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[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Otto Sell schrieb:

> "This is cheapness here..." (Frank Zappa)

   & cheapness in case of a tv show has nothing to do with the size of the      
     budget ...

> So this time Germany has been the test market - we're through with it and I
> admit  that I've seen it two times. In fact, I didn't wanted to be called a
> critic who is a critic only by ideology. I couldn't figure out what really
> attracted the people. It had absolutely no effect on me, I felt it just a
> silly waste of time and could never forget the name and its origin.

  this comes, though i could forget about the orwell, close to my experience. 
  the thing itself was just too boring. some of the popular culture that arose 
  around it, however, i found amusing.

> What I've seen was absolutely boring despite the fact that they'd got
> cameras in the showers and bedrooms too (he, he). This will cause some
> trouble in the USA I guess. Much advertising around small units of
> conversations, discussions and silly "tasks" the people had to perform. And
> it's absolutely cheap (as a tv-production) cuz it wasn't even a house but a

> simple "container" somewhere in the area of Cologne, beleaguerd by the fans.

  "manu, du schlampe, hau ab!" ... some 12 year old girls were shouting,      
   pleading for the outvote of a candidate named manuela (- "manu, you bitch,   
   beat it!")  

> They really made a hype of it, people who were voted out became popstars
> immediately (Zlatko) despite the fact they cannot sing, perform or speak a
> single sentence in German correctly.

  but zlatko profane gets at least his personal pay off from this emptied     
  'pomo' freakshow ... and there was one funny dialogue he took part in, where  
  about i read in the "spiegel". it went somehow like this --- a woman: "here   
  inside we are a pretty homogeneous group." & then zlatko: "i am not queer." 

> Because the crew had been chosen by
> illiterate tv-people they chose good-looking, advertising-fitting
> illiterates.

  oh, the bad-looking, commercially toxic literates were just out that day, i   
  guess ...

> After a while they brought *Sabrina* in cause they needed some
> sexy female. She made the press immediately, cuz she had trouble with the
> courts (money-stuff). The people who got money from her were lucky cause it
> was paid by the broadcasting station. Now that the one-hundred days are over
> they send "Specials" - enough material left, the ads wasted so much time.

> They had planned perfectly to stop before the soccer contest began, very
> clever.

  [digression --- fußball wm 2006: the empire strikes back!]

> But the hardest thing was how all the people me around were attracted, even
> my girlfriend. There was talk on it all the time, long-distance phonecalls
> of this type: "and then Jürgen said ... and then Sabrina said ... and John
> answered..." (forgot the other names), disguised as psychological or
> sociological discussion.
>
> This will be brought to you by Endemol-Productions, some Dutch idea. John
> Endemol is a master of cheap tv-entertainment for the masses (*Dream
> Wedding* moderated by his ex-wife Linda was a big hit too).

> Maybe only people are infected who are already tv-addicts, cannot miss a
> single sequel of *Emergency Room* (to name one of the best).

  since we, unfortunately, have the summer break here: will doug ross return 
  from seattle & take care of pregnant carol? will peter benton be able to stay 
  in contact with his son? what about lucy's ritalin habit? & will she and 
  carter ever become a real couple?
  shameless tube addicts may contact me offlist. 

> If just being on screen makes you a star, no matter if you've got something
> to say, stardom doesn't matter anymore, becomes boredom. Maybe we are lucky
> and stuff like this will drive the people away from the tube on the long
> run.

                     & the legend lives on ...

kfl


> I'm the Slime
>
> I am gross and perverted
> I'm obsessed and deranged
> I have existed for years
> But very little has changed
> I am the tool of the Government
> And industry too
> For I am destined to rule
> And regulate you  (...)
> You will obey me while I lead you
> And eat the garbage that I feed you
> Until the day that we don't need
> Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
> Your mind is totally controlled
> It has been stuffed into my mold
> And you will do as you are told
> Until the rights to you are sold
>
> That's right, folks . . .
> Don't touch that dial
>
> (FZ 1973)
>
>
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