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...doddering rock star past his prime and continually vexed by his unruly brood would seem to provide enough possibilities for real-life drama. But in an interview last week, two of the teenage Osbourne offspring, Jack and Kelly, suggested that MTV had been concerned that there might not be enough tension on the reality show and threw in a few curves to keep things interesting. On Good Morning America, Kelly said a confrontational family meeting from the first season was manufactured. Her brother Jack said an episode in which a dog therapist was called in was "an MTV thing...
When Jonze was just a skate-punk director of videos (Beastie Boys' Sabotage, Weezer's Buddy Holly, Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice, which features a dancing Christopher Walken) and commercials (Nike's Y2K spoof, Lee Jeans' Buddy Lee series), and the producer who brought Jackass to MTV, he would mumbleshrug his way through interviews...
Meanwhile, youngest daughter Kelly, glammed up and ready to debut her cover of Madonna's Papa Don't Preach at the MTV Movie Awards, is starting a music career. Like any good metal princess turned teen idol, Kelly is showily ambivalent, wearing a jacket that says POP STARS KISS MY BIG FAT A__, even though on her trendy, punk-lite new single, Shut Up, she sounds like Belinda Carlisle for the 21st century. Jack, the mellower Osbourne sib, thinks sis is getting too big for her crucifixes. During an argument, Kelly tells him, "I hope someone beats...
...tour and distraught, begins self-medicating with prescription drugs and drinking heavily. "She's the whole world to me," he tells the camera in a rare serious moment, and it's no exaggeration: you can't imagine the gentle, trembly rocker managing five seconds without her support. Sharon invites MTV into her chemo sessions and her sickroom with typical brazenness ("Sharon, how's your a__hole today?" she jokes. "Oh, much better, thank you!"). Yet you get a stronger feeling than last season that the cameras are on a leash. Nobody cries--though the family mentioned plenty of tearful moments...
...friend Robert Marcato, 18, moves in with the Osbournes after his mother dies of cancer.) If future episodes ignore it, they may just seem cynically feel-good. And if anyone can work cancer into a reality sitcom, it is The Osbournes, which won us over by flouting convention, and MTV, which wins viewers over by telling them that they and their icons are part of the same extended family. MTV is full of series whose premise is giving ordinary people the key to Celebville (Tough Enough, Making the Band). The Osbournes has managed to do the same thing with people...