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TV ClubHouse: Archive: Fame (NBC): General Discussion: Archive through May 26, 2003

Ryn

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 02:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Starts next week 5/28

http://www.nbc.com/Fame/

Texannie

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am so excited!!! This was my favorite show.

Whoami

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 02:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm, I could get into this. I love watching dance.

Comment..."Award-winning actress and choreographer Debbie Allen starred in film version of "Fame" and directed the television series spin-off."

I'm pretty sure I remember her being IN the tv spinoff too, as the dance teacher. Wasn't she the one in the opening credits saying something like, "you want fame? Well this is where it starts. With sweat...."

Texannie

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 02:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, she was the choreographer for the tv show and in it. Best all time opening line!!!!

Whoami

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 03:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wonder if she's still as awesome a dancer as she was back then. You could see the training in every move she did.

Best line in the movie....."I just bombed out there on the stage (or something along that line) and you're talking about f@#$ing pizza?" "No, I'm talking about eating pizza!"

Hippyt

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 03:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm gonna watch this,always liked Debbie Allen.

Seamonkey

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 05:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sounds good!

Squaredsc

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<in my best singing voice, standing on a table> fame, im gonna live forever.... im gonna learn how to fly.... high... <something something>...

i loved this show, i so wanted to go to a school of the arts, but i don't have any talent. i love debbie allen, she also directed "a different world", another one of my favorite shows.

Puttergirl

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 05:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've had a request to do a POLL for this show. It begins soon- 5/28. Is there anyone interested in a POLL for this program? Right now the website doesn't give enough information to know how we would do it, so we would have to begin after the first program. Post and let me know!!!!

Seamonkey

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Unless the first show is a bomb (and I don't expect it to be a bomb), I'm in!!

Squaredsc

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
frankly im going to leave polls alone for a while, so im out.

Mamaanja

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"You got big dreams? You want fame? Well fame costs, and right here is where you start paying...in sweat."

Kady

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I live for polls....I'm in!! :)

Jhezzie

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 10:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Re-mem-ba..re-mem-ba...re-mem-ba...re-mem-ba...

Sweetbabygirl

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 05:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Doing my Leroy dance!

Texannie

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 06:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved Leroy. Saw him on ET "where are they now?" so sad..drugged out and dancing naked in France.

Jeep

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 09:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh No! Muscle man, dancing Leroy drugged out??? I am crushed. I had visions of him dancing like that forever. He was sssooo talented. It is sad.

Whoami

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 11:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, I saw that one too Texannie. Very sad.

Seamonkey

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 11:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
That is really sad.. "I (want him) to dance forever..." at least he's still there on film and in our minds.

Pamy

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 01:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am really looking forward to this one. I will play if you do a poll!

Seamonkey

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 06:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Joey Fatone hosts ''Fame'' reality competition -- Original ''Fame'' star Debbie Allen will whip 24 multitalented competitors into shape

by Gary Susman, Entertainment Weekly at http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,453529~3~0~joeyfatonehostsfame,00.html

Lance Bass may not have gotten to be the first 'N Sync member in outer space, but he was the first one to host an ''American Idol''-like talent show on NBC. Now, bandmate Joey Fatone is following in the ''America's Most Talented Kid'' host's footsteps. He's hosting ''Fame,'' a reality competition inspired by the movie and TV series of the same name, and featuring Debbie Allen (who starred in the movie) as its resident Simon Cowell. The series premieres on May 28.

A recent star of Broadway's ''Rent,'' Fatone will preside over ''Fame'' as it winnows down a set of multitalented aspirants to 24 semifinalists, who will perform over the coming weeks in groups of six. Choreographer Allen will whip them into shape in a hoofer's ''boot camp'' drill, and a panel of judges will pick finalists. The winner, determined by viewers' phone-in votes, will win recording and management contracts, agent representation, and a year-long stint at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.

Hippyt

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 07:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yuck,I'm not fond of Joey Fatone.

Catfat

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 10:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved the original Fame show on TV, but didn't like Debbi Allen, she was just too hyper and too perky. I hate perky.
However, from the previews of this new show, she looks prettier and calmer (I hope). I love that long, black, drapey thing she was wearing.
I, too, am sad for Leroy. What a dancer he was!!

Seamonkey

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 05:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Debbie Allen was on GMA this morning (whichever show Katie Couric does.. I was looking for Ruben's performance) and they showed some of the auditions (some were pretty terrible). I'll definitely be watching.

Pamy

Monday, May 26, 2003 - 06:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep, love those bad ones!!