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TV Media Weekly | March 3 - 9, 2018 By Adam Thomlison TV Media Q: Do you have to pay any fees to be on "America's Next Top Model"? A: Not only do you not have to pay a fee to apply, depending how far you get in the process, they ac- tually start paying you (a little). The audition process is divid- ed into preliminary, semifinal and final rounds (note that this is before the show even begins). There's no fee to enter, and if you make it to the final round, the show pays to fly you to Los Angeles for the final interview and gives you a daily cash al- lowance while you're there. CW has put all of the applica- tion instructions and eligibility requirements up on its website for all to see, and they make ap- plying surprisingly easy — you don't even have to leave your house. You can do it all by mail by sending in an application form along with photos of your- self, copies of your ID, and a three-minute video. This fits with the show's gen- eral approach of becoming in- creasingly open and accessible to all sorts of people. It first made waves by changing its rules to allow guys as well as girls, then later removed its height restriction and most re- cently its age restriction. Q: The end scene in "The Goonies" talks about an oc- topus attack, but I've seen it a dozen times and there's no octopus. A: The octopus attack was cut from the 1985 adventure classic "The Goonies," but as you point out, it wasn't cut entirely. What remains is a quick refer- ence to the scene by one of the characters, but the scene itself was cut. This would seem like a mistake on the part of the film- makers, and technically it was, but star Sean Astin argues that it reflects a particular approach to filmmaking that is part of the movie's charm and makes it im- possible to reproduce. "No one would let a big-bud- get studio movie go through now with that level of playful- ness-cum-inattentiveness." Dur- ing a talk at New York's Bor- oughCon 2017 convention, As- tin pointed to all sorts of mis- takes that made it into the final cut of the film (for example, at one point his character refers to Josh Brolin's character as Josh). But he argues that keeping the octopus scene would have been a bigger mistake. "The oc- topus just ... always sucked." Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Personal replies will not be provided. Hollywood Q&A By Andrew Warren TV Media Q uick, someone call store security — Fla- vortown Market's judges are running amok! At the best of times, "Guy's Grocery Games" can sometimes feel like organized chaos, but if the judges them- selves abandon their posts, then it's anyone's guess as to what host Guy Fieri may be up to. A new season of the cooking competition gets underway Sun- day, March 4, on Food Network, with a very special episode titled "Judge vs. Judge." None of "Tri- ple G's" long-established rules are safe as Guy tosses them out and challenges some of the show's most familiar judges to a series of one-on-one, head-to- head culinary battles. In the first round, "Food Net- work Star" winner Justin War- ner brings his new school style of cooking in a faceoff against celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito's old school cuisine. Unlike a nor- mal "Grocery Games" contest, though, the second round fea- tures an entirely new pair of competing judges, with grilled cheese master Eric Greenspan battling it out for supermarket superiority against chef Aaron May. Finally, in Round 3, chef Carl Ruiz and restaurateur An- tonia Lofaso go head to head. Don't worry, though: "Guy's Grocery Games" hasn't perma- nently changed up its success- ful formula. After all, with an incredible 16 seasons behind it, it must be doing something right. This season's next epi- sode, airing Wednesday, March 7, is a themed episode that's sure to get every carnivore's mouth watering: bacon. Four bacon-loving chefs are in Fla- vortown Market competing for a shot at the $20,000 prize, and Guy's ready to throw curveball after curveball at them as they zip around the supermarket shopping for their bacon-fo- cused dishes. Even when it veers off its well-worn path, "Guy's Grocery Games" never strays too far from its winning premise: chefs preparing amazing dishes in a supermarket, with fun twists and speedbumps all tying into the all-too-familiar setting. It's that setting that's set "Triple G" apart from similar cooking com- petitions and helped it carve out its own unique identity. The new season premieres Sunday, March 4, on Food Network. The judges are let loose in 'Guy's Grocery Games' 10 | Cooking this week Sunspot 2 x 2" Vicker's Graphics 2 x 1.5" Tech Repairadise 2 x 1.5" Brian Malarkey, Catherine McCord and Troy Johnson as seen in "Guy's Grocery Games"