Is Reality TV… Not Totally Real Or Something???
Is reality TV somehow less than real? Here is David Weintraub, whose principal industry at this time is to provide tragic characters for reality TV, describing how the producers of a show called Sober House worked with former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey: "They took Mary Carey, they put her in a room, and they said to her, ‘Your story's shit, Mary. Your story sucks on this show. We just paid you a lot of money, and your story sucks. Here's what you need to do to make our show better. We call Dr. Fisher, he's gonna remove your breast implants on the last week of the show, and you'll recover in the Sober House, and we'll show this complete transformation of you leaving porn behind by removing your boobs. And we have you set up, you're gonna manage a Starbucks.'"
So, ah, is being an unemployed former PR person who regrets selling his soul to the devil and now spends his days smoking pot and watching the sundry variations of Law and Order enough of a narrative start to get me on one of these shows?
No? Okay. Back to the chung chung, then.
Chug chug?
"Recalling how he first proposed to Shifty that he go on Celebrity Rehab, Weintraub, who described his role as "making people's dreams come true," said: "I go, ‘Dude, you want this? You want to get sober?' He's like, ‘Yeah.' I'm like, ‘But you gotta tell your story on TV.' He's like, ‘David, this is what I need. I need help. I just want to kick this crack…. And he just broke down. He needed money for his son, his wife. He said, ‘Fuck it. Let's do it.' So I put him and Mary Carey in the show."
Intertwined in salvation is, of course, fame, something that Weintraub-a former agent who grew up in Beverly Hills, where "Roseanne Barr was my best friend's mom and Aaron Spelling was my other best friend's dad"-understands all too well.
"Yes, recovery is great. But go recover not with a camera in your face, if you really want to do it," he said."
Well, if that's how you really feel, then how about not making your entire career about taking desperate, broken people and putting them in recovery with a camera in their faces, you sleazy fucking asshole?
"Let's do it again. More real this time."
"Chung chung" is my own personal onomatopoeia for the Law and Order sound. It is, however, often accompanied by a chug chug — especially after let's say noon.
Argh! Supposed to be a reply. The internets is hard.
That is a wonderful Onomatopoeia. May I use it?
Alternatively, have you considered Chan, or chang? Also, perhaps exclamation points? Chung CHUNG!
Don't let me tell you what to do, it's your thing, after all. I just think this could really catch on.
I'm sensing some sarcasm here but I'm not entirely sure being drunk and stoned by 1 p.m. each day.
Are you inferring some kind of weird anti-Chinese thing here? 'Cause the cigar is just a cigar in this case.
No sarcasm. Genuinely want to use Chung Chung in reference to a situation where either justice has just been served…or may be served…or Law and Order is needing to be referenced.
It is funny though, that natural instinct on the internet is to assume sarcasm. Or maybe you're self-conscious about the onomatopoeia? You shouldn't be.
I live in SF. I expect that pretty much each time I try to communicate outside the small sphere of those who know me personally, I will offend someone horribly.
That may have something to do with my being a loudmouthed asshole as well.
But who offers up tools like Weintraub to The Daily Beast to make them, if not major, then less minor? It's the exploitation circle of life. Hakuuna-matata!
Y'know, I was totally going to read this article until the end of the second graf, where the writer describes Weintraub as having a "chiseled nose."
Seriously, does the Daily Beast operate sans editors?
On the other hand, Weintraub is quoted as saying that he found one of his clients "living behind an alley," so perhaps infelicitous wording was just in the air, generally speaking.
Love the implant removal deus ex machina.
Am I the last person to realize that annoying Kari Ann from Sex Rehab and Celebrity Rehab was Gayheart and her husband's "hang" in that awful video?
No, I think I figured it out later than you. Wasn't she also a hooker/madam as well?
I have to watch that show with the google on because I don't know who 99% of the people are. Sublebrity Rehab!
That DailyBeast article goes far too easy on the minor celebs – they know producers et al are sleaze incarnate and that the fame game is a devil's bargain.