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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 11:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oprah seemed to want to stress Nutter.. in fact when teenage Jordan and mom were on stage, Oprah spent the first minutes letting Nutter talk.

Teenage Jordan does at least seem to want to do this.

Young Jordan is the one with tons of talent and I like her mom and think they will be ok and successful, BUT, still at one point last night Jordan expressed that Mommy wants me to do this.. so there is still that element. Luckily she's very good at it, and mommy is very good with Jordan.

OK. I take back what I said about Nutterdad.

I wish he'd listen to the shrink.. "you've won the jackpot" meaning the guy had this huge, loving family, supportive wife but he simply refuses to grow up.

At least he says several of his kids aren't auditioning anymore.

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh I forgot...the thing I loved most about the show last night was little Jordan doing her lines first in her "Caucasian" voice and then again in her "Black" voice. She was TOO funny and totally endearing.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh yes.. and I loved her doing the emotions.. this little girl has mad talents!! I want her and mom to live next door!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finally got to watch the tape of last nights show and the Oprah segments.

First, I felt so bad for the Nutter kids on Oprah. All of them had such sad dark eyes. It was like they shared this deep shameful secret, and they were secretly hoping it would be revealed on the show so someone could come rescue them from it. Sadly, people now know, but will they ever be rescued?

I just don't know what to say about Mr. Nutter. I wanted to call him delusional, but I don't know if that quite fits. He is just completely in La-La-Land. When he was going off on those producer guys, and saying how he was sick of everyone trying to make him look like a complete idiot, I'm sure I wasn't the only one who was yelling at the TV, "nobody needs to make you look like a complete idiot fella, you're doing a fine job of it all on your own!"

I almost LOL'ed when his wife said he started to train for the Olympics as a gymnast when he was 22. It reminded me of my sister, who was in her 30's and decided she was an athlete, and would start running and cycling (and racing in both). Her first cycling race, she "trained for a whole week" and was just completely demoralized when these teens and twenty-something kids were lapping her in the race. We tried to tell her part of the reason was these people had been training since they could sit upright on their bikes (you know, as in years sis), but she just didn't get it. She really thought she would be competitive. At least she never expressed delusions of the Olympics. The thing is, she pushed and pushed her body to where it had no resources, and ended up frequently injured, and often sick. And of course, every time we called her and she was in bed with some sort of bad cold or something, she'd lament on how she was "an athlete" and "in good shape" and how she "never got sick." She's paying the price now in her late 40's with a very beaten up body (which she still ignores, now she rides her horse even though the doctors tell her she shouldn't any more. She could even end up paralyzed if she falls off her horse the wrong way one more time).

Emily's mom really just doesn't get it at all. I can't believe she would just blatantly brag to the camera that she gets Emily to behave by bribery. It reminds me of when I worked at the convenience store. A mom/kid duo would come in, the kid would hit the threshold of the store and start screeching at the top of his/her lungs, Mom would run over to the candy aisle, grab an item and shove it in the kid's hand/mouth.

I don't think I've ever seen a segment on little girls and pageants that didn't show how miserable those poor little girls can get. I think they should be outlawed. I mean, dolling those poor little girls up, making them act sexy and all is bordering on kiddie porn IMO.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And did you notice the face Emily's mom made when she was writing out the check for 500 dollars for her dress? She said that she can't spend that much on herself but it's all "okay" because it is for Emily and the pagaents. But the look on her face told a whole other story.

Justalittlebean
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08-15-2003

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 3:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think the Nutter mother looks so sad and afraid. I truly believe she is in a abusive relationship either physically or mentally. I hope when she sees the shows she will realize it and take her children out of that apartment and back to Vermont and away from the freak of a husband/father. Leave him in NY to become whatever he wants.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK, Nutter is dying to be a star, so why not stay in Vermont and be the hero of local theater?

Luvmykitties
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01-02-2004

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 4:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sorry - but I still can't help but think the Nutter's are a marriage of "convenience".

And I think forcing 8 people (1 kid is out on the road) to live in a 1 bedroom apartment in NYC is abusive!

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This guy is just like the Jackson family father.

Domineering male, who proves his 'manhood' by keeping the wife constantly pregnant, then cracking the whip to have the whole family do his bidding.

Listening to him speaking on Oprah, he comes off as a total narcissist.

Woofy
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08-09-2001

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 5:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Luvmykitties, I agree with you completely ... and I think the reason that he dragged the wife and vontrapp children to NYC with him was so that he didn't have the "opportunity" to explore those "off, OFF Broadway" feelings he has building up!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 6:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Luv, it's a 2-bedroom apartment. :-)

(not that that's much better, but in the interest of accuracy...)

Dahli
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11-27-2000

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's what I thought too Woofy......

Avrey258
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06-23-2002

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The thing I do not get about pageants, what is the purpose? I do not buy all that cr@p about poise. This kid is four years old. Spending thousands of dollars dressing her up like a hooker is disgusting.

If she was in her teens and wanted to do it on her own then that is one thing. I just don't get it. Spending all these hours on hair, pretty feet, make-up. For what? Is it worth it spending two days in a Holiday Inn conference room with a handful of other psychos? I really think this is a form of abuse to do this to little girls. O.K., end of rant.

BTW, does anyone know if Shane's voice is changing? He's a cute kid but his singing is really bad.


Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
His mom has made comments that it is.
I don't get the point of little kid pageants except to make the parents feel good.

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amen, Avery!

I think it's a case of these frustrated mothers trying to live their lives through their children.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

His mom has made comments that it is.




I wonder what her excuse for his bad dancing is...

Woofy
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08-09-2001

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
uh, he's no worse than his "back-up" singers ... (or is that "back-up dancers?")

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't you know that puberty also messes up your cooridination?
(I am being sarcastic, but dramatic growth spurts do cause that!)
What were those arm movements he was teaching???

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie.. those movements were, um, "interesting"..

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 3:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ITA about those arm movements. When he told the backup dancers, "and then you do this." and he proceeds to.....whatever that was. I'd hate to have him teach me some movements!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 4:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And the "choreographer" mom only lined them up!!! hello???

Lurkin
Member

02-15-2002

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone ever watch that show, something about Candy, that starred Amy Sedris? Shane simular to the Candy character

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wasn't it Strangers with Candy? And he does!

Missjane
Member

04-28-2004

Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 11:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved it when Emilie Tye told her mom that she had stinky breath.

My skin gets creepy-crawly watching Shane - I feel like I am watching a plane getting ready to crash. The boy CANNOT sing and his mother is delusional if she thinks he will be the next Backseat Boy. I doubt if he was even vomiting - I think his mama was trying to be a drama queen, I mean, poor Shane, he has all these offers! How does one choose?

Jordan Barron is a pain in the butt. She wants to be a STAR but doesn't want to put any effort into learning her lines. Yet last week she is shown crying about how much she is sacrificing. If I were her mother, I would pack up the brat, move to Colorado and let her do children's theater, commercials, etc. there. Her mom needs to put her marraige first or there won't be one.

I am waiting for the Nutterites to give dad the heave-ho and move back to Ben and Jerry Country. I was cracking up at the look Pa gave Ma when she used the word "resented" - you'd think she had lit his pants on fire.

As far as Little Jordan, I don't think she is that great an actor. Her "range" consists of making her eyes big or other mugging for the camera. Mama is always doing her PTL thing. She may think with God all things are possible, but I don't think God would be too thrilled about her daughter's casting in a movie about pedophelia. That is pure greed. In that regard, to me she is just a variation of a pageant mom. She puts Jordan in all the extras to boost her "career" with little time to be a kid. The only difference is that Jordan doesn't have to go for a spray-on fake bake and worry about pretty feet.

Jhezzie
Member

07-05-2001

Friday, May 07, 2004 - 10:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"off, OFF Broadway" feelings

ROTF!!!