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...second stop on Liza Minnelli and David Gest's world tour to explain why VH1 canceled their reality show after the first week of taping - and to try to sell that same concept to another channel. I am happy to be an audience member. It's a really good show...
...Their first stop was the National Enquirer, which I found kind of insulting. Their next stops were Larry King and Entertainment Tonight, which didn't make me feel much better. Basically, the highlight of the traveling show is the two of them telling this story about how Rob Weiss, VH1's vice president of East Coast programming, kept poking Gest while Minnelli was singing at a dinner party in their apartment, demanding that Gest get some younger guests to perform. It cannot be underestimated how rude they found this. I began to understand when they made me walk...
...student of VH1 biographical docudramas could have predicted, the comeback failed; Veterans’ Day’s star had already fallen. It was too late to refocus attention on the original purpose of Veterans’ Day. Like Columbus Day or Washington’s Birthday—two of the other holidays the Uniform Holidays Bill shifted to Mondays—Veterans’ Day had become disassociated from its namesake, and had irrevocably become associated instead with brief vacations and department store sales. This is why my hometown’s parade feels insufficient...
...perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” In 1938, Nov. 11 became a federal holiday, Armistice Day; in 1954, the holiday was renamed Veterans’ Day. Of all the federally-recognized holidays, Veterans’ Day is the most eligible for a VH1-style biographical docudrama: in the not quite 30 years since its creation, Veterans’ Day had suffered through three different incarnations, and its problems aren’t over...
Fortunately, VH1 biographical docudramas provide a solution to Veterans’ Day’s faltering career. Like an aging starlet, Veterans’ Day will do best to retire. I do not suggest doing away with Veterans’ Day altogether, and I certainly don’t suggest abandoning long weekends. But we would do well to adopt the British custom of observing Veterans’ Day with quiet dignity on the nearest Sunday to Nov. 11. (You sense, reading the VA website’s rhapsodic description of British observations of the day, that the VA thinks...