Archive through November 27, 2002
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Archive through November 27, 2002
Max | Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 09:20 pm     That's f-ing cool! |
Seamonkey | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 12:14 am     Barbara calls it her best "bleeping" interview She brought up the Osbournes several times in her talk with Larry, and said the repeat is at 9pm next Thursday.. Larry mentioned that Jesse Ventura was talking about doing a talk show and Barbara brought up how so many people think hosting a talk show is so easy, but not really.. and she said she thought Sharon Osbourne was likely to succeed at being a host.. Jesse Ventura might have a bit more trouble F-ing right Sharon would be great !!! |
Pamy | Friday, November 15, 2002 - 06:39 pm     I just read in Entertainment Weekly Sharon has all ready been signed to do the talk show, should start in 2003. I think she will be f-ing great! There is also an ad for the show with the following saying.... FAMILY IS AN F WORD TOO!!! lol! |
Seamonkey | Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 04:36 pm     Cracking up here.. Logging on to AOL just now and on my Welcome page was a lovely pic of Sharon and Ozzy.. and it says The Osbournes Are #@%* Back |
Seamonkey | Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 01:22 pm     On Monday, 25 November, Lifetime is featuring Sharon Osbourne on "Intimate Portrait". In my time zone it will be aired at 7pm.. check your local listings. |
Pamy | Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 03:26 pm     Where's Max been lately, I love seeing his f-ing posts! |
Seamonkey | Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 10:04 pm     I saw a teaser for something about the Osbournes on the early show, but it didn't actually say which f-ing day. |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 11:45 am     Article in my paper today: 'The Osbournes'' reality is no longer just hilarity The series struggles to retain its quirkiness as mom Sharon's cancer sets a grimmer tone. 'Osbournes': Time to Get Serious. "The Osbournes" becomes a reality show in the bleakest sense this season, as Ozzy and the kids cope with matriarch Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer. Yet as the second batch of episodes begins tonight, MTV also is trying to maintain the wackiness that made the series the network's biggest hit. The heavy-metal rocker, his wife and two of their three children are very different people than they were when they opened their home to us a year ago -- and opened the floodgates to a slew of copycats. They still spew plenty of profanities for the censors to bleep out. And Ozzy still shuffles around the house rambling incoherently about that tricky remote control. But the Osbournes are no longer just a cuddly dysfunctional family; they're a multimedia empire, with everything from books to bobblehead dolls. The change is obvious in the first episode, which airs at 10:30on, Ozzy and Sharon fly to Washington for the annual White House Correspondents' dinner, where they're the guests of Fox News Channel's Greta van Susteren. (Ozzy even gets a shout-out from President George W. Bush) Back home, 17-year-old sone Jack turns the hose on fans who lurk on the Osbournes' front lawn longing for a peek at the now-famous family and their ever-growing menagerie of dogs and cats. And daughter Kelly, 18, rehearses for the MTV Movie Awards, where she'll perform her cover of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach," the first single off her new album, which also comes out tonight. "Things are kind of, like, so good right now," Sharon says as the episode ends, adding prophetically: "Everything is really great for us, that I think something's going to come and, like, you know, knock us on the chin." That something comes at the start of episode two: Sharon's diagnosis of colon cancer. The 50-year-old is characteristically practical in discussing the disease and even invites MTV's cameras along for her first chemotherapy treatment. But the show's tone - and the rest of the family - changes irrevocably. Ozzy alternates between boozing heavily and practicing yoga backstage during the Ozzfest tour, which sharon invented. After a series of phone calls, he eventually collapses emotionally. "I'm worried about him," Sharon says. "I don't know how he's going to last." Ozzy admits, "My heart was breaking every night on stage." But then the action goes back to Jack, surfing in Malibu with guys from the rock band Incubus and fracturing his elbow when he tries to show off by leaping from a pier. The juxtaposition may seem awkward, but the show's producers have little choice but to document everything that happens in these people's lives if they're going to create authentic reality television. "The heart and soul will contine to be this extraordinary family set in ordinary situations," said Lois Curren, MTV's executive vice president of series and movie development, who helped plan "The Osbournes" from the beginning. "it's all about their incredible love and respect for each other and protection for each other, and also the fact that they deal with situations so bravely and yet so magnificently absurdly, " Curren said. "It's still a comedy". Twenty episodes are planned for the second season, which is still being shot. Ten will air now, with the other 10 scheduled for 2003. Despite the Osbournes' ubiquity, the world won't grow tired of them, says University of Florida professor James B. Twitchell, whose books on modern pop phenomena include "Carnival Culture." He admits he's as "addicted as anyone." "This is not normal shame TV," he said. "Most of the modern reality TV is watching people do things that are shameful. This isn't. This is not a dysfunctional family. ... This is a family that has had to make its own way." Twitchell compared "The Osbournes" to "An American Family," the 1973 PBS series that chronicled the daily activities of the Loud family. "People kept saying, 'Well, we're going to get enough of this.' Some people like myself never got enough. "There's a lot more to go because there's a lot more in this family," he said of the Osbournes. "We're getting an incredible dose of them, but they're as interesting in the 15th episode as they are in the first." |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 12:29 pm     bump.. read this.. lots of typing snort! |
Kady | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 12:39 pm     I read each and every word. |
Webkitty | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 12:53 pm     Me too Thanks Seamonkey, it was a f-ing great article. (can I say that is this thread?) <ducking from the mods> |
Pamy | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 01:13 pm     Webkitty...you are SUPPOSED to say things like that in these f-ing Osbourne threads!!! LOL Sea, I not only read it, I printed it and am taking it to my friend to read. Thanks, I didn't know you typed all that I figured you just cut and pasted, so thanks for all that f-ing typing. YOu rock!! |
Webkitty | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 01:17 pm     Yea, you f-ing rock Seamonkey  |
Denecee | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 03:22 pm     I can't f-ing wait til tonight's show. I've been watching all the re-runs and I never seen and episode with Sharon actually meeting with her f-ing loud a$$ neighbors. Does anybody know if the meeting ever took place? |
Cjr | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 03:45 pm     I am so f-ing ready for the show. I am glad I found this great f-ing thread! Fan-f-ing-tabulous!! |
Pamy | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 06:48 pm     LOL Cjr! Love that last f-ing word!! |
Twinkie | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 07:37 pm     Denecee, I've been wondering that same f-ing thing! That neighbor is such an a$$!!! |
Max | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 10:03 pm     So, that was one f-ing good first show, don't ya think?! Of course, we all know that there certainly is another f-ing shoe that drops, just as Sharon feared. Starting next week, it's going to start feeling like we are peeping f-ing Tom's on the family's major emotional rollercoaster ride. My favorite scene tonight was when Ozzy was getting makeup done before the Washington Correspondent's dinner. Was it just me, or did it look for a minute like the makeup person was working on an Ozzy statue from Madame f-ing Tussaud's Wax Museum! |
Marej | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 06:09 am     I laughed so f-ing hard when Jack was getting all the tourists wet and at all the animals. But it was also sad; things have obviously changed 100% for everyone. Have a great f-ing Thanksgiving everyone. |
Webkitty | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 07:11 am     Am I the only one who thinks Kelly has turned into a brat delux? It bothers me how she treats Jack, and how everyone seems to let her get away with it. The scene where Sharon, Kelly and Jack where in the car, and Kelly tells him she hopes someone beats him up, and then he retorts with, I hope your album fails. Sharon didn't blink an eye at Kelly's comment, but told Jack to shut up when he came back with his. Ummmmmm, my favorite tv family has their priorities a little off there, imo. Also, in another car scene with these three, Kelly teases Jack about the MacRib comment, and not in a light hearted way, it was scathing. Sharon never said a word. Everyone in this family has something going on career wise for themselves, except for Jack. He is at home squirting the tourists with the hose. He has admitted to drinking and smoking pot. He is at an age when things can spirle out of control in a blink, I don't want to bring anyone down here, but it concerns me. On a lighter note, I noticed that too when Ozzy was having his makeup put on, he looked like a wax figure! Funny. |
Denecee | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 08:16 am     WAAAAHH!!!!! I fell asleep before the show came on!! I'll have to catch a re-run. Does anybody know when it repeats? I know, I'm a f-ing sleepy head. |
Pamy | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 09:07 am     I think they repeat it on Saturdays. It was a great f-ing show, I f-ing love this family!! When Jack got excited about the McRib, I had to laugh, I too get excited when the Mcrib comes back!!! Why doesn't MCdonalds carry that thing all f-ing year???? I know I will be crying during next week show, Sharon is so brave, I respect her so much |
Whowhere | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 09:17 am     The funniest f-ing part to me was when Jack said to Kelly, "Me and my friends have been too busy bathing off the southern coast of St. Barch with spider monkeys for the past two weeks, tripping on acid - - changed our whole perspective on shit." My husband and I about fell off the f-ing couch. I'm not too concerned about Jack spiraling out of control. He seems to be a pretty smart young man. I only see normal cibling rivalry with a tad bit of jealousy thrown in. He'll have his career soon enough, he's only what? 16? 15? I truly think he enjoys squirting people with the hose. |
Wargod | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:05 am     But did you notice, when Kelly was getting ready to go on stage, Jack seemed f-ing excited for her? I agree with Whowhere that its just sibling rivalry and he's a bit jealous, but he does seem proud of her...as long as she doesn't f-ing see that, LOL. |
Pamy | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:41 am     I agree it is simple sibling rivalry, and I thought it was soo sweet seeing how proud Jack was of Kelly. I also agree he would never tell her!! |
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