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trade roundup
Put On Your Overalls but Leave One Strap Off, Because It's 1992 Again
Oh, so much happens today. A new 1990s begins on The CW. Another wonderful movie about smart alec animals lurches into fruition. TNT makes its big, crime-ridden power play. The Real World will soon date rape you. And the clouds of war gather and loom. More » -
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Real World: The Bitter Brooklyn End
So that was it! What's passed is past and we won't get anymore. The Real World: Brooklyn has come to an end, with bags and suitcases and genitals packed up and away. More » -
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Drunken Real Worlders to March On Washington?
On Tuesday we asked you to guess the next Real World city. The 18% of you who guessed Washington D.C. might be on to something! If this job posting from producer Bunim/Murray is any indication. More » -
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Decide the Next Real World Location
As mentioned earlier, MTV has ordered four more seasons of The Real World. But, really, what cities are there left to send the seven gurgling strangers? Where should they go next? Let's do a poll: More » -
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Two New Seasons of Friday Night Lights Just Begging to Be Ignored Completely
Your favorite football series returns, Drew Barrymore's dating Justin Long again, NYC film gets a tax break, plus movies about babysitters and killer crazy girls. More »
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recaps
When Is a 'Stripper Pole' Actually Just a Pole?
Hey Real World: Brooklyn. Here's the heezy right over here. You need to get back on it. Because you were certainly off it last night. (That didn't make sense, I know.) More »
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uno mas
Sick of this 'Sensitive' Season, MTV Decides to Send the Next Real World Kids to Cancún
Because the current Brooklyn-set season of MTV's The Real World has been about real issues—What are gay people? Can we poke them with sticks?—and nobody likes real issues, next season will return to drunkenness. More »
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Comment by hortense: Yes, but don't forget that they also sent the women of Real World 1 to Jamaica when things got too... 7 Responses | Other threads
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the real world
Heaping Pile of Reality Show Trash Leaves Heaping Pile of Trash
MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge show, and its enduring popularity, is one of television's most damning indictments of American youth. For that reason I watch every week, disgusted—like eating a whole bag of Fritos and bitterly regretting it—while these drunken, bloated ex-Real World and Road Rules cast members booze and sloppily fuck and compete greedily for sweet, sweet cash. The whole thing is a complete mess. Literally! The cast and crew of the most recent iteration The Island, airing now (sigh), reportedly left behind tons of trash for the Panamanian locals to clean up: More »
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rudderless brooklyn
The Real World: Brooklyn's Mormon Virgin Photo Gallery
Yesterday we told you about the current Real World: Crooklyn cast that is filming all over our trendiest borough, and its maybe-gay (?) Mormon virgin fellow who the producers are trying to get laid. Because, ha ha ha, it's fun to watch people violate all they stand for and cheat on their fiances. Totes hilars. Some of you, based on his scarf and Elvis Costello glasses getup (and just the general sexiness of fucking some wholesome Mormon kid, I guess) said you'd deflower him if the situation was right. Well now, from our friend at Driven By Boredom, we have photos of said Mormon lad for you to assess. Now, will you be his very first bone? Take a look at the above photo, and the couple after the jump. More » -
rudderless brooklyn
Would You Deflower The Real World's Mormon Guy?
As we're all too aware, the new season of MTV's once pioneering, now blotto and lonely reality series The Real World is currently filming in Brooklyn. The cast members live in Red Hook, but party in Williamsburg and shop downtown and all that hip, hip Brooklyn stuff. And, conceivably, the dudes meet chicks. Except one of them! His name is Chet and he is Mormon and, though he's engaged to a young lady back home in Salt Lake City (a city name that celebrates a barren nothingness of a lake whose only inhabitants are brine shrimp and brine flies), the producers want him to get laid. Because he's a virgin! Could you be the lucky girl (or guy)??? Read a bit about him after the jump. More »
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Comment by katastic: I don't think I have the necessary, uh, credentials for this, for all of my ruggedness and machismo. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Defamer Commenter Braintrust Weighs In On 5 Solutions to Fix MTV
When we spent yesterday introducing you to the "7 MTV-Defining Stars Who Wouldn't Be Allowed on MTV Anymore," little did we know it would cause such a sensation. From far and wide, the Defamer commenters gathered together to trade stories about the network's golden days, suggest improvements that could be made, and shout at kids to get off their damn lawn. Since MTV has made the encouraging step of hiring Russell Brand to host this year's VMAs, we know they're open to self-improvement, so we thought it only fair to spotlight the best suggestions and constructive criticism the Defamer braintrust had to offer: More » -
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7 MTV-Defining Stars Who Wouldn't Be Allowed on MTV Anymore
After word emerged yesterday that MTV was planning an extreme dieting beauty pageant, we knew it was time to ask ourselves, "Do we still want our MTV?" Many of us grew up in a time where the network was perceived as alternative, cutting-edge, and cool, though it's hard to picture the stars who made it that way getting a foot through the door of the modern-day MTV casting office. Here, then, are seven iconic MTV personalities who would have no place on a network that now fills its programming with multiple iterations of the "spoiled rich girl" reality genre: -
rudderless brooklyn
Nobodies, They're Just Like Us :(
Another Real World: Brooklyn sighting: "Ran into two douchebag looking guys (with popped collars) in Fairway in Red Hook on Saturday. Their identities were confirmed by the circling cameras and an annoyed employee alerting coworkers on her walkie talkie." I'm sure the crazed shopping cart wielding old Fairway ladies just lurved that.
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Comment by Jeezabub: @tigolbitties: I'll pile on that. Church it up indeed. more » | Other threads
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reality tv
Reality Star to Have Cancer Diagnosis Broadcast to Millions
I guess there are probably two camps on this story, about an Indian reality show star who will have her reaction to a cervical cancer diagnosis broadcast around the entire subcontinent. Some feel that Jade Goody, a British woman on the Big Brother-esque reality program Bigg Boss, should have had her tearful reaction to the news she received over the phone kept private. Others, like me, feel that these are the few moments when reality television actually feels like, well, reality. More »
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rudderless brooklyn
Real World: Brooklyn Cast Descends on Red Hook?
It begins. The Real World: Brooklyn kids, whose imminent presence has long been looming over the funkiest borough, have finally arrived. NewYorkology posted a few pictures of some polo shirt clad mooks surrounded by a camera crew in Red Hook, their rumored neighborhood of choice. Based on the above photo, I've assigned names and descriptions to the cast members, after the jump. More »
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Comment by JoanofAnarchy: OMG I grew up in Nashua, NH (not proud) AND my lil sis is drinking her way through ASU!! She... more » | Other threads
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rudderless brooklyn
Real World: Brooklyn Moving to Red Hook
Ruh roh. The dreaded Real World: Brooklyn is on the move again. The Brooklyn Paper reports today that due to slow renovations at the BellTel lofts, the downtown BK building that MTV had originally eyed as housing for the seven vodka-infused strangers, the producers have settled on a new spot. Now the cast will likely be housed at Pier 41 in Red Hook, already the home of the legendary Fairway grocery store and the new, megalopolis IKEA. (IKEA has furnished the RW houses for many a season. Easy moving for the pre-production crew, at least!) “I’d rather have another Ikea,” said a resident when asked about the impending storm of camera crews and drunken braying. More » -
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The Real World: Congress
Is America ready for a Real World cast member to serve in Congress? Don't worry, it's just Kevin, from season one! Back then Kevin Powell was sporting a high top and being the serious guy in the New York house with Heather B and the southern girl and the model guy and the other guy. Now, Powell has shaved his head and declared his candidacy for Congress from Brooklyn. And if young people can't relate to this guy, all hope for political engagement is lost. Observe Powell's stellar set of pop culture credentials: More »
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the real world
Drugs, Sex And Public Puking: 'Real World: Hollywood' Sinks The Franchise Even Further
What has turned into one of the highest-rated Real World seasons in years has also proven to be the most debaucherous. In previous seasons, we've seen more than our fair share of alcoholics, sexists and good girls gone bad, but the current 20th season cast has every problem child type all living together in one (environmentally friendly!) abode. Just rounding the halfway mark, the show has already kicked out two roommates: charismatic online audition winner Greg was given the heave-ho weeks ago, and naive little bully Joey left for drug treatment after admitting he was a daily cocaine and ecstasy user. And finally, the bratty and conservative Sarah succumbed to the tried-and-true Good Girl Drenches Hollywood In Vomit And Venom plot line, brilliantly set to Jim Morrison’s angst-ridden shouts and ending with an adorably retro Charles Barkley reference. More » -
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Darwin Award
"I failed to realize that 'Real World' is known for getting bombed all the time." — Joey Kovar from The Real World: Hollywood on his poor decision to be on MTV's once interesting, now sad and drunken reality series. Kovar, who struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, left the show early. [Us]
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Comment by valet_of_the_dolls: @AndIAmTellingYou: The word "enabling" comes to mind. Also, "pander".Do not want. more » | Other threads
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I Want My MTV Back
MTV Ejects Most Exciting, Charismatic 'Real World' Cast Member In Years
We've already admitted that the Real World series lost us more than a few years ago. We grew especially despondent after that Las Vegas: Reunion idea, and hardly noticed when the current Hollywood-set season began. Then one recent Lazy Sunday, we found ourselves flipping through the channels and spotting a young man named Greg. You see, Greg is Puck, Irene, Trisha and Coral all meshed into one handsome package. He steals panties. He cries in the confessional. He's violent. He doesn't clean up. His heart breaks. He punches walls. And last night, the producers decided to eject Greg from the current pack, claiming he hadn't been putting enough effort into his "job." But after taking a look back at the long list of past Real World ejections, we're dumbfounded as to why MTV has made a habit of kicking off some of the most charismatic, entertaining and (warning: cliché lies ahead) "real" people on the show. A clip of the brutal send-off from last night, plus a recap of the top three most erroneous ejections pre-Greg after the jump. More » -
rudderless brooklyn
The Real World: Brooklyn Finally Gets Its Neighborhood
As rumored earlier, the new season of MTV's geriatric (and "pioneering" blah blah) reality series The Real World will be set in "downtown" Brooklyn. The producers are calling the neighborhood Fort Greene, but that's as amorphous a real estate designation as any of the others in Crooklyn (after describing where I live to various people, I've come to the conclusion that I live in 172 different neighborhoods. I just call it Stinktown). The seven drunken, broken strangers will be perched high above the Jay St./Borough Hall subway stop in a $6 million bi-terraced, 10-feet-windowed deluxe apartment in the sky (with, of course, hepatitis-filled jacuzzi!). A promo video for the apartment building (the Belltel lofts) that will try to contain the nightmare is above. Watch it. It's a good lesson in how to talk to/understand insanely dumb yet inexplicably rich New Yorkers.
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shut up, brooklyn
Our Plan For The Real World: Brooklyn
Oh good Christ. The next season of The Real World, MTV's drunken, disease-riddled dinosaur of a reality series, (the 21st!) will be set in Brooklyn. The current season, which threw a bunch of damaged wannabe stars into a "green" sound studio in Hollywood, is getting annoyingly high ratings. So, the network has decided to sally forth with yet another installment, apparently continuing the smaller-part of an already done city trend, and will dump a bunch of yokels and rubes in our trendiest and irritatingest borough. Now, we don't know for sure which little enclave of Brooklyn the producers are thinking about, but we assume it's somewhere real and gritty, like off the Bedford L! Yes, it seems fairly inevitable that our broken Zelda Fitzgeralds will be plopped into some gorgeous crash pad in hipster Disneyland Williamsburg, but we have a better idea! Why, not the notorious Bushwick McKibbin dorms?? More »
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disasters
Real World Star Hates Fatties and Whores, Wants You To Love Her
Yesterday I wrote about MTV's flagship reality show, The Real World, and how its cast members have become increasingly fake and showy. This prompted a wise tipster to point me toward the audition videos for the new season's (set in Hollywood, natch) waxy, belligerently dumb cast. The most outstandingly awful has to be Columbia, SC South'run belle Kimberly. She hates ugly people. And fat people! Oh, and she really hates "whores." She wants to be famous. One time, zoh mah gah it was so funny, she knocked out her two front teeth with a glass at a bar, just like that "don't drink!" PSA. On the show she professes that she'd like to be an entertainment reporter, giving us the scoop on the likes of Lindsay Lohan and friends. A noble aspiration. It's all id running wild, and a prime example of how these kids feel they must behave in order to embarrass themselves on national television. Video after the jump. More »
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reality tv
Show Mommy on the Doll Where The Real World Touched Us
Jeff Gordiner tries to tease out the societal impact of The Real World in Details this month, and he mostly succeeds. I'm all for affixing big ideas onto shallow pop culture, the bigger and more out-there the better. Gordiner says that this reality show most in need of disinfectant "ushered in a New America"! One in which we not only navel gaze, but navel videotape and broadcast. Remember that little Real Real World book that came out a number of years ago? That was an early Facebook, he says! All the mundane and inane aspects of people's lives suddenly take on import, simply by being there, available for consumption. That sounds pretty accurate. We care about some pretty meaningless shit these days. But what he doesn't get into, and I wish he would, is how performative the cast members have become, how the show has ceased to be reality and now exists somewhere between fact and fiction, between a low budget documentary and community theatre. More »
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the clip show
Lessons Learned
What did we learn about our favorite celebrities this week? Glad you asked! More » -
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Reality
Remember The Real World? Yeah, it's still on. As the show's 112th season (set somewhere on the moon or something) begins, take a look back at some of the series' most memorable and most forgettable faces, and how time has ravaged them. -
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Perfect Metaphor for Creative Arc of The Real World Exists
[Eric Nies, from the original season of MTV's "The Real World" and host of "The Grind," at a party in Hollywood yesterday celebrating all 19 (!) seasons of the once pioneering, now dreadful reality show; image via WENN] More » -
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'Real World Awards' To Celebrate Nineteen Seasons Of Enabling Reality TV's Most Unashamed Attention-Whores
To help celebrate the premiere of the The Real World's upcoming Hollywood-set season where the series can abandon the already-flimsy pretense its houseguests are there for any reason other than attracting the attention of personal-appearance agents who find mall-opening star-quality in their ability to fight with and/or fuck their castmates, MTV is throwing The Real World Awards Bash: Roast 'Em and Toast 'Em on March 29. It's an awards show! And a roast! And a...toast! Polling is now open on MTV.com, where viewers can vote for their favorite melodramatic phonecall that messily ended a long-distance relationship, drunken altercation with law-enforcement officials annoyed by the presence of a camera crew, and hot-tub orgy that threatened the reproductive health of all involved. (We're really pulling for the Vegas season's Steven, Trishelle and Brynn three-way for that last category.) More » -
defamer
'The Real World 'To Introduce Seven Strangers Into Hollywood's Already Overcrowded Famewhore Population
Having apparently exhausted every other viable urban setting in which to film a variety of easily recognizable, TV-friendly character types bickering over dirty dishes, fucking each other, and vomiting upon the sidewalks outside of nightclubs where they consume the alcohol that will fuel their next bickering/fucking cycle, MTV is returning The Real World to Los Angeles some 14 years after its first rampage through our fair city. Huzzah! More specifically, they'll be housing their 20th season exhibitionists in Hollywood, where the production's omnipresent camera crew should blend in seamlessly with the ones that record the every public appearance of the fame-damaged celebrities the cast members will so desperately try to emulate during their stay. More » -
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This Is the True Story of a Very Expensive Loft
Great news for those of you who can actually participate in NYC real estate: the Hudson street triplex used for MTV's Real World: Back to New York is now available, fully furnished, for your rental enjoyment at a nice $35,000 per month. The brokers at Stribling are calling it a "Tuscany penthouse," but it just strikes us as an oversized, over-decorated footnote to the pop-culture history book. But that doesn't mean there isn't some loaded, D-list starfucking douche out there who's going to snap it up ASAP just so he can pretend he's the Miz. More »
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