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...while radio stations and glamorous hotels of course bought into the "Millennium Baby" frenzy by sponsoring romantic excursions, you've got to think about that poor kid. Because their lives are going to make "The Truman Show" look like a cakewalk. In fact, the first baby of the new millennium probably will have a camera following them around to document their life--after the obvious success of "The Truman Show," it's practically a given. In fact, I am surprised that that simply charming couple from San Diego hadn't already lined up a production team. What San Diego couple...
Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...
...figure out what happens next, Ed, or you, might look in a video store, under Jim Carrey. The ghost of The Truman Show stalks EDtv, and it can't be shaken, as--guess what--Ed is chosen to be in the show. Ray gets jealous, Ray's girlfriend Shari (Jenna Elfman) gets the warms for Ed, instant celebrity makes Ed antsy, and the network's Mephistophelian boss (Rob Reiner) tries to shape the story line of his new star's life, almost as Ed Harris' TV mogul did for Carrey's Truman Burbank...
...last thing. Like the millions of American veterans who have never ceased thanking Harry Truman for dropping the Bomb and ending World War II, the folks who got their polio shot between the first Salk vaccine and the Sabin model have never had any quarrel with Salk's high place in history. (The two vaccines are now given in alternating booster shots.) There are times when even genius has to give way to the old Yankee virtues of know-how and can do. And if in this instance these happened to be embodied in the son of a couple...
...This week's Please Remain in Your Homes feature? CP thinks he's found one to skip. Fans of The Truman Show (like CP) might get an unambitious chuckle out of EdTV. But in the real remake category, one look at the papers ("A film of unusual ineptitude," raved the New York Times) and CP's ready to bet the farm that The Mod Squad, stripped of its afros, funky title sequence, and the heroin chic of Peggy Lipton, has flushed it's soul down the '90s post-mod crapper. Find the old pilot. Watch. Repeat. And as always, rewind...