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Strange but True – Part Three

Strange but True – Part Three

– CHAPTER THREE –

“Kai axe you question?” the reservationist shouted across the office, staring straight at my cubicle, as she raised her chin for emphasis.

“Sure,” I answered, startled by the thick accent that essentially stamped ‘The Bronx’ across her forehead.

“Can you do me a righteous solid?” she continued, almost skipping across the room, while continuing to answer the phone.

“Hold on a second sweetie,” she said, raising her index finger in the air. “Yes, we’re looking forward to seeing Mr. Luder at 12:30. We’ll have his table […]

October 8, 2012 | 2 Comments More
Strange but True

Strange but True

- CHAPTER ONE -

“Jack is going to fuck you,” Linda told me matter of factly with a blank, dead stare that suggested she was probably in a black out.

“Absolutely not,” I shot back, shaking my head vigorously with one eye on the traffic light, waiting for the cue that I could sprint across Third Avenue without getting hit by a taxi.

“Yes, he is,” Linda assured me, slowly blinking both eyes over her static, cartoon smiley face.

“Absolutely not,” I repeated. “I’m going to my apartment. You’re going […]

October 7, 2012 | 11 Comments More
A Post-Season Look at Reality TV vs. Real Life Success

A Post-Season Look at Reality TV vs. Real Life Success

(October 6, 2012) – I don’t know what it is. Is it that I can no longer discuss the packaging design of Sonja Morgan‘s non-existent toaster oven? Is it that I’ve grown exhausted by Aviva Drescher‘s never-ending rage about how her relatives are received in social situations? Is it that Ramona Singer never seems to change or grow and instead stands immovably in her own peculiar mix of personality quirks and facial tics?

Is it that LuAnn de Lesseps has been phoning it in all season long by […]

October 6, 2012 | 5 Comments More
RHONJ: Nothing left but the shoutin’

RHONJ: Nothing left but the shoutin’

This is the true story… of television executives… picked to run a cable network…
work together and have their way with the lives of families…
to find out what happens…when wily programmers stop being honest… and start getting manipulative…
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY

(October 1, 2012) – The cast hadn’t been all together since the night before last year’s reunion when the group imploded at the annual Infamous Posche Fashion show which we saw last week. They shouldn’t have bothered to get together for this year’s reunion which […]

September 30, 2012 | 13 Comments More
An Open Letter to Andy Cohen

An Open Letter to Andy Cohen

September 29, 2012

Mr. Andy Cohen
NBC Universal
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112

Oh Andy,

I bet you have no idea how critical I have grown of you and Bravo. I can’t really blame you. I imagine you have bigger fish to fry than to consider what a minor blogger thinks about your Housewives shows, the cornerstones of your network.

Still I can’t help but wonder how shortsighted it was to let them slip so far into a cesspool of dramatic screaming matches and character-assassinating name calling. Please […]

September 29, 2012 | 28 Comments More
Is it time to take it to Reality TV court?

Is it time to take it to Reality TV court?

(September 28, 2012) – Oh yes, this is going to be another bizarre thought. After all it’s Friday, the time when strange ideas always cross my mind as I begin to pack up and head out of town in search of the quieter world outside of Manhattan. Here, as I toss my Ipad into my over-sized purse with a couple of pairs of underwear and a sweater or two, a nutty pipe dream crossed my mind.

Would it be apropos to put the entire cast of the Real Housewives of […]

September 28, 2012 | 13 Comments More
Pesky Seniors, Universal Pain and Professional Hysterics

Pesky Seniors, Universal Pain and Professional Hysterics

(September 24, 2012) – In a world where a judgmental, self-described “41 year old amputee” sends her octogenarian father to confront her nemesis under the guise of delivering a donation to a “ladies who lunch” charity fashion show, I am out of my league. I am just not equipped to discuss in depth what is just too ridiculous for words.

And despite the fact that I can readily see that Aviva Drescher‘s father, George, was an annoying gnat who chased Ramona Singer around that penthouse like a champ, I […]

September 25, 2012 | 19 Comments More
What I Believe…

What I Believe…

(September 24, 2012) – While I couldn’t care less about this, I believe Melissa Gorga was a dancer at Lookers, the “gentleman’s club” in Patterson, New Jersey. The reason I believe this is based partially on the phrase “set up.” I believe that if someone asserts something that is not true, it is called “a lie.” I believe that if someone says something to embarrass you that is actually true, it is called ” a set up.” The other reason I think this is true is that Melissa went quietly […]

September 24, 2012 | 30 Comments More
Did Melissa Set Herself Up?

Did Melissa Set Herself Up?

(September 23, 2012) – I am puzzled by the premise of tonight’s finale episode of the Real Housewives of New Jersey. And it all really comes down to the question of what a “set up” is. I started to think about this earlier today while checking out Melissa Gorga‘s blog where she writes very clearly “I was never a stripper…If I was a stripper, I would say I was. I have nothing against them…”

Reading those words instantly triggered in my mind a replay of that final snippet of […]

September 23, 2012 | 27 Comments More
Hurricane Aviva and the Aftermath

Hurricane Aviva and the Aftermath

(September 18, 2012) – In the protracted world of Bravo, where things that occurred over a few weeks, get stretched out into months – and in the case of Franklin Lakes, a full year – there is Aviva Drescher‘s vacation flip out and then there is the painful aftermath. And by “aftermath” I mean the fodder for endless kvetching about how St. Barths proved to be the location for the vacation from hell. (What a way promote a travel partner, Bravo!)

To loosely borrow Carole Radziwill‘s Carrie Bradshaw […]

September 18, 2012 | 13 Comments More
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