It will beslick, emotionally engineered, served up in bite-size chunks, and cast with people with little connection to "normal" life who will recite what's expected of them because they want to be on TV.
The resident boho crowd may be wary about the slick renovations of local institutions, but they have welcomed recent initiatives at the Kings X Hotel with open arms.
Mr. Howey comes across as a charming, self-deprecating goofball (he posted a video of himself doing ballet on his lawn on YouTube after he signed his publishing deal), but he's proven to be a savage negotiator and slick marketer.