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Jerri Manthey is no stranger to hostile environments. On Survivor 2: The Australian Outback, she encountered extreme heat, extreme eating challenges and extreme backstabbing. But it is in her second reality go-around, on the WB's The Surreal Life, that she really finds herself out of her element: she is the only nonactor or nonmusician in a group of seven former celebrities picked to share a mansion for 10 days. "None of us know who she is," says housemate and former teen idol Corey Feldman in the debut episode. "She's not part of our society." "I felt like...
...minor celebrities, this shift--their rightful positions on Hollywood Squares being usurped by nobodies from Nobodyville!--has been the equivalent of businesses exporting desirable factory jobs to the Third World. But now Hollywood's B, C and D lists are counterattacking with their own reality shows. In addition to Surreal Life--which also includes rapper MC Hammer, Motley Crue's Vince Neil and Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris--E! network's Star Dates sends where-are-they-now stars on blind dates with noncelebs, many of whom, natch, have show-biz aspirations of their own. ABC's reality game...
Thank, or blame, Ozzy Osbourne, says Surreal Life producer Cris Abrego. The Osbournes "made it possible for us to talk to celebrities," he says. "Five or six years ago, reality TV was a bad word." Now it's CPR for a dying career, a way for forgotten celebrities to remind the world that they exist and for child stars to reintroduce themselves as grownups. Not that any celebrity will admit to such motives. On one Star Dates, Kim Fields--Tootie from The Facts of Life--says of her two blind dates, "If they call me Tootie, they...
...Character Play operates on both literal and surreal levels—depicting two struggling siblings on a tour of a play and their extreme attempt to stave off madness and desperation...
Dramatic, hauntingly glamorous and sometimes surreal, Wilson’s selections feature Lynes’ trademark dark foregrounds with subjects lit from just behind the head. In one classic image, dancer Martha Graham stands with her arms placed above her head in an angst-ridden pose. Another, of Tennessee Williams, shows the playwright gazing off to the right in a black sweater with torn sleeves...