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Tom DeLay on Dancing With The Stars. This is one of those moments that's so grotesque you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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The Alternate Reality Decade
A ten year interval, where otherwise responsible citizens decided that the best way to deal with their problems was to simply ignore them, has ended.
Jersey Shore: The Apotheosis of Reality
A month into the show, I must admit: I absolutely adore MTV's Jersey Shore. After all, Jersey Shore represents the triumph of the American Dream, pure and simple.
Survivor: Samoa Finale: A Confederacy of Douches.
You don't go on Survivor to test yourself against better players. You go on to win a million dollars! The point isn't playing against people who can beat you. The point is to obtain a big wad of cash!
Survivor Finalist Russell Really Is an Ass: Whereas 4th Place Brett Showed Class Will Tell
The point here is to cast light on the devil incarnate of the most recent Survivor, which concluded Sunday night on CBS. Machiavellian is too tame to describe the overconfident and somewhat deluded Russell Hantz.
My Problem with Jersey Shore
Good programming provides us with built-in commentary through nuanced connections between a subculture and our broader culture. Jersey Shore frustrates me because there is absolutely none of this commentary.
Survivor: Samoa: Shambling Towards Bethlehem.
Even more stomach-churning than watching Brett Two-Spears running his fingers through the Shambling One's abundant head fur, was watching Brett hit on Natalie by quoting the Bible at her at length.
The Tiger Woods Effect: Dear Celebrity, Your 15 Minutes are Up
As advertisers scramble to save their campaigns and wives warily eye their husbands' cell phones and golf clubs.... Tiger has created a tsunami. His sordid saga splashes across the globe
Survivor Samoa: "The Lord Frickin' Provides!"
The Prophet Shamble wouldn't have to break her word to God about voting off Dimwit Dave in accordance to reveal his Plan for Survivor: Samoa. This is getting weirder than Lost.
Celibate Celebrity Spotting
The man from an adjacent table, who knows one of my friends and has his other hand on her shoulder, leans between us and confidentially whispers: "That's Jon Gosselin over there getting coffee."
Hollywood Flacks Provide Better Party Security Than the Secret Service
If those two showed up at a party I was working, I would have gladly sent them packing, back to their rented limo. My clipboard was sacrosanct and no deviations were tolerated!
Survivor: Samoa: The Silence of the Chickens
In the last Survivor episode, Shambles' plot to depose the Viper Queen had triumphed, thanks to a flip-vote by John, who avoided a random draw that might send any of them home. This week began Shambles' gleeful return to camp.
Goodbye/Hello 15 "Is Reality Becoming Too Relative?"
With all the hubbub going around about Michaele and Tareq Salahi the aspiring reality-TV stars that crashed the Obama's State Dinner. I decided to g...
The Salahis and the Great Gatsby
How much farther will people go to gain their 15 minutes of fame? I don't think that we have even begun to plumb the depths of depravity to which people will lower themselves in the name of this Warholian American Dream.
Reality TV Goes Too Far
While the Salahis are described as auditioning for a Bravo TV series, and Bravo goes out of their way to say that, there won't be final casting decision for "months". That just isn't how Reality TV works.
The Sahalis: Symbol Of A Decade?
Before simply castigating the Salahis as weird attention seekers like the balloon-boy family, we really do need to draw back and look upon ourselves as individuals, and who we are as a nation.
Reality Life: Not Anything Like Real Life
What do the consequences matter in a culture that seems to honor villains as much as heroes? The Washington Post has featured the Salahis in every issue for six days.
"Reality Stars": Sign Us Up Before We Kill Again
If the Heenes weren't enough, here came the Salahis -- both families obviously just this close to the line of offering to kill family members if only it would get them a TV series.
Survivor: Samoa: Deja Ew!
We had Yasmin From Planet X referring to Shambles as "Shamu." That was a very rude thing to say about a lovely, sweet killer whale, especially coming from a psycho like Yasmin From Planet X.
Survivor: Samoa: Lord of the Gnats
We are right at the midway point of Survivor: Samoa. Our early villains, Evil Russell, and idiot Shambles, have grown into heroic crusaders against a true villain, Evil Laura.
Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air
We have yet to hear any pitch from Palin's supporters that elevates her above any other Republican in the current field of candidates. She's famous. And. Hmm. She's famous. That's it.
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