Begging Mark Cuban For His Dot Com Dollars
from the let-the-fun-begin dept
Mark Cuban made over a billion dollars by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo during the boom years, and certainly hasn't shied away from the limelight since then. He became the extremely passionate and vocal owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and more recently bought Landmark Theaters, the struggling indie theater chain, which he intends to update for the twenty-first century. Many billionaires invest in random companies or sports teams, and then start giving away their money to charity. It appears that, instead of charity, Cuban has also decided to give away some of his money... to someone willing to get on his "good side" on national TV. Apparently, he's decided that the world needs yet another reality TV show, where contestants won't have to actually be good at anything or able to survive some horrible challenge. Instead, they just need to become his best buddy. At the end of which, he'll give the "winner" $1 million (commonly referred to as "pocket change" for billionaires). You would think there are easier ways to make friends these days. Still, in a weird way it does seem like a statement of the times. The suddenly wealthy often do attract a group of new "friends" who are really just trying to get money out of them. This just makes the process more explicit and puts it on TV.
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Cuban
What an asshole...
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Get a life...
The comment about teachers prompted a much better idea - how about a reality show based around education, where the best project put together by competing schools wins them a million - half going to the school itself, half going to college-scholarship grants for the participating kids.
Call me an optimist, but with the right packaging and choice of project, this could be as entertaining and engaging as any of the crud that passes as programming at present. I'd like to think the real fighting would be over who gets to sponsor this.
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Re: Get a life...
How about a reality based television show based on getting laid ? I mean thats what it really is all about anyhow. Pay participants for blow jobs and full sex acts and at the end of the show give a million to the biggest hoe.
I'd watch.
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Re: Get a life...
There are about a thousand of those on the Internet already, if you really want to watch...
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marks wife
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