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Danzdol
| Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 12:42 pm
oh yeah that Michael crying scene was total acting......he was horrible and non convincing. I can't believe they were falling for it.
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Froggiegirl621
| Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 8:56 am
These girls really annoy the CRAP outta me! I just want to throw my remote through the tv sometimes when they say such stupid things...but, I keep on watching every Tuesday night at 10:30. Boy am I a glutton for punishment!
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Squaredsc
| Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 9:35 am
lol froggie. i watched it last nite. i do wonder at their fashion sense though.
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Chellemmm
| Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 2:33 pm
Not only did Jamie say that Ben Franklin invented the light bulb, she said it as she was pondering whether or not she was the reincarnation of either Benjamin Franklin or MUHAMED ALI. Last time I checked he was alive.
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Nathalia
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 6:01 pm
I don't understand how Jaime can charge up $9500 a month on her Mom's AMEX card yet they don't have enough couches for guests to sit on! Jaime's "house" (which is probably just an apartment in Trump Tower) does not look like money to me. Is it just me..or has anybody else noticed how messy (in a clean way)/small this apartment looks?
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Ericzj
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 6:42 pm
Nobody has "just an apartment" in Trump Tower. That building is a palace. Whereas where I live it IS just an apartment. Note: Those girls are so clueless I'd love to be there when some small bit of reality hits their tiny little world. Maybe that's what MTV was hoping for?
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Chieko
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 8:47 pm
Jamie may not have been so far off "Perhaps Edison's most famous inventions were the phonograph, motion pictures and the light-bulb. Truth be told, however, he really didn't "invent" the lightbulb, but rather he improved upon the technology by developing a light-bulb that used a lower current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe. Edison's invention lead to a reliable, long-lasting source of light." quote from this website {http://www.ipwatchdog.com/hall_of_fame/thomas_edison.html,http://www.ipwatchdog.com/hall_of_fame/thomas_edison.html}
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Jhezzie
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:39 am
Who told these two that trucker hats are becoming? They don't even look good on truckers.
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Texannie
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 6:59 am
Ashton Kutcher
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Guinevere
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 4:58 pm
I HATE trucker hats. Hated them even when they were trendy, and I believe they're passe now, so they can just go away. I found last night hard to watch, even with my back turned (I was on the computer but had the sound up). These girls are so banal, and their lives aren't interesting in the least. I'm sick of their whining about their feelings. Even if it's realistic for 18-year-old girls to be so self-involved - and I suppose it is, for some - it doesn't make for compelling tv. Turning down a trip to Greece, even if you're in "a bad place emotionally", or whatever it was, is just not going to make me very sympathetic to you. Also, while the show is obstensibly about these girls' glamorous lives - they really aren't very sophisticated, are they? They seem as gauche and unworldly as a lot of girls their age. So I'm not sure why they are so special, or worthy of being followed around by a film crew. I don't mean to sound too hostile. I don't hate these girls, I'm just sick of them and probably should stop watching their damn show.
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Denecee
| Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 9:20 am
I enjoy watching these girls, especially right after "The simple life". They are 5 yrs younger than Paris & Nicole but act so much more mature. I like Allie. She's fun but the other one is just too depressed, poor girl.
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Guinevere
| Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 2:42 pm
I actually find them harder to take than Paris and Nicole. They're such navel-gazers. They take themselves too seriously and Jaime always seems to be pissed about something. On TSL, at least Nicole is always laughing. I guess what they say is true - money doesn't buy happiness.
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Denecee
| Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 3:54 pm
Paris & Nicole's show does make me laugh more and you are right about Jaime. They are such serious young ladies.
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Scorpiomoon
| Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 9:16 pm
Holy macaroni! MTV Canada is showing a marathon of this show right now. I can't believe how UNLIKABLE these girls are! Alley is a total ditz and has no charisma. Jamie looks so angry and miserable. What the hell is her problem? God knows I can't stand Paris Hilton, but she'd be way more fun and amusing to hang out with than these two. Aye, aye, aye! This show SUCKS!
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Gemma120in2002
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 10:22 pm
Guenevere, Navel-gazers! LOL! Are they contemplating their own navels or are they in the position to be examining someone else's navel? LOL! I haven't see the show but that was so funny!
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Mamie316
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 8:03 pm
Jamie does always look so miserable and angry. She actually looks just like her mother. Did you see the one with her father on it? He looked like he didn't even know where he was! Are her parents still married? And Ally tries so hard to be deep and thoughtful, she thinks she would be a good "tree"...no arguement there!
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Scorpiomoon
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 8:36 pm
Mamie316: I saw the epsiode when Jaime's and Ally went to dinner with Jaime's parents. (He had was complaining about Sex & The City). I remember her saying her parents divorced but stayed friends. He father, if I remember correctly, is almost 80. I can't figure out what planet Ally is on. I felt so bad for the TH employees the day TH brought in the girls to look at the new clothing line. I know I'd be pissed if I had worked hard on a project and my boss brought in his kid to tell me it was crap.
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Danzdol
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 1:21 pm
yup, that is exactly what happened. When they were both leaving with Tommy Hillfiger, they were saying "the entire line will have to be redone" As an interior designer, that has happened to me when I meet with a wife who fails to bring her husband in to the meeting and then when the husband sees everything I have to start all over again. I no longer do that. I require everyone who has a say to be in the first meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fabnsab
| Friday, December 26, 2003 - 12:00 am
I just watched the marathon. I have no doubts that Jamie comes from money but I don't think she is nearly as rich as Ally. The Hillfigers have homes everywhere and it seems that Jamies family just have their apartment. I expected them to stay at her house in the Hamptons but they stayed at a hotel. Really rich people would at least have friends to stay with. Also, she returned her Prada bag because the vet bill was $5000. I know she said it was just the principle of it but still. I have spent $5000 on animal care before and didn't think twice and I am far from rich.It seems odd that they mention it like its alot of money to them. I know it is alot but if you're rich, 5 grand seems piddly.
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Scorpiomoon
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:08 am
Interesting article from the NY Times: In the End, 'Rich Girls' Has It All Over 'The Simple Life' By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Published December 30, 2003 Because of thematic similarities, two programs are often compared that are in fact entirely different from each other. MTV's "Rich Girls," which started in October, and Fox's "Simple Life," which started this month and ends tonight, received this treatment. Some viewers may not have learned to tell them apart. This would have been a grave mistake. "The Simple Life," a mediocre show, was created almost entirely before and after production. First the network came up with a time-tested concept that would be cheap to shoot: two cosseted, telegenic city girls — Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie — are sent to live on a farm. After shooting, editors diced up the material into short scenes to make it funny. Many of the punch lines in "The Simple Life" are merely cutaways to small-town bystanders looking blank. Or to the stars looking blank. These shots could have been pulled from anywhere in the show's action, and might have had nothing to do with the matter at hand; when juxtaposed against regional behavior, however, they seemed to point up broad cultural contrasts. The show also thrived on images of the sulky, coltish Ms. Hilton. Still, it was thin gruel. "Rich Girls," by contrast, was made, and made well, in the production. Ally Hilfiger and Jaime Gleicher, awkward but intelligent New Yorkers with quick tongues, were said to have proposed the show themselves. Indeed, they have eccentricities worth showing off. Tonight, as the two part ways in the season finale (one for Barnard, the other for hard labor in the fashion world), it will be hard to bid them, and their adolescent willingness really to reveal themselves, goodbye. Newly out of high school, the girls have spent nine episodes of the show cannily concerned with how best to dramatize themselves, using (primarily) contemporary clichés of mental health. They have confused relationships with their parents, especially Ms. Gleicher's peerlike mother, and Ms. Hilfiger's abstracted father. Their own friendship also has complex fractures. In short, the fact that they're rich doesn't turn them into stick figures; it just gives them a broader platform on which to act their age. The girls on "Rich Girls" are fascinating to watch, especially as they ham up the manic-depressive trials of adolescence. Ms. Gleicher, whose father founded Innovation Luggage, has an almost magical face: When she smiles, she's all benevolence and charisma, but when she's at ease, her expression drops to a profound and horrible frown, made more grim by the lipstick-smeared cigarette she often shoves into it. She uses this dichotomy in her face to wield power, making her friends and her mother work for that smile. But she also rides the frown too hard, claiming, whenever attention to her wanes, that she's having "attacks" of various kinds. This got her in a real bind when she traveled to London with Ms. Hilfiger and a childhood friend of Ms. Hilfiger. Threatened by the third party and determined to monopolize the attention of her would-be bosom buddy, Ms. Gleicher overused the dark face, driving Ms. Hilfiger, a coquettish friend who is wily in her own ways, to snub Ms. Gleicher as a downer. The frown deepened, as she appeared overcome with melancholy and claustrophobia. (Ms. Gleicher is at work on a novel.) Ms. Hilfiger, who is the daughter of the designer Tommy Hilfiger, has opposite problems. Where Ms. Gleicher's histrionic mother hovers over her daughter, involving herself entirely in Jaime's life, Ms. Hilfiger's parents are emotionally distant, caught up in their own new romances and purchases. In a show of fatherly love, Mr. Hilfiger lets his daughter ride with him in his new Ferrari. She, in turn, longs to be an asset to him, advising him (at his behest) on his clothing collections, like a mother dressing her son. Fixing, sporadically, on the idea that she has been "denied a childhood" by life and her fickle parents, Ms. Hilfiger has created her own constellation of disorders that must be tended to. She repeatedly tells her friends that she's too long played the peacemaker and the caretaker, and she needs now to be babied herself. When, in London, she positions herself so disingenuously as the coy object of desire between Ms. Gleicher and the childhood friend, it's almost amazing she gets away with it. At the same time, Ms. Hilfiger — alone among the moneyettes on reality television this season — appears genuinely determined to be self-sufficent as she throws herself into various tasks (cooking, charity) and searches for an apartment. In lieu of college, however, she has opted to work in the Hilfiger empire for a year. Where "The Simple Life" remains a one-liner, "Rich Girls" has proceeded as a novel. Ms. Hilton and Ms. Richie look blank, submitting to editing-room makeovers, while the Gleicher-Hilfiger duo make their own jokes, confound expectations and vigorously interact with the world.
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Jhezzie
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 1:06 am
Hmm. Virginia must be a friend of the family.
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