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Starshine40
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07-30-2002

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 12:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Starshine40 a private message Print Post    
I see no one has posted lately....

This show is such a feel good show. It's wonderful that ABC, Sears, etc all do so much for these families.

I thought tonight's show about the little 7 yr old twins who both had leukemia was about a wonderful family. I hope the one still recovering does recover fully.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I lost it last night when little Tara said she wished she could be a baby again so she could have more time on earth. That was it for me!

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Did I just miss it or did they not show a bedroom for the 17 yr old son????

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I don't think you missed it Jan, cuz I wondered about that too! Maybe he doesn't live with them??? Is he the son of both of the parents? (seems like a big age gap between him and the girls so maybe the girls/parents are a second marriage and the 17 year old lives with another parent??? I missed the very beginning...)

Landi
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07-29-2002

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i wish that they would do like HGTV's dream house and show the floor plans and 360 degree views of the rooms.

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
They mentioned that he came for a visit every second weekend.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I heard they mentioned he came to visit too, so I'm assuming he's either in college or lives with another parent.

But it seems to me that they probably could afford to give him a bedroom - they build those houses so huge!

Loved the house though, and unlike a lot of other houses I didn't think it was "over the top" huge.

What a touching story -- hopefully lots of prayers went out for that little girl last night.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 5:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
They said the little room he was in was where he slept when he came home on the weekends so I assumed it meant he was in school.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I went and looked at ABC's website and there is a picture of a bedroom that wasn't shown on the show -- I'm guessing that is the son's. They have lots of really nice pictures.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
ahh thanks Roxip. I guess they just ran out of time. I am glad they gave him a room!

BTW, HERE is a link for some pictures

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the link of the home. There were a lot of rooms that we didn't see, it seems. I loved the girl's bedrooms...the candy one for Sara was too cute. I hope Tara continues to recover after the BMT. The twins were adorable together. I cannot imagine having two children diagnosed with cancer. :-(

Jan
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
I guess the airplane room is the son's and the bunkbed room is for guests??? or maybe there are more stepkids as it is very definitely a little girl room???

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    


Yes, this does look like a room for a male. The two bunks beds may be for when they have friends over? It looks like it is close to the play room. I wish they would have shown all of this on the show....wish they still had the second part of the show on Monday nights.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Maybe the bunkbed room is for when all the girls want to have a sleepover together when Tara is feeling well enough...and there was a huge playroom and another living area that wasn't shown.

I would have had a problem as a mother with that "Candyland" room too - a little too much of a good thing!

Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 9:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biloxibelle a private message Print Post    
I keep forgetting to post that the EMHE team was here in Biloxi. They decided that since it would be impossible to pick just one family out of everyone who lost everything. They would do something for the whole community. the built a Katrina Memorial on Biloxi's Town Green. They also built a medical clinic. Ed was also here.

Preston did the memorial and Paulie did the clinic. They had the dedication about 2 weeks ago. I really wanted to go but I didn't. With all the goings on this year Stephanie didn't get her flu shot so I avoid taking her into crowds.

The teams were also in AL and LA. They will be showing it in a 3 part series sometime in March.

Jewels
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09-23-2000

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 9:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jewels a private message Print Post    
That's cool Biloxi, I was wondering if they were going to do anything in that area. My husbands cousin and family lived in Biloxi also. They lost everything.

This show is driving me crazy this year. Rarely do we get to see the whole house. They spend to much time doing silly things with the designers. And if Ty does one more room that has flowers on the wall and a bed on the floor I am going to scream. All his rooms look the same, just different colors. The bed frame is ALWAYS low to the ground and there are ALWAYS flowers on the wall. Whenever he is standing at the door ready to go into his secret room, my husband and I always laugh about what the room is going to be. It just isn't our style, but if he is so talented, can't he come up with something creative besides a low bed, flowers and oh, yeah, slats on the wall or furniture made out of slats of wood. Ugh.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I cried from the moment this show started until the very end. I was so glad that Dunston was able to get home to see his house. Hubba hubba!

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
I loved this episode.I cried the whole way through too.I loved Dunston and his family

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Did you all see that they're starting a Katrina edition starting Thursday??? Thank goodness for dual line tivo!

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
i loved this family, too. what a wonderful sister dunstin had to take on his family responsibilities. i am so glad he made it back home and i continue to google his name to make sure he is still with us!
i tried to organize a blood donor screening in our town when dd's history teacher was dying of leukemia. i had been tested at stanford and all they asked was a pint of blood in exchange for the testing. when i tried to line up a mobile unit to come to our town, i was told they wanted 95 dollars per person to test. i was really upset!
my dd's teacher did end up with 3 great matches, but he died about 8 months after receiving his bone marrow transplant. he had just turned 32 and we were devastated.
it makes me feel so good to know dunstin is still with us! dd's teacher was named 'dustin', so i feel there is another connection besides the need for bone marrow...

i can't wait to see the katrina episodes. i hope they did a lot of wonderful things in the area. even so, it's almost like a thimble-full of help when there is an entire ocean of need. too bad each family that is doing well in the u.s. can't sponsor part of a family in the hurricane areas and just get a tax break for their help. even if it took 25 families to help one family rebuild, we could do it.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I know! This darn show couldn't leave me to have just one night to cry watching tv. They had to spread it out during the week, too!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 24, 2006 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Preston gets me everytime!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 8:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I appreciate the beauty of the homes that they build for these people -- and I certainly think that the recipients of this are deserving -- but why do they have to build such huge McMansions? I would think that a lot of us ordinary folk would have trouble with maintaining such a huge home -- the taxes alone might be astounding, not to mention the insurance, upkeep and the utilities. Is there any reason they can't build a reasonably sized home or does that take the "drama" factor out of it.

Honestly, although I would love to have them tear down my house and build a new one, I wouldn't want one that large. Am I crazy?

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s “creepy wish list” includes kids with Progeria, Down syndrome

Once upon a time, we’d like to imagine that families in need of improved housing contacted Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to be cast on the show.

Now, for its fourth season, the show’s producers are not just sitting around waiting for sad stories to come to them. Instead, they are on the lookout for certain types of families who will make us burst into tears because of their afflictions while we watch them wallow in product-placed objects that will undoubtedly bring joy to their otherwise empty lives. Or something like that.

The Smoking Gun obtained an e.mail message sent from casting director Charisse Simonian that details her “creepy wish list,” as the site calls it. It’s not just the type of people she’s searching for that’s unsettling, but the pure joy her e.mail suggests she’d find if she discovered one of them. For example, one type of diseased kid on her wish list is described as follows:

“Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, referred to as CIPA by the few people who know about it. (There are 17 known cases in the US -let me know if one is in your town!) This is where kids cannot feel any physical pain.”

She also wants a “family who has multiple children w/Down Syndrome (either adopted or biological),” and a family that suffered a home invasion—one that has had a lasting, damaging effect: “kids fear safety in their home now.”


reality blurred

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Web site finds Extreme Makeover's wish list of maladies


By DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press

NEW YORK — If your family has multiple children with Down Syndrome, a parent with skin cancer or was robbed in a home invasion, ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition may be looking to build you a house.

A producer for ABC's hit Sunday-night show sent a memo — distributed to executives at several ABC affiliates — looking for particular maladies or tragedies to feature on the air.

The memo, written by the show's family-casting director Charisse Simonian, was picked up and distributed widely by The Smoking Gun Web site on Monday.

In addition to Down Syndrome and skin cancer, Extreme Makeover is looking for families with very specific diseases — muscular dystrophy, ALS or Lou Gehrig Disease, progeria (a genetic disorder where children age prematurely) and a rare disorder where children cannot feel pain.

Show producers also say they are looking to feature a family that has lost a child in a drunk-driving accident, someone whose home has been robbed and vandalized, and hate-crime victims.

The ABC reality show stars builder Ty Pennington and a team that comes in to build a home for families in need. Cancer victims, people who have lost homes to fire and mold and military families with injured veterans have all been in past episodes.

Currently, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is in the midst of four shows attempting to help communities in the path of Hurricane Katrina.

The show's executive producer, Tom Forman, said he was "a little perplexed" at why The Smoking Gun found the memo so interesting.

"It is a woman whose job it is to find families who need help, to find families that need a break and a new home and may not know about this television show," he said. After filming 60 episodes, producers are looking for new stories to keep things interesting for viewers.


The Smoking Gun headlined its story "ABC's 'Extreme' Exploitation" and said the memo contained a "creepy wish list of woe."

"At the end of the day you're talking about going to someone who needs it badly and deserves it badly and building them a home that makes life a little easier for them," Forman said. "It's hard to figure out how that's exploitive."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/3753198.html