Archive through January 23, 2003
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Archive through January 23, 2003
Sanfranjoshfan | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 06:54 pm     I checked tvguide.com and found that next week on Jan 23, they will air episode #3, then on Jan 30, they will rerun both episodes #2 and #3. (If you can believe tvguide.com, that is....the magazine version is a big fat liar.) At any rate, a friend of mine has TIVO which was smart enough to catch it even though it was on at a differenmt time than originally planned....so I got to see it. It WAS a good one. My only disappointment with Surreal Life is that they aren't in a house RIGHT NOW with LIVE FEEDS! |
Seamonkey | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 07:07 pm     Just imagine live feeds and THAT LAUGH!! It would drive my cat right out of the room!! |
Kaili | Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 08:54 am     A friend of mine at work siad he caught a few minutes on The View (don't remember who he said was on the show as a guest) and they were saying that Vince turns out to be the star of the show and the final episode will bring tears. That's all he caught of it but that the show didn't end up being what it was originally planned to be. I wonder if this has to do with Vince, his daughter, and the church thing. Is that the final episode, or next weeks episode? I know the final show won't bring tears for me if it's about Corey getting married. |
Pamy | Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 11:27 am     Serate..I forgot about the hot dog!!! I wonder why Gabrielle didn't call him on it! I would have! Vince all ready made me cry when he told the story of losing his daughter, I had no idea, and my heart just broke for him. Maybe he becomes a born again christian at the church. |
Scorpiomoon | Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 03:29 pm     I so totally didn't want to get sucked into this show, but I have. I can stop thinking about what truly decent and warm people Hammer and Manny are. They're both so humble and easygoing. Gabrielle seems genuinely matneral. Cory is a mess. I don't know why someone hasn't told him to shut up by now. |
Babyjaxmom | Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 04:33 pm     SanFran, I feel your pain, baby. I live in the Sacramento area, and TV Guide screwed me over, too. I sat down this afternoon to watch the show I supposedly taped Thursday night, and got the Jamie Kennedy Train Wreck (or whatever the hell it's supposed to be). Thanks so much, Faery, for the blow-by-blow. Sounds like I missed a good one. We really do need to check into TiVo. I've always liked MC Hammer. Even though he blew his millions, he's always seemed like a good guy to me. Part of the reason he lost all his money was that he had all his friends and relatives on the payroll. I used to have a friend who worked at one of the upscale cosmetics counters in The City (San Francisco--no one but a bohunk says "Frisco"!), and she told me that MC Hammer used to come in with his backup dancers and buy out the place. Whatever they wanted. Put it on the tab. He's very generous with his friends. |
Shortnsweet | Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 10:29 pm     I am also in the Sacramento viewing area. I get my TV information from "My Yahoo" and it seems to be correct everyday. |
Azlen | Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 10:48 pm     I would highly recommend a Tivo for anyone who is a TV buff. I have two and don't know if I could watch TV without them. |
Misslibra | Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 03:41 am     I can't watch the show because my cable don't carry WB. All these channels I have and no WB can you believe it! It just isn't fair I tell ya!!  |
Niceguy | Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 03:17 pm     What I'd like to see on the last episode is Glen Campbell come back to the old homestead and hang out with this group. Sort of like some patrician figure sending them back into the world from his old house. |
Pamy | Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 07:12 pm     Glen Campbell is a nice man. When I was in 3rd grade we went to a Celebrity fund raiser and he walked 1/2 mile to come sign my cast(I had broken my leg and couldn't walk out to where every one was). I still have that piece of the cast. |
Niceguy | Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 09:13 pm     Glen's always seemed pretty cool to me. |
Ryn | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 08:58 am     9pm tonight - this show does not re-air at any other day time - so if you miss it, in the immortal words of Shannon (BB2), "Too bad so sad." ;) |
Grooch | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 09:34 am     Reality, as Webster defines it January 23, 2003 BY PHIL ROSENTHAL TELEVISION CRITIC HOLLYWOOD--Emmanuel Lewis, the kid from "Webster," kept trying over and over again to explain to the TV critics how reality TV differs from regular dramas and comedies. He wanted to make sure we know that the Emmanuel Lewis we see on the WB's "The Surreal Life" is different from the Emmanuel Lewis we might see elsewhere on TV or in movies--assuming that we ever saw him elsewhere on TV or in movies lately, which, quite frankly, almost no one does. "You can't get any more real than this," said Lewis, now 31 and 15 years removed from "Webster." "People are going to see an edited version of what went on for 10 days, and this was 24 hours of being real. I've got a bunkmate. His name is M.C. Hammer. How real is that, baby? "Then next door is Vince Neil [of Motley Crue], OK? [Playboy's] Brande Roderick? Oh my goodness, you can't get any more real than this. If I get up in the middle of the night, there's cameras. This is real, every moment, so this is interesting. "Normally, when we play our roles for TV ... in the credits, [maybe] it says, 'Emmanuel Lewis as himself.' But in all of those moments, all of those words that you hear and those moments and those actions are scripted. ... So this is the very first time that ... you'll see this person as himself or herself, and that's what I said that day. ... I moved that way myself.'' Thanks for clearing that up, Manny. But we critics--and most viewers--probably understand it better than you. It apparently hadn't yet sunk in for Lewis that most of those who have made a modest hit of "The Surreal Life" at 8:30 p.m. Thursdays on WGN-Channel 9 not only get what he and his TV housemates subjected themselves to, they laugh at them for doing it. And as was the case in the house they shared--the one the Rhinestone Cowboy himself, Glen Campbell, used to call home--Lewis wasn't alone. "No, no, no,'' former "Beverly Hills, 90210" co-star Gabrielle Carteris protested when a critic dared suggest that she, Lewis, Hammer, Neil, Roderick, ex-child star Corey Feldman and "Survivor 2" castoff Jerri Manthey were being made the butt of a big joke in this show they had gathered here to promote. (Well, not everyone gathered. Paunchy rocker Neil was a no-show, electing to attend a Vegas porn convention instead.) Manthey, once a nationally known pain in the outback, added her two cents. "I totally disagree with you," she said to the critic. "Everybody has their own opinion,'' Feldman said, hinting at reason before a familiar voice cut in. Please, Hammer, don't hurt them. "I can't totally say that [the critic] is not correct," Hammer said. "To a certain aspect.'' "He's semi-correct,'' said Lewis, famously once part of Michael Jackson's entourage. "It's in the eye of the beholder," Hammer continued. "But at the end of the day, I don't think anybody up here feels as though you can laugh at them because these are real professional people.'' "Plus," Carteris said, doing a 180, "we're laughing with you.'' "Yes," Manthey said, doing her own pirouette. "Believe me, nobody got a better laugh out of it than all of us." Oh. "It could have been a hatchet job,'' executive producer David Garfinkle admitted. "The hatchet was still found, man,'' Hammer said. When Feldman was asked how it felt to watch himself have an emotional meltdown in Las Vegas on the eve of his on-camera wedding in a future clip from the series edited to play for laughs, he turned to Garfinkle's fellow executive producer, Mark Cronin. "I don't know," Feldman said, semiseriously. "Mark, why did you play it to look like a damn comedy?'' On the other hand, Feldman--who jokes that he was approached for the show while "panhandling in front of the studio''--had been engaged nine months (a fact conveniently omitted from the show) and only agreed to an on-air wedding to appease the producers. "Try to find one reality show that's real," Feldman said. "All reality television is manipulated and edited for entertainment purposes, period," added Manthey, who ought to know. But the fact "it could be a train wreck," is part of the lure, Feldman said. "The bottom line of all this nonsense is that the ratings speak for themselves. We don't have anything else to say. ... We had a good time. The ratings are there. We're happy.'' Lewis mumbled something about how he and the others had "no control over ... how it's being wrapped," and how he wanted to set "the record straight" about it. Hammer just shook his head. "I'm not here to set the record straight,'' said the onetime recording star at least as well known for his subsequent bankruptcy. "I understand business, and business says, 'Get them to tune in, make that meter go up and stay there.' I'll see you on the next show, the next series. God bless you. That's it." Now that's real, baby. |
Laura11103 | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 09:34 am     Got my tape set, I love this show! That was so funny w/ Jerri and Manny sharing a tent last week. I have a feeling Corey's gonna drive everyone insane though. |
Kady | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 12:05 pm     Did anyone else see Vince on Regis and Kelly this morning? Kelly asked him was Corey really as annoying as he is being portrayed? Vince replied something to the effect of he thought he was toned down. Geesh, he must have been more of a pain to live with than we think. LOL |
Seamonkey | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 12:23 pm     I had a terrifying moment last night.. I was flipping channels like a maniac because the tennis matches were of great interest to me and I was watching Dawson's Creek and Bachelorette.. Anyway at one point I flipped back to channel 5/Dawson's Creek and there was a closeup of Corey Feldman's rodent like face.. thankfully it was a promo for Surreal Life, not part of Dawson's.. <shudder> And tonight, this show is the only NON-rerun.. how pathetic is THAT?? ER is a rerun, CSI is a rerun, Friends is a rerun, HS reunion is a rerun, Without a Trace is a rerun, Joe Millionaire is a rerun (not saying I'd be wanting to watch some of these anyway).. Seriously there's an excellent documentary on PBS tonight anyway. But sheesh.. last night was crazymaking with all the stuff available. |
Ryn | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 12:40 pm     Star Search is not a re-run.... Then again I have yet to tune in for more than 5 minutes of that show. |
Ryn | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 06:06 pm     Hmm - all quiet here huh?? Talent show tonight, wow - they all suck.... Vince is the last one to go.... |
Ryn | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 06:09 pm     Corey has an album out everyone... DON'T buy it based on his performance |
Ryn | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 06:15 pm     Well, to be honest, tonights show was lame. Worst one so far. I have liked all the other ones, this one just never went anywhere. Next week - Vegas Baby!!! |
Seamonkey | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 06:24 pm     Oh!! I think that was what I saw in that terrifying moment!! Corey's "talent".. Yes, Star Search isn't a rerun but I don't watch it, but should have listed it I suppose.. Not sure if I'll be watching this tonight either.. time will tell. |
Curlyq | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 06:50 pm     I think this show needs to go back to being an hour, because what happens in 30 minutes isn't enough to make it interesting. It would've been better to put the camping trip and talent show together, or the talent show and Vegas trip together. Meanwhile Corey Feldman does not strike me as someone who's ready to be married. He springs a spur of the moment wedding on his fiance, and then hangs up on her when she tries to tell him that she's getting stressed out by it. Way to be supportive. She must be a very patient woman, because I would've called it off right then and there. |
Kady | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 07:06 pm     An hour for this show would be great. On Regis and Kelly this morning, Vince was talking about fishing on their camping trip. They could have stretched it out for an hour. I like it but it just ends too soon. |
Azlen | Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 07:41 pm     The guy that Simon sent out to find a singer worse than him, I think he might have found him if he was watching the WB tonight. Corey was just awful. |
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