Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hollywood," says David Perler, executive producer of reality show My Life Is a Sitcom, "I go out to dinner with friends, and they'll say, 'You'll never believe who I saw at the movie theater.' You expect it to be Julia Roberts, but they say, 'Alex, from The Bachelor.'" In this climate, who should feel insulted? Feldman, a former movie star who's being equated with a game-show contestant? Or Manthey, who two years ago was the most notorious person on TV's No. 1 show and is now being equated with the star of The Goonies...
...WANTED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, swinging bachelor and great-grandson of cosmetics magnate Max Factor, after jumping bail of $1 million while on trial for charges of raping three women and drugging them with gamma hydroxybutyrate, the so-called date-rape drug; in Ventura County, California. Luster videotaped his assaults on two of the women, declaring in one tape: "That's exactly what I like in my room. A passed-out beautiful girl." Luster has pleaded innocent; if convicted of over 85 criminal counts, he could face up to 150 years in prison...
...quickly and sloppily as Trent Lott fleeing a Jay-Z concert. Writer Sam Harper, who also penned the similarly-lame kiddie flick Rookie of the Year, embroils his characters in a classist struggle that pits Sarah’s crusty upbringing against Tom’s small-time bachelor-pad existence. Love, however, conquers all, as it usually does in the hearts of Beverly Hills society girls raised to believe that “marriage is an investment...
...format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual, its audience was meant to laugh at it. That...
...year: the vogue for vintage blue jeans (or mock-vintage blue jeans at premium prices); the continuing popularity of retro design elements (like '30s club chairs and surfaces "distressed" to look antique); punk and garage-rock revivalists like the White Stripes, the Hives, the Strokes and the Vines. The Bachelor, with its retro-style dating theme, was just one among many nostalgia-oriented television shows. There were reunions of The Cosby Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H and numerous others (for God's sake, even Alf made a comeback, if only in commercials...