Archive through May 27, 2002
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Archive through May 27, 2002
Twiggyish | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 06:56 pm     I think he frightened the poor thing even worse!! How many people tear up their furniture to chase a cat? |
Tksoard | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 07:15 pm     Does anyone know if they were on 20/20 yet?  |
Misslibra | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 07:17 pm     So far they have not been on yet TK. |
Misslibra | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 07:22 pm     TK they wont be on until tomorrow, just saw the commercial. |
Tksoard | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 07:26 pm     OK thanks MissL!!  |
Misslibra | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 08:57 pm     TK I'm a little a head of myself, they will be on 20/20 Friday. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 10:15 pm     I think it is on Friday, definitely.. three moms.. Sharon, Whoopi and Diana Ross. Must tape that. |
Ocean_Islands | Thursday, May 09, 2002 - 03:36 am     I will definitely not tape that. |
Soeur | Thursday, May 09, 2002 - 04:00 pm     you might be sorrieee....! |
Seamonkey | Thursday, May 09, 2002 - 04:08 pm     I just mean to tape the osbourne portion. |
Maris | Thursday, May 09, 2002 - 07:07 pm     here is my question, your kid comes home with his friend Jack Osbourne and tells you that he is going over to jacks house to spend the weekend.... what do you do??????????? |
Soeur | Thursday, May 09, 2002 - 08:22 pm     Insist on going along  |
Seamonkey | Friday, May 10, 2002 - 07:48 pm     Reminder.. The Osbournes will be on 20/20 tonight. They also just signed a book deal. |
Seamonkey | Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:29 pm     My new favorite Sharon quote.. when told that a therapist said they are teaching their kids to shout. "They can kiss my freshly-lipo'd arse".
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Seamonkey | Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:31 pm     AND.. the 20/20 guy (Barbara's new sidekick, not John Stossel, who interviewed Sharon, Kelly and Jack) said that they've signed up for TWO more seasons with MTV!!! |
Tksoard | Friday, May 10, 2002 - 10:49 pm     I just hope that the next seasons are as good as this season. I'm afraid that it might go to their heads, and they might start to "act". Cause remember, we are seeing them from last fall-winter. They didn't know they were going to get THIS kind of reaction.  |
Twiggyish | Saturday, May 11, 2002 - 08:13 pm     Yup, I think so too TK. You know we'll all tune in to see..LOL |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 01:50 pm     OZZY OSBOURNE NEWSLETTER - May 14, 2002 __________________________________________________ OZZY TO PLAY QUEEN'S JUBILEE CONCERT Remarkable. Incredible. Unbelievable! Just days after Ozzy met the President and was the toast of Washington at the Press Correspondents Dinner the Queen of England decides she wants in on some of the insanity. It was announced yesterday that Ozzy will appear at the May 3 concert at Queen's Concert at Buckingham Palace to sing the Sabbath classic "Paranoid". Other acts performing at the event include Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, and Rod Stewart. __________________________________________________ OZZY HONORED WITH PRISM AWARD FOR "JUNKIE" Ozzy was honored with a Prism Award on Thursday for showing an accurate depiction of drug, alcohol, or tobacco addiction in his song "Junkie". The sixth annual awards, also presented in the fields of film, television, interactive media, and comic books, are given out by the Entertainment Industries Council. __________________________________________________ "The Osbournes" Apparel Available Now! Men's tee's and women's baby-doll shirts are available now! Click through to: http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/fanfire.woa/6/wo/OgXhvd178tayz F8VOM50zM/0.1.18.3.2.1 to place your order. More merch on The Osbournes front coming very soon! ___________________________________________________ http://www.ozzy.com http://www.ozzfest.com |
Grooch | Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 02:07 pm     From the NY Post OH, CURSES! $100,000 OZZY ADS By DAN KAPLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 14, 2002 -- 'THE Osbournes" have shown MTV the money. TV's favorite family snagged the most expensive advertising rates for an entertainment show in the history of cable TV for the show's March 5 finale. Some sponsors paid as much as $100,000 for a 30-second spot, according to the industry trade magazine Advertising Age. Before it became an overnight smash, "The Osbournes" was fetching between $10,000 and $15,000 for a 30-second spot. Nailing the highest ratings on cable, "The Osbournes" is billed as the world's first reality sitcom and has become an overnight smash, landing at the top of cable's ratings chart with nearly 8 million viewers. Until now the record for the highest advertising rates for a cable entertainment show was held by "South Park." Media executives say that at the time "South Park" was fetching between $80,0000 and $90,000 per spot. The all-time record for cable advertising continues to be ESPN's "Sunday Night Football" which regularly gets between $125,000 to $135,000 per 30-second spot. |
Seamonkey | Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 07:33 pm     OZZY OSBOURNE NEWSLETTER - May 16, 2002 ______________________________________________________ OSBOURNE FAMILY HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE ALBUM Yesterday in New York, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne held a press conference to announce the forthcoming release of The Osbourne Family Album, due in stores June 11. (Ozzy was there, too, via satellite from England where he is rehearsing for Ozzfest.) The CD features songs old and new, each selection hand-picked by members of the Osbourne family, with Kelly Osbourne making her recording debut with her high-spirited rendition of the Madonna hit, "Papa Don't Preach". According to Kelly, "It was never something that I thought I'd ever do and I guess I do owe it to my sister [Aimee]. She suggested, along with my brother, that I do it, and I really enjoyed doing it." A music video was recenly lensed in Los Angeles by director Marcus Siega and is in the final editing stages. In related news, Kelly will make her first-ever public appearance as an artist at the KIIS-FM, Los Angeles "Wango Tango" concert at the Rose Bowl June 15. The Osbourne Family Album tracklisting: 1. Pat Boone "Crazy Train" (The Osbournes' former neighbor's take on Ozzy's biggest hit was the inspiration behind the theme song on the television show.) 2. Ozzy Osbourne "Dreamer" 3. Kelly Osbourne "Papa Don't Preach" 4. The Kinks "You Really Got Me" (This classic gave Ozzy his first taste of Rock & Roll.) 5. System of a Down "Snowblind" (Their version of the Black Sabbath classic, produced by Rick Rubin. Jack thought this song never got the recognition it deserved.) 6. John Lennon "Imagine" (Ozzy and Sharon fell in love to this song while they were dating.) 7. The Cars "Drive" (A personal favorite of Aimee Osbourne when she was younger.) 8. Starsailor "Good Souls" (live - previously unreleased) 9. Dillusion "Mirror Image" (Jack is working to develop this act who were signed when the young Osbourne was a mere 15.) 10. Eric Clapton "Wonderful Tonight" (Sharon and Ozzy used to play this while getting ready for a night on the town.) 11. Ozzy Osbourne "Mama, I'm Coming Home" 12. Ozzy Osbourne "Crazy Train" bonus track: 13. Chevelle "Family System" RELEASE DATE: JUNE 11 through Epic Records. _________________________________________________________ OZZFEST DATE CHANGES Due to scheduling conflicts the following Ozzfest show dates have been changed: * Ozzfest at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View originally scheduled for Thursday, August 29th has been changed to Sunday, August 25th. * Ozzfest at AutoWest Amphitheatre in Sacramento originally scheduled for Sunday, August 25th has been changed to Saturday, August 24th. Also, the second Detroit (Clarkston, Mich.) show, scheduled for August 8, went on sale over the weekend. The August 7 show is now sold-out. __________________________________________________________ OTV RETURNS FOR SECOND SEASON Last year we brought you 27 original video "episodes". We have bigger plans this year. The new "season", if you will, has just launched with episodes on crazy Japanese Ozzy fans and also a neat peek into Ozzy's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. If you weren't one of the 2000 people that attended the ceremony, watch the episode and YOU ARE THERE! Upcoming episodes: interviews and live footage of Down and Hatebreed, who are headlining the second stage this year. Click on the OTV link at http://www.Ozzfest.com __________________________________________________________ AUSTIN POWERS VISITS CHEZ OSBOURNE, CAMEO FILMED IN KITCHEN Mike Myers, the world's greatest and funniest private eye in his Austin Powers role, made a visit to the Osbourne home the day before the family departed for England to ask if they would make a cameo in the latest installment of the series, this one dubbed "Austin Powers: Goldmember". Not really sure what the O's did in the cameo but you can bet it will be outrageously funny! "Austin Powers: Goldmember": In theaters July 26. __________________________________________________________ http://www.ozzy.com http://www.ozzfest.com |
Grooch | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 11:15 am     Ananova: Ozzy's son doesn't find TV series very funny Jack Osbourne says MTV's reality show The Osbournes is just like watching a home video. He says he doesn't find the series very funny. The 16-year-old says he is sometimes embarrassed about what is shown on the screen. Jack told the new issue of Spin magazine: "I didn't think it was that funny but everyone else thought it was hilarious." He admits he was embarrassed when his mum asked "Do you think Jack needs to go on medication?" during the series. Story filed: 10:12 Monday 20th May 2002 RELATED |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 - 04:19 pm     Story in my paper by Alex Kuczynski of the NY Times. (and don't people know that just trying to clone something mostly doesn't work??) Ozzy sets the bar for reality television Trends . The aging rocker's successful MTV series has celebrities scrambling for shows of their own. Cybill Shepherd, the former star of "Moonlighting" and of a sitcom that bore her name, is full of plans. They don't include making movies or filming a television series based on some funny fictional character. "No way," Shepherd drawled into the telephone last week from her home in the San Fernando Valley. "I want my own reality TV show." Shepherd is not alone. Spurred on by the runaway success of "The Osbournes," the 10 episode MTV series that peered into the private lives of 53-year-old rocker ozzy Osbourne and his family, celebrities of varying wattage are lining up to see if they can put their own lives in front of the camera. The quirky voyeurism of "The Osbournes," which ended May 7 after winning MTV's highest ratings ever, has upended the rules of celebrity, which dictated that famous people guarded their privacy and that fame was something to be stored in a stoppered bottle lest it be damaged by overexposure. Today's celebrities, no longer playing hard to get, are actively seeking the chance to expose their daily intimacies to television audiences. Kato Kaelin, O.J. Simpson's star boarder at the time of Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, is pitching a program called, what else, "House Guest," in which he invites himself into a stranger's house for the weekend. he has taped three episodes. "Usually it's a family," he said. "Americans love the voyeurism of the family. Every American wants to see a real-life Homer Simpson or a real-life Al Bundy. And every family has a problem, and after about half an hour they forget the cameras are there, and they'l tell it to you and ask you to solve it. Kaelin has yet to sell "House Guest." But his timing may be right. The networks seem willing to try anything for ratings after a season that was one of TV's weakest in terms of successful new series. When the highest-rated episode of "The Osbournes" reached more than 11 million viewers -- better than the average for most network shows -- mouths dropped open across the industry. The numbers were especially impressive considering that MTV reaches only about 80 percent of the homes that broadcasters reach. For a second "Osbournes" season next year, MTV is planning to double the number of episodes to 20. Van Toffler, MTV's president, said that the network would never try to duplicate the show exactly. "With the unexpected success of 'The Osbournes' almost overnight, a lot of names have been out in the ether, whether it's Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson or Alice Cooper or Tommy Lee or Snoop doggy Dog" Toffler said. "But I don't think it could ever be the same. There is something about their nuclear family, about the way they relate to each other, the juxtaposition of the freakiest, weirdest human being over the last 20 to 30 years thrust into the most traditional family situations of rearing children and loud neighbors that you can't duplicate or plan for." Warren Littlefield, former chief programmer for NBC and now an indipendent producer, said that "the Osbournes" is a hit because it is essentially a family comedy, like "the Cosby Show" or "all in the Family." "In the rush to get somebody famous, I'm not sure that the networks are not missing some of the big elements of 'The Osbournes,'" Littlefield said. "the Osbournes to me are a hugely relatable family, and their famous and a little crazy, but human and identifiable. you get to see Ozzy step in the dog bowl, and you realize, 'Hey, he's just a guy trying to ge tthrough the day, too.' That's the appeal, not just the fact that they are celebritiies." Gene Simmons, the lead singer of Kiss, has offered up his family as a miniature reality series a la "The Osbournes." the Simmonses have been appearing on "Extra," the syndicated entertainment show, about twice a week since March. On a Mother's Day episode, Shannon Tweed, the mother of his children, threw a cake at him because he had not told her his mother would be visiting. Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey, the program's senior executive producer, said that AOL Time Warner, the owner of "Extra," had expressed interest in continuing the segments as a stand-alone show. A reality show of his own would give Simmons the chance to tout his clothing line, his magazine and his line of condoms, he said. "They came to me at first with a sort of 'Do you mind?' proposition," Simmons said of the "Extra" producers. "and I said, well do you mind if i stick my magazine in the camera lens? At least let me hav a free television commercial. that's what it's all about." Famous people may have been wondering lately if anybody cared about what they have to say, Chris Connelley, a correspondent for ESPN and CBS, said. "It is the first time that celebrities are jealous of the screen time that regular people are getting," Connelly said. After years of watching programs like "Survivor" and "the Bachelor," in which civilians bask under the klieg lights, the celebrities are biting back. "it is the In Style-ization of the publicity machine." he said. "the celebrity gets to look as if they are offering full unadulterated access to the secrets of their lives, when in fact they are the producer, and so they are controlling access and controlling what the audience sees. It has the illusion of reality." Shepherd said her ambition was not to create an illusion but to show audiences what the life of a real woman is like, warts and all. And, she said, a reality show has other attributes. "For one thing, it's inexpensive," she said. There are no fees for actors, location scouts, location rental or set decoration. the crew necessary to tape a celebrity's life in his or her own home is a small one." Shepherd said she believed she could be more daring on a reality TV series, as it would most likely be on a cable network. "We did a Valentine's Day show on 'Cybill', Shepherd said, referring to her CBS sit-com, which ran in the '90s. "and we wanted to use the word 'vagina' they wouldn't let us. So we said, 'How about 'labia'?' I guess they didn't look it up because it got past the censors somehow and that was the beginning of the end of the Cybill show. In this format, I could be edgy and take risks, be daring." Of course, not every famous person has a fascinating personal life. Simmons, for one, said that there were few celebrities whose lives he cared about enough to watch their private moments. "I mean,", look at Sean Combs," he said. "His life is probably so boring." And, Simmons said, a reality show starring Combs would be the prime-time equivalent of his trademark posse, a signifier of his importance and value. "it is his way of saying, 'Please, please don't ignore me'" he said. ==================================== My comment.. " Oh my HECK!! I would SO, PUKE, if I had to watch Cybill Shepherd being edgy at home". Real Woman? pffft!! And no mention of her disastrous "edgy" talk show.. And yeah, I really want to watch an old rocker pushing his condoms... Or anything to do with Kato Kaelin.
OZZY RULES.. and the rest of them don't have SHARON.. |
Seamonkey | Friday, May 24, 2002 - 10:14 pm     The whole family will be on Greta van Sustern's show on fox on Monday night.. so she said on tonight's show.. |
Seamonkey | Monday, May 27, 2002 - 08:21 pm     This was a whole hour with much new "stuff".. nothing earthshaking I guess.. anyway here on the west coast it repeats at midnight. |
Webkitty | Monday, May 27, 2002 - 08:23 pm     Thanks Sea, I am going to check my listings for the repeat, I am having Ozzie withdrawal! |
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