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There is famous, and there is famous. When the Osbournes opened their home to MTV's cameras last year, they were niche-rock-star famous. Today they are dinner-with-the-President famous, interview-with-Barbara-Walters famous, hit-video-on-Total Request Live famous. So things have changed on the second season of The Osbournes (Tuesdays, 10:30 p.m. E.T., beginning Nov. 26). Yes, everyone still swears a lot. Ozzy still can't figure out the TV remote. And the dogs still soil the carpet, although if they're smart, their agent has now negotiated a per-poop bonus...
...watching the family become mainstream media stars is not as weirdly fun as the first season was, it's intriguing in its own way. MTV has never been shy about embracing the postmodern paradoxes of reality programming--The Real World no longer even pretends to be about real life, and millions of viewers couldn't care less--so The Osbournes takes the fame issue straight on. We catch up with Ozzy and wife manager Sharon primping for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual fete during which the two nerdiest groups of celebrities--politicians and journalists--surround themselves with actual...
...without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than was Clinton). Whereas Clinton liked going on MTV with 18-year-olds, Bush urges them and their parents to return to an "era of responsibility...
...spectacle becomes nauseating. The couples sacrificing their relationships for momentary fame on reality television and the game show hosts in minimal outfits are just embarrassing themselves. Those people of questionable intelligence who trek down 30 red carpets a year become laughable. Did anyone catch this summer’s MTV Music Video Awards? Who are these people? Who ever thought that this is okay...
Eminem sailed into Barcelona last week for the MTV Europe Music Awards on an updraft of hot reviews and the box office success of his movie debut. 8 Mile, a semi-autobiopic starring the rapper - whose talent is fast rendering his many controversies irrelevant - grossed $54.5 million in its first weekend in the U.S. What's more, 8 Mile and Eminem's performance has been generating serious Oscar buzz (yes, it really has), and the sound track from his movie went straight to the top of the Billboard 200. If there had been a Best Crossover Act at the MTV...