Archive through April 12, 2002
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Archive through April 12, 2002
Seamonkey | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 01:02 am     Ozzy and Sharon were just on Greta van Sustern's show on Fox!!.. I was idlly flipping channels (waiting for a Seti@home turnover on one computer, so I can leave a different computer up overnight) and there they were.. she interviewed them at their home.. Sharon holding a cat, the little alpha dog sprawled out next to Sharon, I think Lola was there too. Ozzy says the kids wanted to do the show but then Jack wasn't happy about it. Ozzy said he told him, be careful what you wish for; you may get it. Ozzy says it was kind of like a six month party.. fun at first. Sharon says they are sort of like the Clampetts, not totally fitting in in BH. Neighbors.. one side.. megabucks, they don't know them, and then the "ravers from hell" on the other.. Greta was a bit surprised that they call Sharon the names they call her. (Sharon got the only bleeps.) Greta asked about decorating the house, Sharon did it all.. well then she said "Well I didn't sew the curtains or anything." They say they've never been in the tabloids and all of a sudden the tabs are stalking them.. she says they just say "what do you want to know"?? Sharon says "I'm a spendaholic, he's an alcoholic and Jack smokes those 'little drug cigarettes'".. Ozzy mentioned coming home the other day and some guy was on the sidewalk dressed as a chicken (at first I thought he meant outside their house, but, no.. a business) and he thought his life wasn't so bad, seeing that guy .. Greta asked them who they bought the house from.. Sharon said it was "Mr Bongo" who was from the Congo, but has his own country down in Africa I'm pretty sure I missed some of it.. And.. Greta said they'd have more with the Osbournes tomorrow.. so.. tune in! Oh yeah.. she asked Ozzy what he watches on tv.. he says news.. she asked if they watched her, Ozzy was saying something incomprehensible, Sharon said, "oh we love you".. Then Ozzy said he was so confused, he didn't know that Greta had moved from CNN to Fox.. was confused when O'Reilley came on.. sharon finally had to tell him.. Greta is on FOX.. Ozzy said he hates seeing himself on TV.. Sharon says Ozzy has watched maybe half of an episode. |
Cliotheleo | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 08:04 pm     Well, that makes two of us then, I didn't know Greta had moved either. Yet another funny episode tonight. The one-liner of the evening goes to Ozzy's "Puss has err-peeeez????" and the sadest line of the night, if not of the whole series.... (paraphrasing) "Jack, drugs will do nothing more than @$#* up your life ........... just look at me." |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 11:35 pm     yeah.. I agree.. Greta not only moved but during her time off in between had plastic surgery.. claiming she only had her eyes worked on when obviously it was way more extensive. I normally switch channels the minute I see Greta but last night happened to notice Ozzy and Sharon so of course stayed tuned. Well I know it must be hard for the kids, as Kelly points out.. they've been raised differently and are used to dealing with adults. And yet, contrasting the two shows tonight.. Cara vs Kelly.. both have fathers with money, but Cara's avoided his family and the Osbournes wanted their kids with them.. interesting. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 12:22 am     Greta tonight Ozzy says he'd get quick tempered. "Not now, guys".. restricted areas, bathroom, bedroom. Sharon thinks they are normal,crazy, goes without saying, eccentric.. but that they are close. Met in her father's office in 1970. Sharon says he frightened her, but thought he was cute.. she pinches his cheeks and says look at him, he's like a teddybear! Ozzy loves Sharon's laugh.. laughs like a banshee.. that's what attracted him Three of the greatest children on earth!! says Ozzy. Says Sharon and Jack stand up for each other.. he loves seeing that. He knows they will try everything.. and people recognize them from being on TV. Are they disciplinarians, Sharon shakes head no.. Ozzy says they don't dictate, treat them as young adults, not koochiekoochikoo parents.. Why did older daughter opt out.. she doesn't agree with people coming into your personal life, she's 18, mind of her own. She's terrific singing voice, different kind of a child to the others.. He says she's the smart one of the lot, nothing "wrong" with her. Greta, unbelievable how many people are watching this show. Ozzy, this is the 6 million dollar question. Sharon says just a home movie, truthful, not pretending to be something they are not. Greta, are you like other rock star families.. Ozzy says he's never lived with another rock family. Sharon says she thinks they are different.. others sometimes live as "Versace Rock Stars", keep their home life out of it but also are in denial about foibles. |
Soeur | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 03:55 am     THANK YOU Sea! It's pretty hard to paraphrase like that. What time & channel is Greta on? I've been meaning to tune in to check out her new face. |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 05:55 am     I think aside from the drug use and lack of self-discipline, the Osbournes made a good choice bringing the kids with them on the road. For one thing, it's VERY obvious how much the family all loves one another and that's most important. Also, in spite of it all, Jack and Kelley strike me as very intelligent and mature for their age. I think their partying problems are simply a matter of not having to worry about providing for themselves (in other words, they wouldn't go out and party all the time if they had a job to go to in order to put food on the table.) Hopefully they'll mellow out a little when they get older. (And they won't do anything to get the family deported in the mean time, LOL!) |
Webkitty | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 08:03 am     Missed Ozzy on Greta, does Fox do re-runs? Last nights show... (MO) Jack needs to get more sleep and quit inviting his friends over at all odd hours. Show your father some respect kid!! Kelly is smart and knows just what to say to quell her parents concerns. She also knows how to play the guilt card. When she said that kids at school think she is a freak (or something like that) because Ozzy bit the head off a bat 20 years ago, I could see Ozzy shrink in on himself. He asked her if she would like to be home schooled. These kids have it so good and they don't even know it. They don't have any monetary concerns, they have almost unlimited opportunities for their future, (Jack getting is own record lable up at 16?) and most importantly they have the love and support of their parents. Some volunteer work to see how many kids their age live, without a family and a hopeless future might do them some good. They are basically good kids, very likable, the whole family is. I've found myself becoming invested emotionally in this family in the short time this has been on the air. These are real people, somewhere out there living there lives right at this moment as I type this. I think I will probably follow news of them long after this show goes off the air. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:57 am     Me too, Webkitty.. Correction to my paraphrased post.. which I was madly typing while the show was actually on, no tape.. and they were talking fast, plus over each other some, and you know how hard you have to listen to Ozzy Sharon said that JACK and Kelly stand up for each other,back each other up at times. There is a whole list of dysfunctions in this family, but they also listen to each other for the most part. And the parents don't deny that they have screwed up, like so many parents.. they don't say "do what I say and not what I do or did" They say.. look what all of this did to me.. be careful, learn from my experience. I'm also emotionally engaged by this family. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:58 am     OH.. I doubt that Fox would rerun Greta, it is always about "today's issues". They do air it twice a night, at least on the West Coast.. I flipped over after Nightline, so I guess Greta started for the second time, at about midnight west coast. |
Whowhere | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 02:35 pm     You can see the interview at http://www.foxnews.com/ontherecord/ I doubt they will keep it up very long. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 03:22 pm     Whowhere.. thanks so much.. I just enjoyed them even though I saw them on TV. Soeur.. you and anyone who doesn't get MTV, need to get over and view these clips.. AND you can see Greta's new face at the same time.. |
Soeur | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 03:53 pm     Thanks Whowhere. That was really great. Greta looked really excellent I hope she does not go for getting a facelift on a facelift, as this one looks really natural. Often after a lot of procedures the facial features are frozen, especially around the eyes. It was great to see Ozzy and Sharon interact. They seem to be genuinely interested in each other's opinions and to have very complimentary personalities. I had seen them on a brief interview which was part of a longer documentary about Ozzy and that was the start of my becoming a big fan. He is very different onstage and his singing voice is incredible. That was a nice treat to watch after a long day. |
Cliotheleo | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:54 pm     Soeur, that's right about Ozzy's complexity being the draw of the show. I didn't know very much about him before watching this show, most of what I knew came from all of the awful things that my high-school Sunday school text books said about him in the hopes that we wouldn't listen to heavy metal. You know the biting the head off of the bat, and allegedly passing around the cup of ......... you know......... for everyone at the concert to drink. So you get this image of him being, well, the "Prince of Darkness" and yet there he is, a middle aged man who loves his wife and kids and who snors and cleans up the dog poo and chases after the cat and lectures to his kids about the dangers of drug abuse. It's that duality. Prince of Darkness by night, loving husband and father by day. Well, actually I think he just sleeps a lot at night. Plus I just love the British. I hate to speak in stereotypes, but I could watch most of them all day long do absolutely nothing and still be entertained. |
Seamonkey | Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 09:44 am     I loved that show where Ozzy and Lola were snoring away on the couch with the D'Snore ad running on TV in the background |
Cliotheleo | Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 07:07 pm     Yeah........ of course maybe it's EASY to produce a show about the Osbournes and make it funny, but the producers or directors or whomever should get and Emmy or SOMETHING for what they've put together. That was just like when Kelly and Sharon were commenting on how much the cats loved one another right before they started fighting ........ the cats, not Kelly and Sharon. |
Donut | Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 11:53 pm     we were here first! we have been here talking about this show way before it even started but i had no idea how big this show was getting outside here, in the real world. Every hour today, it seems i heard reference to it. The big boston rock radio station is having a contest to call in whenever you hear ozzie yell "SHARON!" and then i am flipping and happen to catch rosie odonell and nsync talking about how this is the funniest show ever! and then i flip later and hear jim brewer telling carson daly that this is the funniest show he has ever seen.He did really great imitations of Ozzy and Sharon, (well maybe not as good as my hubbys) Has anyone been to the mtv site, apparently i hear that it is great, you can read their diaries and they visit the message board, sharon even lectures people for innapropriate posts about kelly! |
Seamonkey | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 11:18 am     From our paper, a little blurb: How about this for the latest odd pairing? Now here's a curious coupling: Fox News Channel confirmed that prime-time host Greta Van Susteren will take heavy-metal star Ozzy Osbourne as a date to the May 4 White House Correspondents Association dinner. Ozzy's wife, Sharon, co-star of the MTV hit "The Osbournes", also is going. |
Madelane | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 11:42 am     Ozzy is getting his star on the Walk of Fame as we speak right now. It's a complete zoo. Marilyn Manson came out and introduced him. I didn't hear everything he said but he did say he took Jack to his first strip club. And something about wife-swapping. Then Robbie Williams got up and said, "F*** speeches, Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!" Kelly looks fabulous, as does Sharon. People are also camped out at his house. |
Madelane | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 11:45 am     OOh! Amy is there, too, very pretty. And a guy in a white suit standing next to Jack looks important but I have no idea who he is. He kind of looks like J. Lo's husband but it's not him. Sharon really dressed up in a cute suit. |
Moondance | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 12:37 pm     LOL Madelane... I just came here to say the area was crazy! It took me a while to get to my client because of the traffic! Congrats Ozzie |
Seamonkey | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 01:15 pm     Good for Ozzy!! Too bad they finished filming for MTV (I think).. it would be neat to see the backside of this.. Ozzy worrying about what to wear, what he says when he gets home, and so on |
Madelane | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 01:27 pm     I know I'm all curious now. Well our reporter interviewed him and Sharon afterward so maybe he got something good. I'll look at the tape when he gets back and see. The guy in the white suit was definitely an insider, he was the only one not family included in the family shot. |
Misslibra | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 05:32 pm     I saw part of that interview on the Greta van Sustern's show and then I remembered Ozzy is on so I had to hurry up and turn the channel to MTV. So i missed half of it. Did they show his other daughter or interview her or anything Sea? |
Soeur | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 05:59 pm     Miss Libra, the whole interview is available at the link Whowhere provided (http://www.foxnews.com/ontherecord/) The show is the biggest thing to EVER hit cable. As we speak Canadian broadcasters are bidding for rights (could I be more thrilled? could I? Could I???) |
Seamonkey | Friday, April 12, 2002 - 09:13 pm     No, the other daughter was discussed but she wasn't interviewed or shown. |
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