Fooking unions... http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/8203320.htm Sign the petition to keep it in Philly: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/8208785.htm Paul
I'm all for having it in Philly! This would be the first Real World where cast members regularly get their ass kicked.
"We ask for fair wages and benefits" - some union guy. HAHAHA, sure they did. I'm not a fan of the Real World, I stopped watching it in '94, but the RW producers have every right to do what they did. Unions have bleed Philly dry and they continue to do so. Screw the unions.
Re: Good news... I still think they should have the Real World in Bangladesh or something. Let 'em see how real the world really is.
Stuff that, have it in Coventry, here in England. Just so I can break in and give them all a good kicking. Are the contestants known yet ?. If so, what's the name of: 1. The black guy with a chip on his shoulder about his race. 2. The gay guy who is uncomfortable about being gay. 3. The really irritating woman who is highly strung and argues constantly.
philly is a suprisingly nice city. it is really very posh is many parts. just stay away from north philly and the rest of it is pretty sweet. and i have always been a new york snob. but i spent a few days last fall driving around philly and i was very impressed.
you mean the really irritating black woman, right? black women with attitudes is a real world staple. as for black guys, if they aren't phony revolutionaries they are "playaz." that is a buni-murray law. and many of the sweet boys they have had on the show are actually "out and proud."
Re: Good news... no doubt..... how about a Real World Sierra Leone!!!! funk that, just put all eight of them in a crap ass apartment in Inglewood or some project in Newark. and make them become janitors or something. that'd be alot more interesting. living in a mansion on the ocean in san diego and riding on a yacht all day is not the real world.
They actually changed that whole thing this time around in SD. The black guy so far is pretty laid back even tho there were a few incidents at the beggining, mostly due to the crazy white girl. There is no gay guy or girl. But there is the typical nieve chick who dont know nuthing, and there is a crazy white chick, and another crazy white chick with mad issues including lung problems and fear of large boats. And the Asian chick isnt even on the show, I think she dont do anything cause not 1 show so far has been about her and she is rarely on tv. The 2 white dudes are practically the same except one is a bit more of a drunk. I think this season has been pretty good cause of all the drunkeness and arrest that has gone on. But its still not better than the earlier ones.
By one being more drunk,you couldn't possibly mean the guy who has been thrown in jail twice for public drunkeness?
no real world was ever truly "good." if you watch the original new york series, it really is as lame as any of the other ones. i actually found the los angeles house on venice beach a few years ago. very nice, no doubt. but what was so compelling about the los angles season? it isn't really hard to take 7 good looking young people who are egocentric, narcisistic and emotional and put them on tv. i don't consider mary ellis burnham to be some sort of a genius.
Coventry doesn't have much of an accent, and it's definately less comic than Brum/Walsall/Wolverhampton etc. Still, you would need ear plugs if they were in wherever Ricki Lake is from. That voice can skin rabbits, ugh. The only time subtitles were needed for a British show for a British audience was this programme based in Sunderland. It was about this really rough estate, and these kids who went around trashing phone boxes and setting fire to cars. The two lads were talking about their escapades, and I swear I could only make out a quarter of the words they spoke.
actually, i find dome of the dialogue in "the office" difficult to understand. i also saw the bbc filn "bloody sunday." i could hardly understand a word some of the irish yobbos were saying.
See but back then it was a bit more interesting, because the characters had lives. Like even with all the sterotypes, you got to see them go out and do things like in NY you saw each person do their thing, like Andre with his band, and Eric with his modeling thing, and Norman was going around being gay, Julie as nieve as she was was more active than the typical "nieve" girl they usually have on. Even in LA and SF you saw people like Pedro going thru all these things and being an activist, Puck was just halarious, and even that cowboy guy in LA who did nothing but watch TV all day was more interresting because one day he got up his ass and started making music again. And with all this they still went out and had a good time. The new Real Worlds all it is is them lounging around the house all day then they go to a club, get into some trouble, then bitch about all day, then someone in the house hooks up, then breaks up and theres a big fight and then at the end they are all friends again and cry and leave. Im telling you if you watch that show 90% of it is them at night, drinking(I would love to that BTW), they have no lives.
Ahh, yes, that's because it's the Northern Irish accent. I worked with three blokes from Belfast a few years ago, and the fact that 'a' and 'i' in a word was pronounced 'aR' made it difficult to understand anything they said. For example, 'Did you go and get pissed* last night ?' became 'd'ya get parssed last night ?'. It was very embarrasing. *=I'm using pissed in the British sense, i.e. drunk.
bmp made a decision after the 3rd or 4th year to stay away from a cast dominated by kids involved in the arts. i saw pretty much every episode of ny 1, los angeles, sf, london, miami, boston, seattle, hawaii, and las vegas. i saw almost none of chicago, ny 2 or san diego. for pure entertainment, it is arguable that hawaii or boston were the best of all the seasons, and that was without any kids involved in the arts. when you speak of the cast having lives, if you recall the london cast had a punk rocker, a model, a race car driver, a jazz singer and an author and yet the season was considered b most to be the most boring ever. after that season bmp decided to give the cast a job or task to perform. i agree that sf was one of the better seasons as well.
right, that is what the irish hooligans sounded like. that film was too realistic. the paras put the smack down hard on the yobbos, as they were calling them. just picking them off like they were shooting clay pigeons.
I think the reason for the London one sucking so much was that it was to much unfamiliarity going on, on different levels. Not only did the cast members have to deal with their own differences(which is always the case but when you are dealing with multiple countries and continents its exponentially more difficult), but they had to also deal with differences in changing lifestyle. Samething happened to a lesser extent in Paris, except since most of them were American they were able to explorer more together, having a job also helped to get them out of the house, but most of the time all that does is get them to the job and then back. They still had their stupid arguments and the show still sucked but there was a bit more of interaction. London had very little of that, other than when they were at home most of them hung out on their own, and the Americans specially, stayed home all day cause they didnt know what to do. It took the punk rocker to get Kat out of the house and the playwright never even moved 10 feet. Besides I dont think we cant expect EVERY season, to be good, and there isnt a "miracle" solution. But the kids they pick have no lives, wether its art or a career, they need to have something going on in their lives besides looking good and being able to down 5 beers in an hour. Im sure theres people out there who have tryed out who look good and have something going on in their lives, maybe the show just wants them to stay in the house all day just so they dont have to go on location to shoot. I mean besides the difference in the house and the different job can you tell that each real world is in a different city anymore?
oh ya, i forgot there had been one in paris. i didn't see that one at all. i also forgot about new orleans. i saw about 1/2 of those.