Has TV gotten too real? Plus Love Affairs, the Ted Mack Amateur Hour and more
Has
Grey's Anatomy really killed off George and Izzy? Is Susan the bride in the finale of
Desperate Housewives? And is there really going to be a sequel to
Farrah's Story? If that last question jolts you, well it jolted us too. We were going to keep quiet on this one. But we just can't. Maybe because we're still feeling guilty that we watched last Friday's "documentary." So read on. But first we want to update you on what's new at our web site.
Debbie Zipp's confessing to a love affair,
PTA Mom has her weekly top ten news picks and our new videos at
3T.TV will make you smile and laugh. Remember the
Ted Mack Amateur Hour and Buddy Holly? And before you head off for a great holiday weekend, get your tickets now for our
May 28th Cocktails and Conversations evening with best-selling mystery writers Mary and Carol Higgins Clark.
A Love Affair at 56
In the Trenches Productions', Debbie Zipp writes about her
"love affair" this week. "Yes, it's true. I'm ashamed to say it but I recently had a love affair. Sometimes you find love and you just can't help yourself. Someone just speaks to you in ways no one else can and you are whisked away. You still deeply love the one you have committed a lifetime to but you find that your heart is so big it can easily handle a new love. But at what cost?? The new man in my life is ..."
Read more.
PTA Mom with this week's top 10
Love affairs are one thing, but getting pregnant at 66?
PTA Mom's #4 news item this week is about the 66 year old woman who is pregnant. PTA Mom says " IVF has been around for 30 years. This just popped into her mind now? At this point, she's going to have a baby Stegosaurus. " Read the rest of the
top ten.
Farrah's Story. Why?
We guess it was all the hype. We guess it was a feeling of kinship with the iconic
Farrah Fawcett, a woman of
The Three Tomatoes generation. And we confess it was curiosity too, of the ghoulish nature. So yes, we watched the documentary last week called
Farrah's Story, which painfully chronicles her battle with cancer. And we were left at the end with one thought. Why? To show that Farrah has been very brave? To show that cancer is a horrible disease? To show that even celebrities are not immune? To show that if you have enough money you can fly on private jets to other countries to get treatments not yet offered here? To show how hideous the tabloids can be for exploiting celebrities, but then exploit yourself? We just don't get it.
Yes, Farrah has been very brave, and very determined to live, and has been through hell. But in the past few years, like way too many other tomatoes, we have stood by and watched dear friends and family who have also been very brave and very determined to live and gone through hell. And most, thankfully,are still here. So we go back to the why of this? Sadly, there really was no big message that will somehow change how we think about cancer, or how we respond to it. Instead, we were brought into a very personal and painful story like voyeurs, and in the end, felt creepy that we'd watched it. And we were shocked and appalled when we heard
Ryan O'Neill tell
The Today Show that they have enough new footage to do a sequel! Someone needs to tell these people that real life shouldn't necessarily be played out like a Hollywood movie. Because honestly, we just don't need that much reality on TV. Especially when it's played out for us in our own real lives.
So please, leave our reality TV to rooting for our favorites on
American Idol and
Dancing with the Stars, and our TV tears for fictional characters, like Izzy. But in our real lives, let's be there in times of trouble and need for our friends and family on our private stage called life. And when a celebrity is going through life's difficult moments, let's hold them in our positive thoughts, and hope they're surrounded by loved ones too. But honestly, we do not need to be looking on.
Before there was American Idol Well tomatoes, we can't leave you bummed out on that note, so let's harken back to the TV days of old. For you younger tomatoes, long ago, in a land before America Idol, there was a talent show (they weren't called reality shows then) called the
Ted Mack Amateur Hour, and a lot of big names were discovered there.
Gladys Knight won at the age of 7, and we've posted a 16 year old
Ann Margaret singing "Them There Eyes" at
3T.TV. She lost. And no one remembers who won.
And way before
Dancing with the Stars,
Katherine and
Arthur Murray had a TV show called The
Arthur Murray Dance Party. We've got a vintage clip of
Buddy Holly singing "Peggy Sue" on the show, and Katherine's intro, a hoot.
We've also posted another episode of the
Lousie Log. In this episode Louise, together with her over-active inner voice, interviews potential nanny's.
Very funny episode.
Sometimes the good ole days were just that.
