Amber, The Bikinis, The Beaver Museum, The Wedding
By RTVC Editor Ron Lemon
June 28, 2004
This is history? The Beaver Area Historical Museum of Western Pennsylvania will preserve the cloth that protected Survivor All Star winner Amber's posterior for all posterity. RTVC is headquartered in Western Pennsylvania, something of which we were proud until today. According to the AP "the bikinis she wore, a boomerang from an immunity challenge, a leather canteen and a blindfold," are included in an exhibit on firefighting. An unidentified museum board member spins it like this: "There are people making history right now in 2004, and Amber is certainly one of those." And besides, these are Amber's Bikinis man, and this is the Beaver Area Historical Museum, ain't it a hoot!
Ok, I made up the last part, but that's all.
Meanwhile, Amber Brkich and runner-up "Boston" Rob Mariano are still a couple but so far there are no wedding plans. Commenting on their current celebrity, Amber says, "We don't care about being hot." Maybe so, but they are milking it; Rob says we "fly everywhere first class, get put up in the penthouse suite, people offer us huge sums of money just to show up at places -- you would be stupid to turn that down.
Survivor producer Mark Burnett wants to use that fame and produce Rob and Amber's wedding for TV. Burnett says, "Obviously, the wolves are circling around them, trying to profit from young love." And Burnett won't profit from it? Well at least if he produces it there will be something other than pink. Burnett goes on to say, "They understand the dangers. If the wedding reveals them to be the funny, vulnerable, and interesting people that I know them to be, away from the Machiavellian game, then people will come to like the at-home Rob and Amber. I don't want it to be some reality television farce. I would like to work with them and protect them." Rob needs protection? He tells The Boston Globe, "Mark Burnett is very interested in producing our wedding." Rob will let Burnett produce it when Burnett comes up with a package that satisfies Rob and there is nothing Machiavellian about that.
