View Full Version : Real World creator died at 57
TheSlipperyOne
30 Jan 2004, 09:33 PM
One half of the creative team behind Real World, Road Rules, The Simple Life and many other shows, Mary-Ellis Bunim died of breast cancer.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040131/ap_en_ot/obit_bunim_2
Good on ya, Darwin. Chalk one up for good taste.
MikeLastort2
31 Jan 2004, 10:58 AM
Anyone have her in the Ghoul Pool?
obie
31 Jan 2004, 11:17 AM
Her death is the most real thing that's come out of her in decades.
OK, that's not really fair. The first series of The Real World was fascinating television because it was focused on relationships, not titillation, and it had real, not manufactured, issues between the members. Then they decided that it was better to create inherent conflict through casting ("Puck", anyone?) and hire only super-beautiful people, and the shows went downhill from there.