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Yesterday I visited a concert from Robbie williams at the Amsterdam Arena in Holland. Robbie Williams sung we will rock you and the whole audience (45 000 people ) joined him. It was realy great. Actually the whole show was great. Before this tour started Robbie has said that he would only play those songs he really loves. I think it's great that the man played we will rock you and the rest off the audience seemed to agree with me.Before the concert started they showed a videoclip of hammer to fall from the live at wembley dvd, It was real nice to see freddie and the guys on the big stadium screen.
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95 Wrangler 4 cyl after it rains it spits and sputters ????? and you have to keep the peddle half way to the floor to keep it running ............ On a dry day I can take the garden hose and spray it from bumper to bumper and it runs ok ?????????????
distributor cap. then at night while jeep is running lift hoood and a light spray of water and see if the plug wires are arcing.
Time for a tune up, new wires for plugs and distributor along with a good cap etc. Make sure the plug and coil wires have a good boot that covers the connections. Also use the dielectric grease that comes with the wires on the boots etc. Won't hurt to clean and grease the coil, battery and starter connections too.
Yea both flatline and GaryK are on the right track, bad cap bad wires, can be getting wet inside cap. Spray inside of cap with WD40.
I had the same problem with mine, with occasional problems of just idling and starting. I changed the cap, rotor, plugs and wires and everything seems to be good now.
I replaced the wires, plugs, cap, and rotor twice and it has a new coil .......... It still will not run if it rains before I drive it or during a rain ?
Check all your grounds under the hood from the battery to fire wall and especially the motor, remove them clean em up, use some dialectic grease when reassembling, good luck.
I cleaned all the grounds .............. There was rain and snow here Friday night and Saturday it spit and sputtered ???????
OK let's try looking at you vitals and see if the rain is entering the engine bay or the can getting into you wires or ignition. Is the seal at the hood and cowl still good??? Is the rain diverted over the ign module still installed?? Do you get any evidence of water inside the can after it rains?? Lots to look at. Or just move to Vegas only rains 4-5 days a year.
There is no water under the dash anywhere ?????
What kind of intake / airbox are you running?
There is water somewhere it shouldn't be, you just haven't found it.
Its the factory plastic rectangular air box drivers side .... stock filter
+ on ignition issue. moisture in the air can cause a misfire due to cap/rotor and/or plug wire and/or coil issue. get a spray bottle and while its running spray those components and see what happens.
I have taken a garden hose and sprayed all over the engine compartment. And Ive sprayed every where under the Jeep ????? It runs fine ????
thats weird, iginition is the only thing i can think of that could cause this issue. see it alot at work. sorry, i might not be of much help here.
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We also added a curtain, more for keeping the main cabin warm on cold Maine evenings. Being tired of putting holes in our dear boat I just used a piece of Pine approx 5/16 X 1" X just a tad longer than the opening from the compression post to the framing piece on the opposite side. With this as our "curtain rod" through a lovely old piece of velvet, we just bowed it into the arch of the overhead and it sprung enough to hold said curtain even with frequent comings and goings from the vee berth. It worked well but being in the Bahamas more than Maine, it was rarely used and has since decided to stay home.
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WITH the ebbing of the cold war, the environmental issue is moving up on the international agenda. And it is also moving up on the corporate agenda, as demonstrated by this week's Exxon stockholders' meeting in Houston at which a series of environmental initiatives were defeated even as top management insisted upon its commitment to environmental protection.
Is the environment a ''motherhood issue''? Indeed, one problem in dealing with the topic is that everybody insists he or she is devoted to preserving the environment, but there is intense conflict over how to do it and at what cost to taxpayers, business or national economic interests.
Last week at Harriman, N.Y., the American Assembly, a forum founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower when he was president of Columbia University, brought together 76 leading scientists, economists, business executives, political scientists and politicians, international officials and environmentalists from 19 countries to tackle the environmental problem.
After four days of debate, the participants concluded that the danger of global warming was so severe that the United States should take immediate action to lessen it. That conclusion came, as the assembly statement noted, ''just days after a White House conference on the same subject at which the President and other Administration officials refused to acknowledge that the risks of global warming are sufficiently clear to merit immediate action.''
In sharp contradiction to the Administration's position, the assembly declared: ''There is a scientific consensus that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases will cause global climate change. Therefore, the earth is set to experience substantial climate change of unknown scale and rate. The consequences are likely to include sea level rise, greater frequency of extreme weather events, disruptions of ecosystems and potentially vast impacts on the global economy.''
It made specific recommendations on how to reduce those dangers. Warning of the ''irreversibility'' of some threats to the environment unless prompt action was taken, it called for a 20 percent reduction by the year 2005 in global carbon dioxide emissions from burning gasoline, coal, oil and other fossil fuels. And it recommended that the United States enact a ''large, phased-in increase in the Federal tax on gasoline and the adoption of a carbon dioxide emissions fee applicable to the uses of fossil fuels.''
While a large majority of the participants wanted all countries to impose such taxes on carbons, they insisted that the United States, which has lower gasoline taxes than other industrial countries, should act at once on fuel taxes. But there was no consensus on whether to restrict the use of funds raised from taxes on gasoline and other carbon fuels only for developing safer technologies and other environmental purposes, rather than for other purposes.
Even a heavy fuel tax would be only the beginning of an effective global program. The assembly observed that the environmental threat stemmed from three ''indivisibly linked'' global trends: human population growth, with world population, now at 5.2 billion, headed for 14 billion by the middle of the next century at present rates of growth; tropical deforestation and the rapid loss of biological diversity, and global atmospheric change, including stratospheric ozone loss and greenhouse warming.
On population policy, it again criticized the Administration in urging that family planning be supported and made available ''to those who want it'' throughout the world, which it estimated would cost $10 billion a year by 2000. ''Ultimately,'' the assembly stated, ''no Administration can be regarded as serious about the environment unless it is serious about global population growth.''
The threat to the global environment stems both from poverty and from affluence: poverty in the developing countries, which drives poor people to cut down forests and to have more children for the sake of family security, and affluence in the industrial countries, where rising income leads to an increase of polluting fuels and technologies.
As wealth and poverty can both lead to environmental destruction, so can both Communism and capitalism - and the worst of these is almost certainly Communism, with its restrictions of public pressure on bureaucrats, and with the lack of private property giving scant incentive to individuals to protect their land and other resources.
Delegates from Eastern Europe attending the assembly, which was also sponsored by the World Resources Institute, felt that their physical environments were among the worst in the world. They sought collaboration between their countries and the United States, including private business, on the environment. ''Such collaboration,'' the assembly agreed, ''is a commercial opportunity, and should be one of the more economically efficient ways of reducing environmental degradation.''
Business people from the West insisted that they should not be regarded as ''the enemy,'' but rather as potential solvers of environmental problems. Some called for creation of a ''business forum'' to work with governments and environmental groups. And the assembly reached consensus in urging governments to encourage ''environmental enterpreneurship'' through the use of taxes, subsidies and other signals.
But the environment is no more a ''motherhood problem'' than, say, motherhood itself, as the abortion debate proves.


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hotdogs covered in Tostitoes, queso cheese sauce
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Did you remember the freshly diced onions and piping hot chili?
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chili gives me gas
Better than being charged $3.67 a Gal. for it.
not exactly healthy...
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It was not bad good size trail at about 0.5 mile they is a good climb up, really the hardest part. All the recent rain has made it pretty green and nicer then expected.
Disappointing, this trail should be taken down. Found the trailhead easy enough, but it really only was 1/2 mile at the most. The fire road ends abruptly at a ravine and looks to continue further up on the other side. Maybe there is another way to access the fire road higher up the hill. This trail needs to be updated!!!!! Great views.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - August 16, 1991, New Braunfels, Texas Sports Friday, August 16, 1991 Dolphins hope to keep afloat Local swim club seeks pledges The Rotary Dolphins kicked off a swim-a-thon last week, and the group is requesting assistance from the community during its current fund drive. The local swim team is hoping to, keep the Landa Park pool open another month to continue practices. Gub coach Bud Dallmann said it costs approximately $1,200 a month to operate the pool. Not having the pool would put the club at a disadvantage compared to virtually every other club the Dolphins compete with, Dallmann said. "All the teams we compete against are year-round teams,'' he said. "They all have the facilities to swim year-round.*' After it becomes too cold to swim outdoors, the Dolphins practice at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin. The team has to rent the facilities at TLC, so proceeds from the fund drive are geared to keep Landa Fool open and then help with the cost of renting the TLC pool. Many of the swimmers on the Canyon and New Braunfels High School swim teams also arc members of the Dolphins, Dallmann said, and those swimmers also compete with swimmers who are able to use year-round facilities. "We're trying to keep those team 'All the teams we compete against are year-round teams. They all have the facilities to swim year-round/ Dolphins Coach Bud Dallmann (members) in the water,'' he said. Members of the Dolphins are soliciting pledges for a swim-a-thon, in which team members will sec how many laps they can swim in 30 minutes. The swim-a-thon is scheduled for Aug. 23. Dallmann said the maxtmun. amount for pledges will be 70 laps. Last weekend, the club had a run through to determine estimates of how many laps each person could swim in that time. One Dolphin swam more than IOO laps, and several others were in the 80s. Anyone wishing to help sponsor the team should call Dallmann at 625-6342. Mattingly benched in hairy situation NEW YORK (AP) — Don Mattingly doesn't warn to be known as another Yankee Gipper. Manager Stump Merrill benched Mattingly on Thursday after he refused to get a haircut and said the team captain will stay in the dugout until he gets clipped. It seems Mattingly's problems with the New York Yankees can't be solved by a barber. After the Yankees' 5-1 victory over Kansas City, it became apparent this is about more than just a simple rules violation. Mattingly, who was fined $250. says the haircut order came from General Manager Gene Michael and Merrill was just a go-between. With George Steinbrenner out of the picture, there may be a power struggle going on at Yankee Stadium. "lf Stick (Michael) warns to be the hitting coach, the pitching coach and run everything, maybe he should come down here and take some of the blame,'' Mattingly said. I After a strong show mg rn June and early July, the Yankees have lost 20 of their last 26 games. Mattingly, hampered by back problems the last two seasons, also revealed that he asked Michael in June to be traded.' Matungly, who has a $19.3 million contract through 1995. said he asked to be traded because the Yankees art not close to winning a championship. "Stick was talking about a five-year plan and I told him I don't have five years to wait." the 30-year-old Matungly said. "We met privately and he asked about being traded," Michael lokl MSG network Thursday night "He wondered about the dim: bon of the team." The Yankees are scheduled lo play the Chicago While Sos tonight, and Matungly said he would "talk to his family and search my bean" before deciding whether to get a haircut American League East Division W L PCL GR Toronto 63 53 543 — DetroM 81 56 526 2 Boston 56 56 481 6 Miwaukee 52 63 452 104 New York 51 62 451 ion Bellmore 46 67 417 14VS Cleveland 37 75 330 24 Weal DI vlaion W I Pet OR Mvmesota 66 46 566 — Chicago 66 48 574 1*4 Oakland 64 52 552 4 Svelte 62 53 438 sw Kansas City •0 53 531 ivy Texas 57 56 500 8 CaMomta 56 56 481 11 Thursday's 0 erne a Castomia (Ozaha 13) at Saattto (Krueger BR). 9 35pm National League taal Division W L Pct OD Pittsburgh 67 46 583 — Si Louw 61 52 540 6 Chicago 57 57 500 104 New York 57 57 500 104 Philadelphia 54 60 474 ISA Montreal 46 •7 407 21 Wast Division W L Pct. GR Loa Angelas 63 SI 553 — Allan ta 51 52 540 14 San Francisco 57 57 SOO 6 San Dwgo 57 56 486 64 Ctocmnaii 54 SO 478 64 Houston 46 66 421 15 New York S. Kamas Cay I Toronto 4. Milwaukee 1 Satilla 8. Oakland 6 Bai un tore 8. Tauts 2 Bostons. Cleveland 2 CaMomta 8, Minnesota I Detroit 6. Chcago 4 Today's Games Tauts (Brown 7 9 and Witt *5) ai Clava land (King 5 6 and York I -4). 4 05 p in Chicago (AKaraj 1 -0) ai Maw York (Paras 1-0).6 30pm Kamaa Cay (Saberhegan •«) ai Boaion (Clemens 12 8) 6 36 pm Toronto (Key 12 7) ai Oat od (Can* 14), 6 35pm Oakland (Moore 11 7) ai Minnesota (Taper* to 7).7 05pm Balun UM* (Johnson 3-4) al (August 6-6), 7 SO p rn Thursday s Garnet Chicago 7. Montreal 6 San Otego 1. Atwite 0 Pr*tod»tphia6 Pttwburgh 4 St Loma 4, New York I San Francisco 4. Cmcetnaa I Houston 6. Loa Angelet 1 Today's Ga mea Philadelphia (Ruffin 3-3) al Chicago (Soto Ma 2-4). 2 20 pm Maw York (Fernanda* 02) al Piasfturgh (Toman 7 4) 6 35 pm Bl Loud (TowkMaury 7 8) al Mon*aal (Method 2 4). 8 36 p rn Atlanta (Reynoso I O) ai San Otego (Bonos 14). 9 06 pm Cmonnaii (Gross 4 4) ai San Francisco (Black 010). 805 pm Houston (K4e 5-7) al Los Anginas (Her' •baar 4 2). 8 36pm Merrill mud he alio mid pitcher Pascuai Pere* and catcher Matt Nukes to get a trim. "He (Matungly) asked me if he was rn the lineup and I asked him if he would get his hair cut. He said no, so I told him he would not be in the lineup,** Merrill said "Why have rules if you don't enforce them It's rn the contract and he signed ii' Memll said Matungly was fined and management would review the situation, if necessary "I never had too much concern with my hair,** Matungly said "I come lo play ball and win games b's kind of silly tome.'* Mattingly's shaggy brown hair Cabs over his collar and is cropped closely ai the sides The Yankees say they want it neat and trim md he's violating the club's dress and grooming code. "Maybe they want an organisation that is filii of guys who are puppets, Matungly said. "Maybe I don t Ta into the organisation any more. Maybe this is a way of saying I don't fit into the organization '* Matungly 15 hitting .305 with seven homers and 48 Rfits. He is a .317 lifetime hitter and a fan favorite since joining the club rn 1983. But his power production has declined because of the back troubles. Michael, appointed lo run the club a year ago when Steinbrenner was forced out by commissioner Fay Vincent. WM not available for commentAstros 6, Dodgers 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Finley got four hits, including a three-run homer, and the Astros sent Ramon Martinez lo his third straight defeat, heating Los Angeles 6-1 Thursday night. Martinez (14 -8) has kist three in a row for the first time since 1989 ftw Harnttch (7-8) pitched five hit ball for seven innings. He struck out four, walked one and escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the fifth Martinez allowed sis runs and cts hits rn five innings Finley capped a four-run fourth traung with his seventh homer and third straight bn. It came one pitch after Martinez foiled a squeeze bunt by Hamoch and threw out Anduyar Cedent) ai the plate for the second ouiOf lo*** 9, Ranger# 2 Jose Mesa (5-8), recalled it urn Class AAA Rochester earlier in the day, pitched a three hitter, struck oui a career high rnae aid walked two Onto Martinez drove m four runs and Leo Gomez bu a three run homer Od Cm Boyd (0-4) allowed tune runs and 14 bus for Tens The Orioles swept Texas in the four game series ai Memorial Stadium, with the Rangers managing only sis bito rn (he final two games of the series Landa Ladies compete in low-net tournament The Linda U&oi Golf Association played a low-net tournament Aug. I, with Dorothy Brooks and Edna Guttery tying for first place on the A flight. Manin Patten won the B flight, and Sally Matney and Justin! Ker-ulis tied for first on the C flight. Guttery and Peggy Hopkins both hit chtp-tns during the tournament.NMA pity* 4-fitan twit The New Braunfels Golf Association played a four-man team, iwo-bcm-hnll tournament on Aug. IO. The team of Rutty Ellis, Ken WilL Charlie Smith and Bob Hoy woo the tournament with a 119 •core. one point ahead of the second-place finishers. The runner-up team, at a 120, was Scott Filcher. Carl Droebert, Bob Grundon and Ski Hanewish. In third (Race with a 123 was the team of Fernando Gutierrez, Tod Crane. Dave Moreno and Lee Compton Ellis won the A flight in individual play with a 68 score. Druebcn had the best day on the B flight at 66. Moreno captured C flight honors with a 65, and Jercy Hy Un won the D flight at 71. Gutierrez had the low gross score with a 71. Closest to the pint were Filcher on #7 aid Leonard Tuchon#9. On Saturday, the NBGA will play a two-man team. pick-your* own-partner tournament. MV, Bracken clubs win seniors bowling events Hie fust ever Comal County 9-pin lemur uuphy howling was held at Bulverde Bowling Gub last weekend. The event was for bowlers ages 55 or older, cunsating of one mixed team. one men's aid one women's team from each of the eight clubs belonging lo (he Comal County Trophy League Bowling (he high score for the mixed icarus was Muyuon Valley, with a total score of 436 from games of 211 and 225 Team members are: Lee and Gladys lh arake, Jerome Voges, Patty Ucdun. Yvonne Herd and team cap tam James Neah Bracken won the own s event with a iwo gan* score of 470, bowling games of 216 and 254. Members of the winning learn are * Gilbert Ward. Leo Tankersley. Jess Edwards, Buddy Carlin. Jim Moeller and caption Eugene Moeller. A learn from Bracken also look first in the ladies' tournament, bowling games of 171 and 221 for a combined w inning score of 392. Team members are Joyce Tankersley. Clara Schertz, bene Fnesenhahn, Bernice Fnesenhahn, Shaky Scog-gans and team captain Marlene Fnesenhahn The mixed learn will compete in the Tri-County Roll-Off on Saturday at the Zorn Bowling Gub. The men's and women's champion learns will have respective roll -offs on SundayHouston anxious for national attention after probation lift DALLAS (AP) — The Houston Cougars are ready for then share of national attention after two years of NCAA exile. "We paid our dues although it was some dung none of the kids un this team foal anything to do with," said Houston Coach John Jenkins "Now we're ready to show the country what we can do.'* What the Cougars can do is pass then opponents dizzy behind the burnie ann uf David Klingier, who has more accuracy and velocity than hts predecessor, Hetsman Trophy winner Andre Ware The Cougars, after opening a* home against Louisiana Tech, will play twice ut quick sue cession on national televisual They meet the Miami Hurricanes in the Change Bowl aa Thursday night Sept 12 (ESPN-TV) then travel lo Illinois lo play Illinois un ABC TV ai 2:30 pm , Sept 21. "Peopk should know w hat we can do after those two games, '' Jenkins said Houston was 10-1 last year with us only loss lo the Texas Longhorns The Coughs finished ranked I Uh in the nation by The Associated Hess The return of the Cougars ai NCAA grate means that for die first tune in six years no SWC team will be un probation when the season starts The 1991 season also wdi be (he last for an old charter member of the league Arkansas wdl make us farewell lour of the SWC scene although Southern Methodist alai Texas ARM are on future schedules The Flogs mask an enemy of every SWC school by abruptly saying zdto* to the league to join the Southeastern Conferetue Arkansas lost lo every learn in the confer ence last year except probation weakened Southern Methodist Without star quarterback (Jutnu Grovey, the Hogs could expect die wurst again (hts season /'We would like to leave won a lade better taste rn our mouths, * said Arkansas coach Jack Clowe, who took over last year after Ken Hatfield left for Clemson following a dispute with athletic director Frank Broyles "Thus is our last year ta the conference and we are grateful fur another chance lo ptoy in tho vafc ue after die season we had last year * However, Crowe adonis things look dark for the piggies "The quality of louthafi in d* Southwest Conference is uutstaiaiug and we know our task ss dtAtcuk.'" Crowe said "Obviously, Texas, Texas ARM and Houston should be very guud, and Baylor shuotdn'l be far behind diem Rice was a good fuutbsh team last year and should be even better " I he SWC aho wdl feanae two big question marks Can the defending chawqnun Texas Long huns* repair the damage dune by the Utuversi *> *» > muni* rn t'uuun Boart? Wig SMU finally win aomfcretwe game rn us thud season suae the M AA death penalty? " The loss in the Canon Bowl doesn't seem id have had any bad rflai. said Texas Coach David McWilliams "There seems lo be a lot of enthusiasm kft over from last season. "We should be a real sound defense We have eight starters conung buck from what was a good defense last year The from four looks especially strong and the linebackers are quick ones One of the dungs we kartied from the Cotton Bowl is the importance of quickness," he said Offensively, Texas should he improved Kiel Gardere is a proven winner at quarterback arid we are four deep at running back with Butch I tacit tot, Phil Brown, Adrian Walker and Patrick Wilson,'* McWilliams saidHerald-Ze/funp, New Braunfels, Texas Page 9 The Rotary Dolphins are requesting help to keep the Landa Park pool open for an extra month. (Photo by Annehes Schlickenneder) ;
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The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Tuesday April 3 2007
In this article, we say that the reality television show Survivor was a Swedish format. In fact it was created by British television producer Charlie Parsons and licensed to a Swedish programme maker by his production company, Castaway Television Productions Ltd.
Approaching the American Idol studios in Los Angeles, the strangest thing starts happening. As you pass the crowds of Teamsters and security staff, the American accents start to drop away. One then hears the chirrup of transplanted British accents, a Geordie here, a Jock there, a smattering of Scouser and Manc, and then a steadily rising hum of generic Estuary English crescendoes as you enter the building and make your way to the executive offices. "The British are coming!" Paul Revere's fabled alarum of the Revolutionary War, rashly appropriated by Colin Welland about 25 years too early when he won his screenwriting Oscar for Chariots of Fire, has finally come true in an almost military sense. This place looks like the beachhead of an invading army.
The second British Invasion may be less heralded than the musical one led by the Beatles in 1964, but have no doubt, American television has at last been successfully breached by the Limey hordes. But this time, it's like the Redcoats came from Butlins.
Appropriately enough, last night's two-hour edition of American Idol, the highest-rated show on US television and a moneyspinning pop-culture phenomenon, used as its musical theme "The Songs of The British Invasion". There were the contestants, gamely belting out Time of The Season and Paint It Black. One of the more controversial contestants, the shabby-cute but indubitably talent-lite Sanjaya Malakar, who is the focus of an Idol-hostile website called Voteforthebadone.com, thrashed out a screechy version of You Really Got Me that would have really got to Ray and Dave Davies in all the worst ways. And the special guest singers were perennial nostalgia-circuit fixtures Lulu and Peter Noone, belting out their lone American hits, their presence almost persuading me that I was watching the musical interlude from some fugitive roadshow episode of Noel Edmonds' Multi-Coloured Swap-Shop from bleakest 1976.
If there is a cause for the flashback, it is probably the BBC light entertainment provenance of the show's main honcho, producer Nigel Lythgoe. Self-described one-time "BBC choreography wunderkind", the erstwhile intimate of such fading totems of Saturday Night naffness as Freddie Starr, Bernie Winters, Bobby Davro and Leslie Crowther, briefly notorious as "Nasty Nigel" on ITV's Popstars, Lythgoe is now contentedly ensconced in Los Angeles, with a true American entertainment colossus as his personal plaything and providing fodder for British tabloid gossip columns after being seen dining with Priscilla Presley.
"You don't look so nasty, Nigel."
"Oh . . . but I am!" He singsongs merrily from behind his desk, looking sleek and trim, his faintly mullety hairdo making him look boyishly younger than his 57 years. You would never know he had a near-fatal heart-attack last year, or that his marriage is on the fast-forward fritz. Even when he talks of these things, the good cheer just pours off him.
By way of prelude he outlines his inexorable pre-Idol rise through the BBC, LWT and Granada TV, first as a spangle-suited dancer-choreographer, then as a director and producer, and furnishes me with anecdotes of directing The Muppets ("not really choreography, more like . . . well, just hands up their arses, actually"). When I mention my treasured recollection of an episode of Who Do You Do from about 1972, featuring Freddie Starr and 22 Hitlers playing a soccer match, he cries, "I did that! Except is was only one Hitler, plus Roy Orbison and loads of others - and Chief Ironside in goal in his wheelchair!"
You have to love someone who actually improves your childhood memories.
"It's like Little Britain out there," I say, pointing at the door.
"My team certainly is. In fact, most of the American reality shows are: Dancing With The Stars, Survivor, The Apprentice. It's basically because we had such little budgets back in Britain that we've done everything, and we do it all for next to nothing. So they let us bring our people over here."
Was that originally a problem, then?
"For the first season of American Idol we used American producers they gave us. I came in one day and the three judges" - Randy Jackson, the rotund African-American former bassist for Journey, Paula Abdul, the choreographer who taught the LA Lakers' cheerleaders to comport themselves like strippers, and the dependably sour Simon Cowell - "were sat there with a rhesus monkey. I said what's that fucking monkey doing there? And the producer says, 'Well, we've got three monkeys on the panel, so we thought we'd get a fourth in there and see if he reacts any different to the singers than the real judges. And get this, we can get him to cover his ears up . . . '
"Well, that monkey and that producer left the production that morning. They just didn't get it. We just believe we're gonna make a good show or we're not. Bring in my Brits! We brought in our supervising producer from Pop Idol. He's got our humour - we send ourselves up all the time. It's the only way we know, we never take it seriously."
Lythgoe is one of several Brits who have led this charge into the ratings heart of the American TV monolith. The groundbreaking reality-show was Survivor, a Swedish format relicensed for the US by 47-year-old Londoner and ex-Falkland's war paratrooper Mark Burnett. He has since built his own reality-TV empire with shows like The Apprentice, The Restaurant and his current outing, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader? (He came something of a cropper this year when the new season's Survivor teams were divvied up according to race.)
Burnett's success did not come easy, and nor did American Idol's.
"I wasn't involved in the US pitch process. Simon Fuller [Lythgoe's partner at 19TV] came out here and did every single major broadcaster, and some wouldn't even take his meetings. But think about what it was - it's a talent show, it hadn't already been made in the UK, there weren't any figures for it. 'The idea is we're gonna go round the country and find a pop singer.' I would have turned it down myself if I hadn't known any better - if I hadn't seen Popstars."
Luck came in the form of Rupert Murdoch, or rather his daughter, Elisabeth, who persuaded Murdoch senior not only to take on the show, but to prevent Fox execs from fiddling with the format. Once it was guaranteed that Cowell could be himself - that is play Captain Bringdown for a series of heartbroken tune-manglers - Lythgoe and his team never looked back. Their other strongest ally was the enfant terrible of the network, vice president Mark Darnell, a five-foot-nothing ex-child actor and the in-house tiny terror responsible for the very tackiest of Fox fare, including such toothsome garbage as When Animals Attack, When Stunts Go Bad, Busted on The Job (hidden cameras catching employees pissing in the soup, etc).
"A shrimp, yes, but with an enormous talent. Very creative, especially for an executive - dangerously creative, almost. A real maverick, but give me that every time. If you're willing to accept failure in order to achieve success, then Mike's your man."
Perhaps Darnell's deftness with audience-baiting tat offered a cultural bridge to the incoming Brits. There is, after all, a certain common ground between the light entertainment ethos and the tabloid mindset. No one at Fox could get their minds around the notion of showing the crap-tastic singers' calamitous auditions alongside those of the real talents, and Darnell helped them over that hurdle. "The backers all said, 'Oh, I don't think Americans are gonna wanna see BAD singers!' We couldn't persuade anyone for ages." Before Idol and, in a different way, The Office, the notion of putting audiences through certain excruciating moments was unknown in US television. "We love to watch people like that in England - we make them stars because we've always supported losers. Like Frank Bruno. When he won his championship we dumped him! When he was running about dressed up like Juliet or bashing a giant HP Sauce bottle, we loved him. Or Eddie the Eagle! It's hard to explain that over here, but we were right."
When Idol goes into its off-season, Lythgoe will head for his other show, So You Think You Can Dance, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing, in which he reprises his Nasty Nigel judging cameo. "I'm very passionate about So You Think You Can Dance. It's how I started, after all. You can go through all the moral side of it. It's great to see all the kids putting all their energy into fighting each other with dancing, instead of with their fists. Anything that brings dance back into the culture and that doesn't make dancers automatically look gay and effeminate."
He also has kind words for Dancing With The Stars, his one competitor in the field, even if it perplexes the competing suits at ABC. "It's funny, I said on So You Think You Can Dance that I really liked Dancing With The Stars. And Andrea Wong over at ABC was all suspicious. 'Why did he say that about our show? Why?' And they're like, 'No, I think he genuinely likes it.' But I genuinely like the show. Well, I'm not knocked out with Heather Mills taking off her leg. She had a sneaker on one leg, a ballroom shoe on the other and she took the whole leg off rather than swapping the shoes. And they they used the leg as the foreground for her rehearsal shots!"
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When I woke up, Jester was gone. The space beside me on the bed was empty, the sheets only slight crumpled. I guessed he really was an early riser.
I sat up, stretching my arms above my head. My whole body felt so stiff for some strange reason, like I had run miles. The memories from the previous day began to slowly return to me and I grimaced. I had obviously upset Jester with my unexpected flashback. I had absolutely no idea who the hell 'Lukah' was, and yet his face was so painstakingly familiar, for unknown reasons. I felt like I should recognize him. My heart ached longingly whenever I thought of him and my stomach knotted uncomfortably.
Then there had been the issue of Adder's return. There was something incredibly dark and sadistic in the way he had spoken. In the way he had Calla pinned against the wall and in the way he had addressed us all. It wasn't like Adder's normal mannerisms. It was as though any trace of humanity he might have had had completely perished and in its place was something merciless and terrifying, with no regard for anyone but himself, a certain callous indifference to those around him.
Footsteps outside the door broke me from my reverie.
'Jester?' I called out.
There was no response.
Confused, I peeled the duvet away and started for the door. However, something made me falter. It wasn't something I was entirely familiar with. It felt like a strange mix between relief, anxiety and desire. Burning desire.
I could hear the footsteps approaching closer, but I was rooted to the spot, mostly due to these unjustified emotions. I wondered fleetingly if it was Adder, but I remembered that he couldn't venture out in the daylight. I got the distinct impression that it wasn't Jester.
The wooden door creaked on its hinges as it was pushed open.
The figure stood in the threshold was immersed in shadows. He was facing me, but all I could distinguish was a dark shirt with the sleeves pushed up to reveal tensed arms and clenched fists, the tendons standing out against ivory skin.
For what seemed like hours, but could have only been seconds, I was stood facing this man with the unidentifiable features. It was as though we were held in each others gaze; neither could move or look away first.
But then he took the first step.
That one, small insignificant movement that made all the difference.
As the morning sun illuminated his face, bringing features into clear view, I inhaled sharply. Everything seemed to slow down, the whole world came to a screeching halt. My blood ran cold and my heart stopped beating.
Black eyes. Short, jet black hair. A sharp, clenched jaw. Ivory skin.
'Lukah,' the name fell from trembling lips.
The guy from my flashback. The person from my own wild imagination was now stood facing me, very much alive and breathing. So very tangible. If I could just outstretch my hand...but then he may disappear. Why was I so opposed to that idea?
When he spoke, it felt like concrete evidence. It cleared away any doubt that I had.
'Where...how do I know you?' my voice was barely above a whisper.
'It's not supposed to be like this Ana,' he frowned slightly, obviously pained. 'I loved you. I still do. Not a day goes by when I don't think of you.'
'Who are you?' my voice cracked and my eyes stung.
'Do not cry, my love.' He closed the distance between us, gently wiping a stray tear away with his thumb. 'We are safer this way.'
With mild surprise, I realized I was crying. But why?! I didn't know this person stood in front of me, the one declaring his love for me, and yet I felt so comfortable in his warm embrace, so at home.
'I had to make the ultimate sacrifice,' he murmured into my hair. 'To ensure your safety. Just know we are both safer this way and I will always love you.'
'Ana?' Jester's voice sounded from the doorway, shattering everything.
I blinked, and discovered we were the only two in the room. I had never felt so cripplingly lost in my entire life as I did right then. But then came the guilt. The guilt at Jester's worried, wide eyes and panicked voice. The guilt at this unknown stranger and how abandoned I felt when he had disappeared.
'Jester,' I mumbled, glancing up. 'I'm so sorry.'
His expression twisted into one of pain. 'For what? You didn't do anything.'
'For everything. I don't deserve you. You're too good for me.'
I felt like the worst person in the world right then, and none of it made any sense to me.