David Abraham, executive vice president and general manager of TLC, said, "Beyond the glamorous premieres and jet-set travel is a world where grit, ambition and, above all, hard work, are the stuff that dreams of made of".
Beyond the glamorous and futuristic notion of building new organs articulated by two generations of academic bioengineers lies the reality of the business of regenerative medicine.
Now, The Playground has been developed into a powerful, edge-of-your-seat, feature film that takes us beyond the glamorous world of Hollywood and into the gritty lives of LA's street kids.
Indeed, Vogue has ventured onto turf well trod in a flurry of films and magazines that portray women beyond 50 as glamorous and sexy.
Living in New Orleans made me realize that accepting bad behavior isn't the same thing as endorsing it, and the things that make the city glamorous beyond compare are not the celebrations themselves but the joyous traditions and the timeless talents that those celebrations honor.
But the phenomenon goes beyond fields seen as glamorous.
Sitting through the romantic action-melodrama "Beyond Borders," which follows a glamorous movie star couple as they tend to the needy in trouble spots like Ethiopia, Cambodia and Chechnya, is like watching someone trying to dry his hands with sandpaper.
Here he plays a performance artist named Oleg, who brings simian havoc, way beyond his brief, to a glamorous event, roaring and thumping among the tuxedos and the gowns.
But Broadway is a vicious, thrilling, glamorous place, and "Smash," beyond some outré moments, has been small, wan and polite, more Hallmark than Bob Fosse.
John Arnone's scenic design is understated and Depression-era convincing, with flashes of glamorous theater marquees upstage (beyond the hotel walls), but the set alone would not be enough.
