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Minnie Driver plays Ramona Hibbard, a dewy-eyed misfit from a dysfunctional family who has aspirations to become the next Miss America. Why a talented actress like Driver would want to waste her time on this train wreck is completely beyond my comprehension. Along with her best friend, Ruby, played by an annoying Joey Lauren Adams, Mona makes her way to the top through backstabbing and sabotaging her competitors. After a particularly vicious episode in which she glued her rival JoJo's hand to a burning baton, Mona is disqualified from competing in the county. Most unfortunately...
...they sat down, the men and women who played B.B., Colleen, Dirk, Gervase, Greg, Gretchen, Jenna, Joel, Kelly, Ramona, Richard, Rudy, Sean, Sonja, Stacey and Susan on Wednesday nights all summer, and talked to Bryant Gumbel. And when he turned to the camera and spoke low and lugubrious - "We think you'll be interested in what they have to say," or some such - it suddenly seemed like the hour of "Survivor" nobody needed...
...There will now be a lot of furious trying from a lot of them. B.B.'s doing Reebok. Ramona's doing entertainment journalism. Sean's on "Guiding Light" and "Extra"; Gervase is doing "The Hughleys" and trying out for John Travolta movies. Susan will be doing Metamucil from a truck cab within the month, if that venomous speech didn't take her out of the endorsement game. (It was scary.) Richard - who probably was, as the Internet gossips were saying, putting an addition on his house this summer, the old dog - seems relaxed about it, but he's also pitching...
...Joel, along with Stacey, Ramona, Stacey, Sonja, B.B., Dirk and nine others to be revealed later, is now a loser. And several million people saw it happen...
...maybe there should be an element of emotional risk when someone exposes himself, figuratively or literally, to the viewing public - for money. Maybe Joel, Ramona, B.B. and the rest deserve all the angst they get. Maybe losing, even in so capricious a forum as Reality TV, ought to be about more than getting a hot meal and a shower...