BY FROMA HARROP The overnight rating for the Kentucky Derby telecast has slipped again, hitting a six-year low. This was despite NBC’s best efforts to fill the hours with such celebrities as Two and a Half Men star Ashton Kutcher and Debra Messing from Smash. Or was it because of them? A romantic 138-year tradition grown from the bluegrass soil and Southern gentility becomes a blob of homogenized commercial promotion. The Kentucky Derby is the […]
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