Escandalo. On channel 68. A Spanish language tabloid gossip column. The host is a latter day Charo knock off. Obviously stoked on some accelerant. A Lady Bunny but slightly less potty-mouthed. She's always packed in to some slightly declasse outfit that doesn't quite accommodate her padded hips and age-softened cleavage. She's got a 100 watt rubio do. The show oddly starts each time with two magnificent go-go dancers. I guess the Spanish teevee version of a stand up comedian to warm up the studio audience. American teevee should take note. But the best part of the show is the faux news desk routine where the hosts report on the latest dish from the Spanish language media world and celebs. Totally whacked stories like where the camera crew is staked out outside a Miami hospital reporting on the movie star holed up inside with 'elephantaisis'. Just shots of the outside of the hospital with loads of gory speculation on the star's condition, no shots of the unfortunate victim. Loads of grimy details on the likes of Gloria Trevi ( an epic scandal of a life if ever ) Shakira, and those more familiar to the Nortenos like J-Lo. The whole show is done with such verve and enthusiasm anything on American teevee looks sluggish and polite by comparison. All the dish is imparted with such glee and campy, ham-fisted sympathies. You would never see any American teevee host indulge in such obvious delight about the soap opera misfortunes of our adored celebs.

Presidential press conference. Best time to hit the off and click on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM for 'Where We Live' and listen to a discussion about America's political prisoners by the prisoners themselves, their family members, and supporters.

Best line of the show, "Last week police arrested a five year old African American girl in her own elementary school. Now they are arresting our babies."

OK I finally caught up with "Chaos" the Kev and Britney 'reality' show Wed at 9pm (I think UPN?).. what sad sad real scary slice of life that is. Its so plain for ANYONE to see that hick boy Kev has little or no interest in Ms Spears bless her...it was just really painful to watch. Tragic.
I think they should merge this show with that new A&E series "Intervention" that i luv!

too funny. I saw Brit's show last week and was embaressed for her. They shot all the footage and this is what they turned in? This is what they are proud to show? Miss "I'm gonna be a virgin until I get married" was saying how good the sex was and they were not even boyfriend/girlfriend yet.
She's dirty and gross.
The not wearing shoes in a gas station bathroom REALLY grossed me out. And, can the girl put some make up on? She makes billions and looks like shit ALL the time. Get some Proactive GEESH! Tired of her and her flea ridden husband. But it is fun to watch her act like a fool on TV hehehe!
God bless that child that's on the way.

Aaaahhhh, Britney and Kev! Finally, we have a white trash Whitney and Bobby. Trailer trash around the world can now relate to the fine nuances of celebrity couplehood. Pehaps a somber trip to the Holy Land is not far...

who needs a white trash version?? sounds like we're getting the real deal. i thought about posting this in celebrity dirt but NEVER has there been something more perfect for "CRAP TV."

from popbitch:

quote:

The disease of celeb-reality TV is mutating into ever more toxic strains. Here are some of the latest:

Being Bobby Brown, starts end June:
The couple's drugged-up ghetto lifestyle in full glare. One episode has Bobby describing how he helped his wife with her constipation, by inserting his fingers to massage it out. Whitney says, "When I told my girlfriends about it, they said 'That's real love, baby. That's real black love.'" Bobby then holds up four fingers and wiggles them in front of the camera.

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I was so giddy to find the other day that I can get certain networks "on demand" (even though i don't subscribe to HBO or Cinemax).. but check out your Time Warner cable if u get that ...go to NY1 and then scroll backwards and u will find em ... i found A&E on demand.. which doesn't have much on it .. but (for no extra charge) i could access one of my fave shows... THE FIRST 48 that real life crime solving show.. which i lurrve...S'tan u ever seen it i think u might like it???

PS If you get Ovation channel...also check out a fab doc. by comedian Dawn French called "Dawn French on Big Women" excellent doc.

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Goblin, I think we ALL need a version of trash. Just think! When people see their particular shade of trash being shown on the airwaves, they will feel important and then we will have whirled peas. Like a Trash Benetton... Imagine aaaalll the peeeppuu-uh-uuulll...

Forget the personalities arrayed against themselves on US 'reality' teevee. You need to see Contrabandistas on Channel 41. Real life cartel members based in Baranquilla, Colombia. You want scarry? Real rubouts. Filmed by the papi's seventeen year old daughter Paola Cardenas who spares nothing. From the loquacious boat captain handing out Starbursts to his crew as they pull out of port with a full load to the intricacies of the latest AK 47 model intoned with reverence by Cacho the number one soldier as he lovingly caressess his "manstopper." You get a sense of how it all works as Papi shows off a suitcase full of American 100s provided by the DEA to the local Narco Police. "Morality is magic," says Paola.

The millionaire twits on US teevee are as relevant as a drowned louse.

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This week I watched about ten minutes of Jerry Hall's reality show "Kept", where she wisks about England with a dozen muscle boys putting them through all kinds of tests in order to decide which one is fit to be her boy toy for one year. The winner apparantly gets a six-figure allowance. I love the blatant sugar mama concept, but I can't imagine any piece of trade being worth that kind of money (and especially not the ones on this show). Lex would buy a revolving roster of caviar-quality beefcake for that price and call it a day.

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> WBAI Radio 99.5 FM for 'Where We Live'
Speaking of Radio, RU Sirius now has a online radio show at: www.rusiriusradio.com, if people are into it.

Regarding TV, they really pushed creating void content to an art; soon it'll be so empty we'll have high meditative experience watching the little screen ... "relax, think of nothing, ... (little voice: eat chips-drink cola-feel bad about yourself), ...."
As a side note worth its salty chip, the president of the major commercial French channel was quoted saying (this is real) "we are in the business of ready-ing, and selling viewer's brain-time to the commercial interests buying advertisment". At least it's clear.

j.

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OMG, Finally got to watch "Being Bobby Brown".

Absolutely riveting on so many levels, a complex S/M dynamic that would need the most advanced domme brains out there (Calling S'tan..)

And amazing that Whitters would be so hell-bent on smashing the last vestiges of "White-ney" in just this way..What's in it for her?

Isn't it totally bizarre? Whitney seems to far gone to find her way back to some healthy place. And HE is hust a total kook. Those poor children...You wonder if Thelma was able to get to her daughter and help her back to some place of balance. How sad and dissapointing to see such talent go to complete mind rot.

I've seen train wrecks before but not like this! It really shows how packaged Whitney used to be. Well, the plastic wrapping is off now.
WOW!

These 2 pics were posted on

Hot Ghetto Mess

and I don't know how old but GIRL!

It's funny, when she was all "Arista/Clive Davis produced and packaged" the kids used to call her "White-ney".
Well she sure showed them who's keepin' it real!!!
I used to think a come-back would be a snap for her. Just do the obligatory Barbara Walters tell-all interview. Maybe write a book. Do Oprah etc. etc. etc. But now I'm not so sure she can ever come back.
She's in deep.

BEST WEEK EVER on mtv was focusing on the little girl this weekend showing her reactions to their outrageousness. being locked out so they could have sex, waiting for them to finish showing off in public. sitting around bored to death with no other children around. asking what kinda mommy dearest type book will she write someday.

it isn't funny really. it's deeper than sad.

Almost pornographic, really, to have a teevee series dwelling on the details of such profound dysfunction. It really shows the full glory of the dys and the incomprehensible level of the function. Daddy's point about how she was so majorly packaged and marketed, that the public person bore practically no relation whatsoever to the real person, is the scathing lesson. Total bait and switch PR-wise. Think of what it must have been like to be the A&R person or other label execs, watching for when the real Whitney would eviscerate the public one. I remember her very first teevee appearance ever, on Johnny Carson, she was a young, nervously trembling pop storm who didn't come off completely on screen because she was such a virgin to it all.

The thing about a teevee series though, founded on marketing how pathetic two people are, really just has the main theme of that our whole culture of stardom is a pathetic, destructive shambles, showing celebrity as a kind of horror existence, where things like limo rides and glitzy locales amplify human degradation and the lowest, most base human traits in to a grotesque side show. Puts the Gitte/Flav duo to shame.

Humiliation teevee at its most forensic.

The little daughter will probably survive and flourish simply out of her own self-respect and spite for it all.

I wonder...
Is this the real Whitney? Or is she just "Gettin' All Ghetto" to be in with the kids? It's the real Bobby Brown, that's for sure. Calling the Dalai Lama "Mr. Lama" was too genius for words.

Some people are made, some people do it the hard way. most people merlin knows came up the hard way. to have it all given to us, does not mean one knows the value of what can be lost. the struggle becomes the understanding of the art form and the changes brought by the acceptance of the hard work are gradual and possibly easier to change with as the challenges build. so to see someone who was given it by-right-of-birth, cause her aunt put her up to it. makes it other people's fault that the fame/personality is unmanageable.

clarity of the individual comes thru the hardships of learning to do the work and finally succeeding, this is the charm of all those on the Motherboards, the history of their struggle, not the confusion of easy success.

yes, daddy, appearing young and being young at heart are two different things.

in love,

merlin