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The central conceit of Survivor: Island of the Idols, as breathlessly reported in the season’s opening moments, was that two of the greatest Survivor players in history — past winners “Boston Rob” Mariano and Sandra Diaz-Twine — were on hand to mentor the newbies. They weren’t there to play the game themselves, but to camp out on a secret island where individual players would be sent for a crash course on everything from shelter-building to strategy. As gimmicks go, it was a mostly harmless bit of mythmaking, rendered sillier by the set’s gigantic busts of the icons in
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