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CNN Live Saturday
Real Reality
Aired June 07, 2003 - 16:24 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Reality TV this go-round won't be all jungle survivors, bug eaters, and sexy cutthroat gold diggers in the coming season. CNN's Whitney Casey is seeing a new trend toward actually facing reality, the reality of the lean job market.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Murray cooks the lamb chops. Do you have everything ready?
WHITNEY CASEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fetching New York City restaurateur.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you understand how lucky I am?
CASEY: A billionaire businessman and his empire.
DONALD TRUMP: You want the chance to work for me?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And an adored ESPN sportscaster.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, glad you're there, along with Neil Everett.
CASEY: Three fabulous jobs for thousands of wannabes who now may actually get to be. This season's crop of reality shows seems to be serving up job market possibility.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Running a restaurant is like trying to achieve the impossibility.
CASEY: And 56-year-old Rocco DiSpirito plans on achieving it under the discriminating purview of producers, editors and some 40 cameras.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got every table covered, the bar and every single table in the dining room covered.
CASEY: His new gig share his moniker, Rocco's, a New York City restaurant, the setting for NBC's new reality show "The Restaurant," the first reality show where anyone who is hungry...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've got to stack the deck.
CASEY: ... can be part of the plot. (on camera): So if you do decide to come here, to Rocco's, to eat, you better have your table manners down, because besides the dozens of cameras you can see, there are also dozens of cameras you can't see.
ROCCO DISPIRITO, RESTAURANT OWNER: There's a little bit of every element in every reality show in this, in the restaurant business, because life's dramas play themselves out in restaurants.
CASEY (voice-over): A really mamoni (ph), that's Italian for momma's boy, Rocco has even enlisted his mom, Nicolina (ph).
DISPIRITO: She literally handles them herself.
CASEY: And just uptown...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning, the Trump organization.
CASEY: Another reality show in the making.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Introducing "The Apprentice," 16 contestants compete to win a six-figure job as Donald Trump's apprentice while living together in New York City.
TRUMP: Let's get down to business.
It's going to be mean and nice and cruel and wonderful and lots of different things. But in the end hopefully we're going to end up with someone who is very exceptional.
After you.
CASEY: Thank you.
A view from the top, as he, Trump, will have to fire one contestant each weekly episode.
CASEY (on camera): So you can't show favor to any one of these, though?
TRUMP: It will certainly be poker face.
CASEY: And you probably have that one down. Can I see your poker face?
TRUMP: I'll give you a poker face.
CASEY (voice-over): And finally, from billionaire to on air. ESPN's upcoming reality spin, contestants compete for a year-long contract as a "SPORTSCENTER" anchor.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No need to worry if the grass is always greener when you're getting the green in your own backyard.
CASEY (on camera): And ESPN says they're still taking applicants. What do I say? Good luck. Whitney Casey, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired June 7, 2003 - 16:24 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Reality TV this go-round won't be all jungle survivors, bug eaters, and sexy cutthroat gold diggers in the coming season. CNN's Whitney Casey is seeing a new trend toward actually facing reality, the reality of the lean job market.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Murray cooks the lamb chops. Do you have everything ready?
WHITNEY CASEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fetching New York City restaurateur.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you understand how lucky I am?
CASEY: A billionaire businessman and his empire.
DONALD TRUMP: You want the chance to work for me?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And an adored ESPN sportscaster.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, glad you're there, along with Neil Everett.
CASEY: Three fabulous jobs for thousands of wannabes who now may actually get to be. This season's crop of reality shows seems to be serving up job market possibility.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Running a restaurant is like trying to achieve the impossibility.
CASEY: And 56-year-old Rocco DiSpirito plans on achieving it under the discriminating purview of producers, editors and some 40 cameras.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got every table covered, the bar and every single table in the dining room covered.
CASEY: His new gig share his moniker, Rocco's, a New York City restaurant, the setting for NBC's new reality show "The Restaurant," the first reality show where anyone who is hungry...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've got to stack the deck.
CASEY: ... can be part of the plot. (on camera): So if you do decide to come here, to Rocco's, to eat, you better have your table manners down, because besides the dozens of cameras you can see, there are also dozens of cameras you can't see.
ROCCO DISPIRITO, RESTAURANT OWNER: There's a little bit of every element in every reality show in this, in the restaurant business, because life's dramas play themselves out in restaurants.
CASEY (voice-over): A really mamoni (ph), that's Italian for momma's boy, Rocco has even enlisted his mom, Nicolina (ph).
DISPIRITO: She literally handles them herself.
CASEY: And just uptown...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning, the Trump organization.
CASEY: Another reality show in the making.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Introducing "The Apprentice," 16 contestants compete to win a six-figure job as Donald Trump's apprentice while living together in New York City.
TRUMP: Let's get down to business.
It's going to be mean and nice and cruel and wonderful and lots of different things. But in the end hopefully we're going to end up with someone who is very exceptional.
After you.
CASEY: Thank you.
A view from the top, as he, Trump, will have to fire one contestant each weekly episode.
CASEY (on camera): So you can't show favor to any one of these, though?
TRUMP: It will certainly be poker face.
CASEY: And you probably have that one down. Can I see your poker face?
TRUMP: I'll give you a poker face.
CASEY (voice-over): And finally, from billionaire to on air. ESPN's upcoming reality spin, contestants compete for a year-long contract as a "SPORTSCENTER" anchor.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No need to worry if the grass is always greener when you're getting the green in your own backyard.
CASEY (on camera): And ESPN says they're still taking applicants. What do I say? Good luck. Whitney Casey, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
