Our efforts to understand the surprising aesthetic success of "TMZ" on television continue apace. The Daily News' David Bianculli notes that the show "is all attitude, all the time, from Harvey Levin's hyperkinetic staff meetings—some self-aware stage business that serves as a teasing table of contents—to the stories themselves, which are paced and edited so briskly that some seem almost subliminal," and he might have a point. Take, for instance, this encounter between Mike Tyson and a fan in the parking lot of a mini-mart. Why do I care? I don't know. And yet I'm compelled to watch it! Bizarre.

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