----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: INXS thread, my two cents (Canadian)


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bob" <segarini@rogers.com>
>> Oh please...the best 'reality' show is the one you live.
>
> Gee, really?  Well, in that case, why do you have a TV in the first place?

I have several TV's...including a '60 inch HDTV model that allows me to 
watch movies in a much better environment than a theater...I can pee, pause, 
smoke, drimk...hell, it's wonderful. 2 of them are equipped with PVR's, so 
I'm not chained to the damn thing every day.

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>> If you want to watch clowns doing what looks like something dangerous, go 
>> to a circus. If you want to have an 'Amazing Race', get someone to pay 
>> for a trip around the world and stick pre-arranged, totally controlled 
>> obstacles in your way...just Bruckheimer's office cashing in on the 
>> current trend towards 'mediocrity' in the flatlands...and of course he 
>> did it better than anyone else.
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> Actually, I didn't watch The Amazing Race for years because Bruckheimer's 
> other shows are such crap, and I'm really surprised that a hack like that 
> is involved in a quality show.  The worst thing about television isn't the 
> reality shows - -and wow, what a huge newsflash that they're totally fake 
> set-ups, I don't think *anyone's* ever noticed THAT before -- it's crap 
> like CSI, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami and all the other shows that make a 
> point of having official-sounding initials in their titles.  (Why not just 
> make "Friends: Toronto"? Recycle the same scripts, just set it in the Tim 
> Horton's in Yorkville instead of a coffee shop in the Village.)

Bruckheimer just says 'yes', or 'no', and hires the best writers, editors, 
cameramen, lighting technicians, sound techs, and actors in the business. 
He's a producer...that means he's responsibe for the money, and the team 
effort that makes a project either succeed...or fail. The scripts are 
intelligent, the plots better than most movies, the look is astounding in 
HDTV, almost 3-D like, and have inspired other, like-minded, high quality 
television.
Your loss...


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>> And yes...I do know a lot about this stuff even though I don't watch 
>> it...I read. The same habit has also kept me from sticking my hand in 
>> airplane propellers, feeding the bears, and drinking anything marked, 
>> 'toxic', because I think I'd better see for myself.
>
> Plus, it gives you another reason to feel superior to the rest of the 
> world, and that's always useful.

Only those with low self-esteem would EVER think that anyone was 'superior' 
to anyone. No one is...and the ones that think they are...well...are 
delusional...or French.

bob


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