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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 21 June 2018
After 4,000 episodes, a halt for Jerry Springer's show

By DAVID BAUDER During an interview with
Associated Press The Associated Press at
NEW YORK (AP) — his show's 25th anniversary
Somehow it doesn't seem three years ago, Springer
right for Jerry Springer to said that anyone could do
exit quietly. his job if they learned three
There should be one last phrases: "You did what?"
thrown chair or a bleep- ''Come on out!" and "We'll
filled tirade, at the very be right back." He presided
least. Instead, it was over 4,000 episodes.
announced with no fanfare Some of his shows last
this week that he will stop month illustrated that the
making new episodes of formula hadn't changed
his memorably raucous talk much: "Stripper Sex Turned
show, and neither Springer Me Straight," ''Stop Pimpin'
nor his bosses will talk about My Twin Sister," ''My Bestie
it. is Stalkin' You," ''Hooking
"The Jerry Springer Show" Up With My Therapist" and
won't fully disappear; NBC "Babes with Baguettes."
Universal said this week that After more than 4,000
the CW and other networks episodes, it's hard for things
that have bought the show to register on the outrage
in syndication will air reruns meter.
of the slugfest. Producers Between reality television
said "there is a possibility" and the verbal slugfests
that more original episodes of cable television news,
could be ordered sometime there are plenty of places
in the future but, since they viewers can turn for
wouldn't answer questions, experiences that fill the role
it's not known how serious that Springer once did.
that possibility is. "He was lapped not only by
At its heyday in the 1990s, other programs but by real
Springer's show challenged life," said David Bianculli,
Oprah Winfrey for daytime FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, TV talk show host Jerry Springer attends the premiere of the a television historian and
television supremacy Discovery Channel's "Klondike" in New York. professor at Monmouth
with TV studios filled with Associated Press University.
seething spurned lovers, At this point, asking to talk
its gender often fluid serious end-of-civilization- realized he had to do ringmaster who didn't take about Springer's legacy is a
before that was a term as-we-know-it talk. something to distinguish himself too seriously and let little like commenting on an
and everyone spoiling for Springer, a former himself in a competitive you know he was in on the obituary for someone you
a fight. It even provoked Cincinnati mayor who market, was the low-key joke. forgot was alive, he said. q

Review: Fantastic Negrito has great sequel to Grammy winner

By PABLO GORONDI 1996 but a debilitating car has Tom Waits-like bullhorn
Associated Press crash in 1999 — the theme vocals as well as a small
Fantastic Negrito, "Please of this album's cover — oasis of pop sounds. "Bad
Don't Be Dead" (Blackball contributed to a prolonged Guy Necessity" sounds like
Universe/Cooking Vinyl) interval. The debut of this Al Green as the Hulk, all hurt
Fantastic Negrito has new career phase was bravado and aggression.
an incredible, inspiring the 2014 EP "Fantastic "The Suit That Won't Come
backstory but it would be Negrito" and "The Last Off" and "A Cold November
a shame to unwittingly Days of Oakland," which Street" are the most
allow it to overshadow won the Grammy for best traditionally bluesy tracks,
the issue at hand, the truly contemporary blues album though each has twists.
fantastic blend of blues, last year. "Please Don't Be "Never Give Up" is brief and
funk, rock and R&B created Dead" pulverizes any fears Prince-like, with a choir
on "Please Don't Be Dead" of the dreaded sophomore of overdubbed Negritos
by the man born Xavier slump. and "Bull---- Anthem" is
Dphrepaulezz. If album opener "Plastic deep funk with multiple
As Negrito's songs feed on Hamburgers" sounds like a personalities.
his personal experiences, Chris Cornell/Lenny Kravitz Negrito puts himself in the
you should at least know mashup, "Dark Windows" middle of the fray with
that he grew up with is a heartfelt tribute to the "Please Don't Be Dead" —
13 siblings in a Muslim former, whom Negrito such a contemporary title
family which moved from toured with extensively. — and offers his songs for
Massachusetts to Oakland This cover image released by Blackball Universe/Cooking Vinyl "A Boy Named Andrew" the soundtrack of the lives
when he was 12, around shows "Please Don't Be Dead," a release by Fantastic Negrito. alternates a Middle Eastern- of those who won't give
1980. He released an album Associated Press sounding motif with R&B, up and are willing to carry
("The X Factor") as Xavier in while "Transgender Biscuits" on.q