Answer me this Is Allen Iverson television's next reality star? Richard Deitsch Posted: Tuesday August 9, 2005 12:49PM; Updated: Wednesday August 10, 2005 11:20AM http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/richard_deitsch/08/09/iverson Those who saw Allen Iverson's appearance last week on the debut of ESPN 2's Quite Frankly were rewarded with something increasing rare on television these days: the unexpected. There was Iverson, equal parts raconteur and provocateur, offering unfiltered opinions on everything from the atmosphere of last year's Sixers' team ("Everybody uptight, everybody seemed like they were mad all the time") to media coverage of a long-ago domestic dispute ("Man, they even said I threw my wife out naked. I don't want nobody to see my wife naked, period. So what makes you think I'm going to send her out of the house for everybody to see her naked. ... Why would I expect somebody to look at me as a man if I did that to my wife?") to a self-critique ("I'm not perfect. I'm not even 50 percent perfect."). 上周有看 ESPN 2 的 "Quite Frankly" 节目的观众们有福了，因为当晚的来宾 Allen Iverson 让他们见识到了现在电视上越来越少见的东西： 不可预料的插 曲。只见到 Iverson 在节目中侃侃而谈，不分你我，百无尽忌，滔滔不绝的从 去年七六人队上诡异的气氛 ("每个人皮都绷的紧紧的，活像他们每分每秒都在 生气")，谈到喧扰一时的家庭不和事件 ("老兄，他们居然说我把我老婆光溜溜 的赶出家门。我才不想让其他人看到我老婆光溜溜的，就这样。所以， 我真不 懂你们为什麽觉得我会把光着身子的老婆赶出家门。...如果我这样对我老婆， 以後我还能够希望别人把我当个真男人看吗？")，甚至自我检讨。( "我不是完 美的，我连完美的一半都不到。") The show even included an Oprah moment: Tears welled up in Iverson's eyes as he watched a tape of former coach Larry Brown speaking of his love for Iverson and his former player's potential to make an impact on kids. While it's far too early to make any critical judgment of Stephen A. Smith as a talk-show host, one thing is clear: Allen Iverson is a television star. 节目中甚至还有"真情指数"的桥段 :当 Iverson 看到 VCR 中 Larry Brown 谈 到他对自己的爱，以及这位前爱将对小孩的影响力时， Iverson 的眼泪差点就 夺眶而出。 虽然现在评论 Stephen A. Smith 当脱口秀主持人的功力还嫌太早 ，但有件事是千真万确的: Allen Iverson 是一个电视明星。 Two years ago Mark Shapiro, ESPN's executive vice president of programming and production, told Sports Illustrated that Mike Tyson was at the top of his wish list for an athlete reality show subject. That was then, and this is now: They don't make reality shows about missionaries. "It's unfortunate that our viewers would find a reality series on an explosive figure like Mike Tyson uncompelling," Shapiro says. "[But] a life of caring for underprivileged people, as [Tyson] says he's going to do, just isn't as riveting as the ticketing-time-bomb life." 两年前 ESPN 企划制作部的副执行总裁 Mark Shapiro 告诉运动画报的记者， Mike Tyson 是他运动员真人实境秀的首选。然而时至今日，情况已经有变。他 们对於制作传教士的真人实境秀可没半点兴趣。"很不幸的，像 Mike Tyson 这 麽一位有爆炸性的人物，他的实境秀却会没有半点吸引力。"Shapiro 说。"[但 ][Tyson] 说他接下来要做的，是关怀弱势族群，这样的节目，实在不如分秒必 争的人生那样吸引观众的目光。 Shapiro has a new star in mind. "We'd love to do a reality series on Allen Iverson," he said prior to Iverson's appearance on Smith's show. "[Allen's] life is mile-a-minute. If we could have a no-holds-barred, all-access, 24-7 reality series in the life of athlete X, Allen Iverson would be at the top of the list." Would Iverson be interested? His agent, Leon Rose, told SI.com this week that Iverson would at the very least entertain a offer from Shapiro. "It's flattering," Rose said. "Allen is a private person but I'm sure if ESPN made a proposal, he would look at it." Stay tuned. Shapiro 的脑中已有了新的人选。 "我们很希望能够做 Allen Iverson 的实境 秀。"他说这句话的时候， Iverson 还没有去上 Smith 的节目。" Allen 的生 活是瞬息万变，一日千里。如果我们可以在最近距离，毫无限制， 全天候的贴 近这位运动界另类天才，Allen Iverson 就会是我们的第一目标。" Iverson 会有兴趣吗？本周，他的经纪人 Leon Rose 告诉运动画报的记者，如 果 Shapiro 邀请他， Iverson 最少最少还是会考虑一下。 "这是很令人受宠若惊的，" Rose 说。" Allen 很注重隐私，但我确信如果 ES -PN 邀请他，他会看看的。" 别转台，好戏还在後头呢。 --

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