ABC has a TV showed called Extreme Makeover where they take the home of a supposed deserving family and remodel it. By that I mean that they totally demolish the old house and build something totally new. They do this with the aid of thousands of volunteers and they do it in only a week. No expense is spared. No corner is cut. Nothing is too lavish when it comes to the remodeled home.
It appears that simple greed got to one of the beneficiaries of these extremely made over homes. From the AP (via Yahoo!):
After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it’s set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed.
I wonder how the Harper family qualified for the makeover. They normally select families with extreme sob stories. Families where mom is dying of cancer and the six kids all have allergies to plastic. I also wonder how long it took them to turn around and take out a loan against the home.
I guess I should feel sorry for these people, but I simply don’t. Not even a little bit. I do feel sorry for the thousands of volunteers that put in the hours of hard work building these people a mini-mansion.
I normally try not to post too many YouTube videos, but that rule goes out the window if it’s something that makes ESPN’s resident blow hard Chris Berman look like the douche that I know he is.In this clip, we see Chris Berman get kind of creepy with a female named Rebeca on the set for Berman’s Monday Night Football half-time segment. He gave her a bottle of wine for Christmas and he is asking if she enjoyed it. “Did you think of me when you drank it? Did you squirm a little bit?” He asks while gyrating in his chair.
Squirm? I know I winced while watching this video.
I’m not sure, but I think Berman is trying to do an offensive Asian impersonation. Rebeca told Berman that she drank the bottle in a Japanese restaurant. Pay close attention to the video at the 35 second mark. I think that is Berman trying to do an offensive Asian impersonation.
It’s obvious Berman knows just a little too much about wine and it’s a miracle that he has never been the focus of a sexual harassment lawsuit. It’s also obvious with the way these videos are being leaked that someone over at ABC hates Berman more then I do.
The ABC one-time hit show Lost will be premiering it’s forth season this week and I for one won’t be watching it. I’ve given up on this show. The start-stop schedule this show has been plagued with has finally completely soured me to it. I just don’t know why it took me this long to give up.
Stories are supposed to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The story told on Lost has a beginning, a middle, more middle, a two month break, more middle, a six month break, more middle, and then an even longer break. I am sick and tired of it.
This show was supposed to tell a story with a finite end. It wasn’t your typical network television series that told never ending, ongoing stories centers on a specific group of people. This show started out of the gate telling only one story about a small group of people. Something happened along the way that changed that. The show became a huge hit for ABC. That meant everything had to be stretched. The story had to be lengthened not because the story required it, but because the network wanted to make it last longer.
More characters were added. No small feat when the series takes place on a deserted island featuring characters that survived a plane crash. The problem is that none of these extra characters did anything to propel the original story. The only thing they did was to help water down the original story and make it all last a little bit longer.
It would be like taking a 12-issue comic book miniseries and stretching it into 75 issues.
Compounding the inherit problems with Lost is that they are starting the fourth season without enough episodes. Because of the never ending writer’s strike, they only have 8 episodes of an already pathetically short 16-episode season. Don’t start something unless you can finish it.
Because of this that I won’t be watching any of the forth season of Lost. I am not going to start something that I know I won’t be able to finish.
The Disney Corporation which owns the ABC network is producing “The Path to 9/11″, a docudrama that recounts in dramatic fashion the many events that lead up to the terror attacks of 9/11. The six hour docudrama will be aired on ABC Sunday September 10 and Monday September 11. Oddly enough, Monday happens to be the five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.Evidently the 9/11 docudrama’s producers simply made a lot of the story up, even though they are claiming the docudrama is based on the 9/11 Report. Not that I’m against making stuff up and passing it off as fact. It’s just that they are trying to put much of the blame for 9/11 on former President Bill Clinton. There is a scene in the docudrama showing a crack team of CIA ninja assassins lead by Donnie Wahlberg about to spring into action and kill bin Laden. Before they can act, they get a collect call from someone in the Clinton Administration telling them to stop. To not kill bin Laden. The problem with this scene is that never happened. Nobody in the Clinton administration ever stopped the CIA from killing bin Laden.
Hasn’t Bill Clinton been blamed enough for things he had absolutely nothing to do with?
If Disney is going to make shit up about 9/11, why not be a little more creative then to simply blame Bill Clinton? It’s old. Why not go all out and blame the 9/11 attacks on Adolf Hitler. They could show that Adolf Hitler traveled to the future in a Nazi time machine and created the Al Qaeda terrorist network. The rightwing has been using the made up word Islamofascism quite a bit lately. Though Hitler was not Islamic, he was a hardcore old school fascist. It even says so on Wikipedia. Plus, Adolf Hitler hated Jews.
Now this would be a kick ass docudrama. They could show Donnie Wahlberg and his crack team of CIA ninjas racing to locate the Nazi time machine and Islamofascist Adolf Hitler. One of the Austin Powers movies featured time travel. Same goes with a couple of the Star Trek movies. The one with the whales was exceptionally good. Remember the Back to the Future movies?
The precedent of traveling in time has already been set.
Disney is missing the mark with this 9/11 docudrama. I applaud them though for having the courage to make shit up. Too many times, documentary film makers adhere to facts when it comes to telling a story. Most of them are beholding to the all powerful historian lobby. A bunch of stuffy know-it-alls assholes that wear tweed jackets with leather patches on the elbows. They smoke pipes and like to talk about Winston Churchill.
It’s refreshing to see a company like Disney have the courage to be a different. To spice things up. To think outside the box. I only wish they had been more original in their fabrications. A little bit more creative. Simply blaming the Clinton administration for everything is worn out.
ABC has a TV showed called Extreme Makeover where they take the home of a supposed deserving family and remodel it. By that I mean that they totally demolish the old house and build something totally new. They do this with the aid of thousands of volunteers and they do it in only a week. No expense is spared. No corner is cut. Nothing is too lavish when it comes to the remodeled home.
