Not even close, Goldsmith says.
On the other hand, a truly talented performer now has the tools to make media anytime, anywhere.
I see some very interesting things coming down the pike … and some very scary ones.
The collectives no-holds-barred tone didnt appeal to everyone.
Simply, the news Establishment had never seen television produced this way, so it rejected them.
TVTV provided Harold an opportunity to do his first directing.
Early glints of Murrays famedCinderella story rant inCaddyshackare apparent.
I got beat out by Fellini!
On TVTVs final check-in with Beasley, shes asleep.
The partys not over, but she doesnt give a shit the Oscars are boring.
No one had ever deigned criticize Hollywoods Big Night before, and it was perfect.
(Seriously, they filmed the plays and put them on national television.)
Hell, TVTV even interviewed players wives poolside decades before VH1sBasketball Wiveswas a glint in Viacom executives eyes.
I suppose the first reality TV was shot in 16 mm film and was called cinema verite.
Thats what I loved to do before I joined TVTV, Goldsmith says.
TVTV was the first to have the journalists/filmmakers be part of the show.
Anyone could talk we became characters in the scene.
Not long before, Billy Murray got scooped up bySNL, and the rest is history.
I learned how to write comedy from TVTV, founding member Allen Rucker says.
Bending reality was the style.
I ask Rucker if he thinks a collective like TVTV could exist today.
His answer surprises me.
DIY video is huge today.
As Goldsmith mentioned, anyone with an iPhonecan shoot anything(sometimes unfortunately) and upload it to YouTube.
What was Rucker talking about?
Rucker thought his DIY revolution had passed todays filmmakers by, when in fact it has shaped it.
Its a slave to the medium.
Its there to sell stuff.
And we want to see other stories.
Maybe Wendy wasnt so naive after all.
TVTV: Video Revolutionariesisnow available on iTunes.
