it's escapism and it's aspirational. you want to stand in a hot tub with a glass of champagne? rock on! leach: we'd never seen that kind of wealth ever before. we didn't mock it, we didn't say it was right, and we didn't say it was wrong. we were just through the keyhole. sometimes, you know, it absolutely amazes me. i walk away from a shoot and i think, "well, we did it again." there was more of everything in tv by the '80s. your opportunities for watching stuff is increasingly vast. announcer: nbc presents "real people." my name's michael b. wilson. the thought dawned on me that the application of a small motor on a pair of roller skates might really be a great thing. barbour: somebody once said that each one of us will be a star for 15 minutes. and i think that that's probably going to happen. troy: american culture used to be a culture that celebrated privacy and in the 1980s as we're watching celebrities sort of play out onstage, "hey, i want to join, too." all the world becomes a stage and you start seeing shows