Archive through October 09, 2002
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Archive through October 09, 2002
Fruitbat | Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 09:04 am     I would not be surprized if management at these establishments are giving them free drinks for the puplicity. Nothing like having a flim crew around to attact business AND being shown on MTV at a later date. |
Max | Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 09:23 am     Yeah, that makes sense Fruitbat. In a sort of warped, Las Vegas kind of way. LOL |
Grooch | Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 09:49 am     A lot of times, clubs have specials like girls drink free til such and such time. And it wouldn't surprise me if men were buying the girls drinks. On the first show, 2 of them found a man that let them gamble with his money and they got to keep the winnings. And I could see the clubs giving them free drinks, also. |
Angelnikki | Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 05:08 pm     max, the palms isnt on lv blvd. but it is just off the strip right across the street from the Rio and the Gold Coast if you know where those are. Its on Flamingo and Lv. Blvd. Its funny because i knew that the real world was being filmed here yet i didnt know they would be living in a freakin hotel. How strange is that?? It would be boring after awhile but hey, all you have to do is go down the elevator and theres your food, pool, and clubs |
Laura11103 | Friday, September 27, 2002 - 12:23 pm     Yeah this is a definite first for RW, in a freakin high class hotel, now that's shweet!!! |
Nicoleme | Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 07:07 am     i was watching CSI thursday night and they showed the PALMS hotel in one of there shots, just like how RW does. i was like, what am i watching again??? i wish it was the RW. (i cant get enought of it) |
Csnog | Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 02:33 pm     Arissa's picture is missing from some promo shots. I wonder if she was kicked out. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 12:10 am     Real World Las Vegas.. an oxymoron if I ever saw one Trishelle's definitely the wild child and calling home to report on how "bad" she is definitely smacks of "payback". What interests me is how voyeuristic this cast is with each other.. what was with the other girls dragging the covers off of Trishelle and the 10 year old guy? or taking pictures of the hot tub activity? Sort of want to say "get your own life". I see trouble ahead (from the previews).. they aren't supposed to drink when they are "working".. seems like some may be slackers (surprise, surprise). Looks like Arissa and Irulon end up fighting over Alton (and one of them was busy telling him how awful his girlfriend was to have the nerve to call him and tell him she thought she was pregnant before she knew for sure!) Living in the hotel seems like it would be majorly claustrophobic. (paris next season?? Magnifique!!) |
Bizee | Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 09:15 am     I've watched the first two episodes and I guess I can say at age 42.... I must be getting old Seems that each new cast, the shock value increases. |
Konamouse | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 12:59 pm     I'm a resident of Las Vegas, and frequent the Palms Hotel Casino on numerous occaisions (including while RW was living there on the 28th floor). Re: drinks - they are given VIP access to Rain (the nightclub) and getting their beverages and food comped (for free) courtesy of Mr. Maloof (owner of the Palms). In turn, he is getting a huge load of publicity. Re: the hotel - their 3 bedroom suite is really about about 8 regular hotel rooms gutted and revamped specifically for the show (I know one of the carpenters who worked on the floor when it was being rebuilt - so I knew about their "house" last summer). Mr. Maloof has kept the "house" as is for VIP guests. Other rooms on the floor were used by MTV staff & production facilities - those have been remodeled back into hotel rooms. 28th floor will remain VIP access only. It is fun to watch exteriors and other shots from our home town. Much like we enjoy watching CSI exteriors, then laughing at the "homes" and "business" addresses given on air that don't exist, and landscaping that has never been seen in LV (since they film most of CSI in the LA area). |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 01:47 pm     Whoa.. this cast is FULL of gossips and voyeurs.. Same ol about the boyfriend/girlfriend back home and the supposed desire to not stray that seems to last maybe 60 seconds!! Brynn has obviously never watched RW.. they usually have jobs and often have early meetings.. here all they have to do is take an elevator. Such a slacker! Hmm, wasn't Arissa the one shown in the teaser for next week, jumping into bed with the boss? Don't know if that would cause her to be booted or not (they might have that rule after whatsername and the producer affair in Season one). Brynn, Frank, Steven seem to vie to be "most annoying/juvenile". Trishelle is holding on to "most slutty" so far.. Irulon and Arissa, "most angry", Frank "most whiney" but Alton gets "most major whine" when his girlfriend thought she was pregnant.. |
Weenerlobo | Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 07:24 am     Sea - I think that's Irulan that's in bed with the "boss" next week. Who-da thunk? Speaking of Irulan, I thought that she turned her gossiping around pretty well on Frank. I mean, he wouldn't have even known anything about what Arissa was doing with Steven if Irulan hadn't of told him, regardless of the fact that he thought it was sex. Pretty slick, Irulan. I still maintain that I don't understand the Steven attraction, unless the girls all know that he's easy and it won't take much to get him excited. The way he speaks annoys me no end. . . |
Laura11103 | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 07:17 am     I was pretty surprised about Arissa's attraction to Steven too. I was dozing watching this week.... was Trishelle on at all? I guess all the girls could do Steven at once, don't think he'd mind. |
Seamonkey | Friday, October 04, 2002 - 10:01 am     Irulan and Arissa seem to enjoy peeking into bedrooms and taking pictures and such.. Yes I thought Irulan did turn around her mistake; she shouldn't have blabbed to Frank.. of course with no solid doors, Arissa shouldn't count on secrets staying secret, since anyone could see/hear most anything. Trishelle and all of them were involved in the "catwalk" show that they put on. |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 11:41 am     Just popping back around to say that my family friend is supposed to be on the Real World show as a party planner sometime in October for sure. Please tell me what she is like on the episode! (I don't have extended cable). Her name is Linda, hair dyed black last picture I saw. Thanks! |
Fruitbat | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 11:56 am     Will do Oregon. Would you like me to tape it for you? |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 01:24 pm     That's way too nice, Fruitbat! Only if you feel like it. I think my family in MI is taping it too. |
Fruitbat | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 02:18 pm     If you are definately covered then I wont but just say the word when you are sure. |
Puttergirl | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 03:58 pm     I wonder if anyone knows the answer to a question I have? Aren't Road Rules and Real World taped at about the same time? If I remember right, they all audition together and then they pick the 2 casts together. If so, even though Road Rules is just about ending when Real World comes on, they are actually on the same schedule? Its an interesting question because during the 2 episodes where the Road Rules and Real World were together, it was the 2 next to last Road Rules episodes. Yet on Real World, there had only been 2 episodes aired yet. I felt like I was able to figure out alot of happens on Real World based on those 2 episodes. For example, in the Road Rules practical joke episode, when Rachel and Rachelle go into the Real World house with Michael, he shows them a bulletin board with pictures from the "shows" or "parties" they have done at the Ghost bar. There are pictures from alot of these shows, not just the one shown on the third episode of Real World. Then, on the next Road Rules show, where they have the contest at Lake Meade, between the 2 casts, Frank says "the 7 of us can't get together as a team to do anything! The only thing we do well together as a team is hate each other, hook up together, and argue about the dirty dishes!" So some of my observations were: 1) Brynne is still there even though they lead us to believe she might be kicked out of the house, 2) Nobody seems upset/jealous when Christelle and Eric hook up, so nobody is really with her at that point, 3) None of them really like each other by the end!!! |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 08:37 pm     Thanks, Fruitbat. Maybe tape it just in case? I feel guilty about the postage and snagging someone else's video tape. I'm not worthy! |
Fruitbat | Monday, October 07, 2002 - 04:36 am     Will do, silly. |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - 11:01 am     Article reprinted in my paper, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Phil Kloer 'Real World' dumber, sexier - really Review * Bisexuality and barfing are among the scenes its hormonal morons offer An e-mail making the rounds contains the following nugget of inspiration: "it may be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others." The attribution is unknown, but the sentiment is worth remembering if you're watching season 12 of "The Real World" on MTV, the most hormonally driven, partay oriented "Real world" yet (which is saying quite a lot). As always in "The Real World", seven young eager beavers are plunked down in a fantasy setting (in this case, the penthouse of a Las Vegas hotel-casino), and then we watch as many of them manage to screw up the sweetest deal they'll ever have in their lives. it's the oldest of the reality shows but the one with the youngest cast, and if nothing else they make the players in shows like "Big Brother" and "Survivor" look like relative models of rectitude and wisdom (which is, again, saying a lot). Sex and slcohol have frequently been the twin fuels of "Real World," but the Sin city Seven, all in their early 20s, are making past crews look like amateurs. There's been lots of three-way make-out sessions in the hot tub and group gropes under the covers. Two of the young women, Brynn and Trishelle, are exploring bisexuality, to the delight of the house stud, Steve. But the next day, regrets set in, at least for Trishelle, who claims it was the booze that made her do it. "Is that really me or is it the alcohol?" she asked after one night of debauchery. "That's you, baby," said her roommate Arissa. Meanwhile, party-girl Brynn is shown tossing her cookies the morning after. Past "Real Worlds" have grappled with issues (AIDS, alcoholism, racism, religious tolerance, living with a jerk), and tonight's episode finally gets to a new one, for "Real World" -- sexual harassment. The kids are given "jobs" (in this case, they help plan parties for the casino's bar, and even that seems like a serious challenge for them), and their boss turns out to be on the make. He maneuvers one of the young women, Irulan, back to his hotel room after a night of drinking and hands-on flirting, and gets her into bed. She goes along, but only to a point, and later her little light bulb clicks on. "he assumes that because I'm up in his room and in his bed that he's gonna get some," she says. Boss-dude may deserve to be drop-kicked out the penthouse window, but Irulan should get her own wing in the Dangerously Clueless Hall of Fame. MTV says that the main audience for "Real World" is ages 18-24, but it's well known that lots of teens watch it fanatically. many come for the fantasy of life as one big hot tub full of hotties. Maybe a lucky few will see beyond that, that some people's lives are worthwhile mainly as a warning. |
Denecee | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - 03:00 pm     So very true Seamonkey and sad too. |
Laura11103 | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 07:06 am     Wow, how bout last night's episode... I think Irulan is a nutcase. She was just as responsible for what happened w/ Marc as Marc was IMO. Just like she did w/ Frank last week, she turns it all around so she's squeeky clean and everyone else is awful. Not that I think Marc isn't a sleeze, he sure as heck is, but she was all for it, she admitted to being attracted to him. If anything, I felt Arissa had more of a right to be totally PO'd cuz Irulan let Marc into THEIR room and jumped into bed w/ her, IMO Arissa's privacy was totally violated thanks for Irulan... and then let's him sleep over too, but a few hours later when she realizes this ain't that cool, she's suddenly miss. victim... come on! Next week looks like the big week, the fight w/ Brynn and Steven. |
Lurkin | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 08:45 am     Arissa seems like she just has a chip on her shoulder and looking for trouble all the time. Her sourpuss look just irritates me. (c) |
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