Watch the games on their refreshingly candid cable television network.
As the theme song of the old Candid Camera television program used to say, we "see ourselves as other people do".
"Our Nixon" shows Haldeman and Ehrlichman in a more sympathetic light than most documentaries, though, oddly enough, their humanity is revealed less in their stilted home movies than in the candid, plain-spoken television interviews they gave after being released from prison.
When "Candid Camera" came to television, the female voice was replaced by a bleep and a graphic that flashed "Censored!" As my father and I learned over decades of production, ordinary folks don't really curse much in routine conversation — even when mildly agitated — but audiences love to think otherwise.
On Monday night, after a 90-minute special celebrating Ms. White's 90th birthday, NBC gave a trial run to "Betty White's Off Their Rockers," which resurrected the hidden-camera gimmick that "Candid Camera" brought to television more than a half-century ago.
Allen Funt invented the television show Candid Camera in the late Forties, but before that he recorded conversations with irritable soldiers in a series called The Gripe Booth Morissette has practised yoga, meditation and aromatherapy, and become interested in psychotherapy and neuroscience.
The film blurs lines between documentary, reality television and "Candid Camera," with Vargas instigating the proceedings.
When he dropped out of veterinary school at Cornell University after six weeks, he moved to New York and reclaimed his post at NBC before getting a job at "Candid Camera" and becoming a television producer.
The film, shown on public television, presented a surprisingly candid look at the excitement, camaraderie and competition that the finals concert engenders among the young artists.
