Celebrity Bios
Now one thing I always used to like to do when visiting home was stay up late and watch cable. Since I've gotten cable myself this practice has lost some of it's appeal, but not completely.
My last night in town I got hooked into some remarkably bad TV, A+E celebrity bios. The first one was about Traci Lords. I mostly watched this b/c I knew her name, but didn't know why. So for others who were also so unfortunately naive, Tracey Lords got popular for being an underaged porn star in the 80's. The Feds literally
knocked down her door to arrest her when they found out. The rest of the bio was only moderately interesting. The theme seemed to be porn-girl-makes-good, and this was proven by her being in John Water's Cry Baby, guest spots in TV shows, recording a techno hit for the movie version of Mortal Combat, and starring in some current show on the Sci-Fi channel. But they were avoiding the fact that she was only in these things b/c of her name. So all it proves to me is if you do something notorious enough, you can manage to stay in the media game somewhere. Oh yah, one highlight was her relationship with a guy from Melrose Place. Things were going well, except for she had a cat and he a Pit Bull. And one day, yes, his dog ate her cat and they were never the same.
The second bio was much better and was about the fascinatingly surreal Anna Nicole Smith. All I had known about her before was she was in Guess ads and had married an octogenerian. But there was so much more! First off, I found it really interesting that she was dating the old guy before she got famous (met in a club she was stripping at) and refused to marry him. She claims this was because she wanted to make a name for herself first. She ended up marrying him after her Playboy success and after her Guess modeling career were cooling off. So, yah, maybe she needed some cash then, but why not as a poor white trash stripper? The case over his money is ki
nd of interesting as well. First she won 450 million, then, on his son's appeal, got zero. Then she was told she couldn't appeal anymore, so she appealed to the Supreme Court for the chance to appeal. And they took her case. Can you imagine that scene? Anna Nicole Smith in the US Supreme Court? Crazy. And they decided in her favor, so she'll probably be able to appeal for some more moolah. And for some reason I'm rooting for her...
So those were the highlights of my TV marathon. Michael MMMMM, see what you're missing?
My last night in town I got hooked into some remarkably bad TV, A+E celebrity bios. The first one was about Traci Lords. I mostly watched this b/c I knew her name, but didn't know why. So for others who were also so unfortunately naive, Tracey Lords got popular for being an underaged porn star in the 80's. The Feds literally
knocked down her door to arrest her when they found out. The rest of the bio was only moderately interesting. The theme seemed to be porn-girl-makes-good, and this was proven by her being in John Water's Cry Baby, guest spots in TV shows, recording a techno hit for the movie version of Mortal Combat, and starring in some current show on the Sci-Fi channel. But they were avoiding the fact that she was only in these things b/c of her name. So all it proves to me is if you do something notorious enough, you can manage to stay in the media game somewhere. Oh yah, one highlight was her relationship with a guy from Melrose Place. Things were going well, except for she had a cat and he a Pit Bull. And one day, yes, his dog ate her cat and they were never the same.The second bio was much better and was about the fascinatingly surreal Anna Nicole Smith. All I had known about her before was she was in Guess ads and had married an octogenerian. But there was so much more! First off, I found it really interesting that she was dating the old guy before she got famous (met in a club she was stripping at) and refused to marry him. She claims this was because she wanted to make a name for herself first. She ended up marrying him after her Playboy success and after her Guess modeling career were cooling off. So, yah, maybe she needed some cash then, but why not as a poor white trash stripper? The case over his money is ki
nd of interesting as well. First she won 450 million, then, on his son's appeal, got zero. Then she was told she couldn't appeal anymore, so she appealed to the Supreme Court for the chance to appeal. And they took her case. Can you imagine that scene? Anna Nicole Smith in the US Supreme Court? Crazy. And they decided in her favor, so she'll probably be able to appeal for some more moolah. And for some reason I'm rooting for her...So those were the highlights of my TV marathon. Michael MMMMM, see what you're missing?
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posted by chuckdaddy2000 at 12:36 pm
2 Comments:
Was it blonde bimbo week again on Bio?
I haven't really watched AE before, but I think it's standards might be pretty low. Before the bios they had a 2-hour documentary on cleavage. It's also the channel Dog The Bounty Hunter lives on.
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