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• In 1948, the first “reality show” aired. It was Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera,” a precursor to MTV’s popular prank show “Punk’d” (currently hosted by pop superstar Justin Bieber and a revolving rotation of young entertainers).

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• In 2008, an additional category was added honoring “Best Reality TV Show Host.” It went to “Survivor” host Jeff Probst, who has since become a repeat winner in the category.

• Reality shows aren’t just influential in the United States. Singer Susan Boyle’s 2009 audition on the UK’s popular show “Britain’s Got Talent” has been viewed 120 million times on YouTube.

• Reality television has also reached the Muslim world. In 2010, a show called “Imam Muda” pitted contestants in a variety of challenges.

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Ichiro Gets His Shot For more than a decade, Seattle has had one name in sports: Ichiro. Now, after a surprise trade, the New York Yankees add his name to the pantheon of greats that have played out their Hall of Fame careers in the Bronx.

Ichiro’s Hall of Fame bona fides are not in any way, shape or form in doubt.

He’s already in the Japanese baseball hall, but let’s consider his career in America so far.

He was the first rookie in Major League Baseball history to win the MVP award (and was considered by voters for that distinction in another eight seasons). He holds the record for hits in a season (262) and, for that matter, is the only player in baseball history to gather 200 hits in a season for 10 years. He has one the batting title twice and has 10 Gold Glove awards on his mantle.

The one thing the 10time all-star is missing is a ring. Well ... that’s likely to change.

Yankee brass pulled off what appears to be a pretty solid trade in shipping D.J. Mitchell and Danny Farquhar to the Mariners minor league system — two righthanders that appear to be solid enough, but expendable for a team like the Yanks.

As for Ichiro, he didn’t get shipped anywhere ... before the Yankees and Mariners were set to square off in Seattle for an evening game, Ichiro simply walked across the hallway and traded his pinstripe suit for a set of Yankee road grays.

Same day, same game trades have happened throughout the course of baseball history. Max Flack was traded from the Chicago Cubs to the St. Louis Cardinals for Cliff Heathcoate in 1922 in the middle of a double header. Guys used to get traded for bags of donuts before the era of guaranteed contracts.

But there were concessions made. According to the Yankees, Ichiro agreed to bat ninth, platoon against left-handers, switch from right to left field and waive his no trade clause.

“One by one, every box got ticked off,” Yankee GM Brian Cashman told ESPN. “Worst-case scenario, I’ve improved my outfield situation. Best-case scenario is a tremendous upside. We might be getting a superstar.”

Cashman is wrong in that regard — he did just get a superstar. Ichiro hasn’t lost much in the physical skill department — he was playing down to his surroundings.

That isn’t without precedent for the Yankees either: Hall of Famer Johnny Mize finished his last five seasons with the New York Yankees under similar conditions and won five World Series rings.

While he will now be just one of the large trees in the forest on an aging, yet starstudded lineup in New York, where the one name in town is “Jeter,” he shifts back into a higher gear. It’s what the greats do, and he’s in the right place to do it, too.

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• The most popular reality show in the United States is “American Idol,” but few know its origins. “Idol” was created in the ‘90s by Simon Fuller. Fuller rose to prominence as the manager, and some would say manufacturer, of pop sensation The Spice Girls. He was so important to the group’s success that the British press dubbed him “Svengali Spice.” When the group suddenly fired him, Fuller devised a way to create a group over which he had full control, thus “Idol” was born.

• “American Idol” was actually supposed to be an online show when Fuller created it in 1997.

However, the lack of high-speed internet in most homes made the idea unfeasible, so Fuller went to television to broadcast his idea instead.

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• “American Idol” is actually a spin-off of a similar program in Great Britain called “Pop Idol.” After agreeing to be one of the judges on the upstart American version, Simon Cowell nearly quit in the last week before the first episode aired. Cowell worried that his confrontational, distinctly British personality would not work with American audiences.

• In the nonfiction book “American Idol: The Untold Story,” author Richard Rushfield interviewed Cowell about his nearly quitting the show before it ever aired. Cowell said, “I remember calling my lawyer, and I said, ‘I don’t want to do it. I haven’t signed the contract. Get me out of it.”

• Fortunately, Fox producers managed to talk Cowell out of abandoning the show. They convinced him he’d have “free rein” and wouldn’t need to alter his abrasive persona for American viewers. One other judge did back out at the last moment, however. Originally, the show was to feature four hosts, but a Los Angeles radio DJ named Stryker quit the show at the last minute.

• Stryker was worried the “cheesy singing contest” would hurt his image. With no time to recast, the show decided to go with three judges instead. In an ironic coincidence, Stryker later served as the house DJ for the daytime talk show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.

DeGeneres was briefly added as a fourth judge on “American Idol.”

• “Idol” fixture Ryan Seacrest nearly wasn’t on the show as well. After being chosen for the show, contract negotiations stalled between the network and Seacrest’s father, who served as his manager. Seacrest signed his contract mere hours before the first episode was shot.

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If you have a newer HD television, you might be able to pick up a few signals if the TV has a built-in digital antenna. If not, there are several HD antennas on the market. If you live in an area where TV signals are traditionally faint, you’ll absolutely need one of these.

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You’ll also need to feed the coaxial cable connecting the antenna back into the house to your television. If possible, try using the holes already drilled by the cable company to install its coax, rather than punch more holes in your home’s envelope.

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No different? Maybe not for his team or his teammates. For Menard, though, it’s a return to a scene he will remember always.

Menard is a long shot to make the Chase. He has to win. Only seven races remain in the NASCAR regular season.

Paul Menard, at right with teammate Jeff Burton, surprised many at Indy last year with his Brickyard victory. Menard is riding close to the Chase this year (15th in the standing), but needs to make some big moves. (John Clark/NASCAR This Week photo) Even, at least once, at the

Pentagon Plans Medals Database Right on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision that it’s perfectly legal to claim medals one has never earned, the Pentagon is doing something it should have done years ago — developing a medals database.

One hurdle to rolling out a comprehensive, accurate database is the fire that occurred in 1973 in the records center in St. Louis.

The records of at least 16 million service members, which included all their medals and service, were lost in that fire. While information for more recent years has been put on computer, earlier files haven’t been digitized — and some are gone for good.

The Pentagon now appears to be ready to take the step of creating a database of the records it does have. Like most efforts involving the government, it might take a while.

At this point, keep an eye on legislation in Congress to replace the original Stolen Valor Act. A few new proposals are out there now, ones that wouldn’t fall within the Supreme Court’s

problem with free speech.

One, by Sen. Jim Webb, focuses on the personalgain aspect of wearing unearned medals. Criminal punishment would include fines and imprisonment.

Senators Scott Brown and Joe Heck have produced revised version of the original legislation that would make it “a federal misdemeanor for someone to profit from lying about their military service, records or awards.”

Don’t let down your guard just yet. While, thanks to the Supreme Court, there’s not much you can legally do about nailing a phony, you can take names and keep your eyes open. Make use of the existing online databases such as The P.O.W Network [www.pownetwork.org]; The Congressional Medal of Honor Society [www.cmohs.org]; and Home of Heroes [www. homeofheroes.com], which has an alphabetical index of 120,000 genuine recipients of major military awards.

Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to column reply@gmail.com. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Say this for Paul Menard.

He can pick them.

The Crown Royal Presents the Curtiss Shaver 400 — named after a firefighter from Alabama — was the 203rd Sprint Cup race of Menard’s career. The last time NASCAR visited Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Menard was the driver who won.

It was quite a story. Menard’s family has a long history at the Brickyard. He is from Eau Claire, Wisc.

Even now, Menard, 31, has only six top-five finishes at the Sprint Cup level. So far this year, his best finish was a sixth in the Daytona 500. He is 15th in the point standings.

Repeating at Indy would seem to require a great deal of magic being re-created.

“I’ve got the trophy in a spot right between my bedroom and the kitchen,” Menard said, “so I walk by it a dozen teams a day, at least.”

If it’s been a humdrum season so far for Menard, it

mirrors the performance of his team, Richard Childress Racing, which hasn’t won a race yet, either. One of Menard’s teammates, Kevin Harvick, ranks sixth in the point standings, but the other, Jeff Burton, is 19th.

“RCR, as a whole, has run competitively this year, but we need to get better

Paul Menard, at right with teammate Jeff Burton, surprised many at Indy last year with his Brickyard victory. Menard is riding close to the Chase this year (15th in the standing), but needs to make some big moves. (John Clark/NASCAR This Week photo) to make the next step up, everywhere from Kevin and myself and Jeff, across the board, and we have been doing some testing, trying to develop some new ideas and theories to get better,” Menard said. “Really, this

“We have to take more risks,” he said. “If it comes to fuel mileage at the end, maybe gamble a little bit to stretch the mileage out.

We are working hard on improving the race cars every week.

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Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette. E-mail Monte at nascarthisweek@ yahoo.com. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) The good news is that your on-the-job status is improving. The one cautionary note, however, involves a personal situation you might have been ignoring for too long.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Congratulations.

Once again, your sharp Sagittarian “horse sense” helps you work through a complicated situation that would leave most people confused.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Plan on indulging yourself in some well-earned good times through much of the week.

Then be prepared to face some thought-provoking issues by the 18th.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Positive factors continue to dominate following a recent change in both your professional and personal lives. Expect to make contact with someone from your past.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Workplace stability allows you to continue making progress on your projects. But don’t ignore your personal life. Spend more quality time with those special folks.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have the gift for making people feel special. Maybe because you know how special you are. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

• It was pioneering British film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock who made the following sage observation: “Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it — as well as contributing to the need for it.”

• The grapefruit is so named not because of any relation to or resemblance to a grape (obviously), but because it hangs from the tree in grapelike clusters.

• Those who study such things say that the three most recognized words in the world are God, CocaCola and Titanic.

• Although darts is a traditionally English pub game, there are now more than three times as many darts players in the United States than there are in the United Kingdom.

• Jazz musician Glenn Miller was the recipient of the first gold record ever awarded, for the big-band hit “Chattanooga ChooChoo.”

• The amount of fuel in a jumbo jet single tank would

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• If you had visited Peru in the mid-1980s, you could have bought toothpaste with cocaine in it.

• Before he became the celebrated author of such novels as “Pale Fire” and “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov was a tennis instructor.

• The longest game in the history of professional baseball was played between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings in April of 1981. It lasted just shy of 8 1/2 hours, and ran for an unbelievable 33 innings.

• It’s traditional in Italy for a prospective groom to spend a full year’s earnings on an engagement ring. *** Thought for the Day: “If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.” — Robert Brault © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Relationships continue to thrive, but watch for any telltale signs of potential problems. Take needed action now to set things straight before they become troublesome later.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your powers of persuasion, backed up, of course, by your considerable expertise, help you establish your case even to the most dubious decision-makers in your workplace.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might still be a bit reluctant to face up to some less-than-pleasant realities.

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CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Expect to make adjustments, even when things seem locked up and ready to go. But cheer up: At least one change could lead to something you’ve been hoping for.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) The success of a recent project should do a lot to boost your self-confidence.

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VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Ease up on the pressure you might be putting on the new person in your life. It takes time for a budding relationship to blossom. Show more patience and understanding.

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Jeremy Renner “I didn’t know what to say to either of them! Everyone in the room was staring at us. I couldn’t wait for their table to be ready!”

Apparently, Lady Gaga has taken Lindsey under her wing to help her get back on track, now that “Liz & Dick,” about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,” is in the can. My advice to my friend was,

“Don’t worry; with two ladies like Lindsey Lohan and Lady Gaga, you’d never get a word in edgewise anyway!” *** While most of us are trying to stretch our paycheck to cover our bills, some of our favorite television stars are living high on the hog. Simon Cowell pulls in $40 million, David Letterman makes $31 million, Matt Lauer is getting $25 million and Bill O’Reilly gets $16 million. Ryan Seacrest sees $15 million from “American Idol” alone, without what he gets from The E Network and his radio shows. Jon Stewart gets $14 million from “The Daily Show,” while Stephen Colbert makes only $4.5 million, Jimmy Kimmel earns $6 million and Ellen DeGeneres makes a mere $5 million. But the biggest paycheck of all goes to “Judge Judy” Sheindlin, who is making a whopping $45 million a year.

Apparently talk is cheap, but sitting in judgment is where it’s at if you want to make the big bucks!

Send letters to Tony Rizzo’s Hollywood, 8306 Wilshire Blvd., No. 362, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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HOLLYWOOD — While everyone on magazine shows is talking about the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes split, the pre-nup, how skillfully Katie pulled off the break, how Cruise is weathering it all ... the rumor mill already has moved on.

Insiders are speculating that he’s being consoled by his “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” co-star and “special” friend Jeremy Renner. Renner, twice Oscar nominated for “The Hurt Locker” (2009) and “The Town” (2010), featured in “Thor” and “The Avengers,” and making it big with “The Bourne Legacy,” has developed a “special” bond with Cruise.

For some time, the Internet has buzzed about Renner’s “special” friendship with actor Kristoffer Winters, his partner in a house-flipping business. Winters is best known for Renner’s film “The Hurt Locker,” “Dude, Where’s My Car” and “Contact.” You have to draw your own conclusions about rumors, but there’s usually some truth underlying them. Funny how time has a way of making the truth come out into the open! *** What if you were having dinner with a friend at a

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Maxie and Lulu discussed their shared concern for Patrick. Wait to See: Sam confides in her sister about her feelings for McBain.

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Since we spent some time on the stars of reality television, it seems appropriate to allot a little space to the medium that provided them stardom.

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