Do you remember the name, Rick
Rockwell?
Let me give you a hint.
Ze Capitan
I guess that doesn't remind you
either. Well you might remember his former wife...
now you get the idea.
Does this help you?
He was one man who
starred in a film where the main characters save the world from tomatoes.
And in the real life this mans former wife, within weeks of their
marriage and divorce, shows the world her tomatoes.
This turns out to be one of the best selling issues in Playboy history.
Now you remember...
Don't you.
Once the talk of every
radio and television station, now just a forgotten blip on the pop
culture radar.
Let me take you back to
the year 1973 this is when the hell of reality television was born.
This is the American
dream:
An American Family
It wasn't MTV that
created the first reality television show, the finger could be pointed at.
Let me give you a quick
run through on the first reality programming:
It was 12 hours of fun following around the family of William C. Loud of
Santa Barbra, California. About 10 Million Viewers watched the demise of
this family in a condensed version of 7 months. Bill and Pat Loud and their five children
Lance, Kevin, Grant, Delilah and Michele are to blame for reality tv.
They didn't exactly walk
away with a million dollars for lasting the horrid weeks.
Nor did the family end with a couple whittling down to a marriage.
Actually the tensions
within the family lead to the demise of Bill and Pat's marriage.
This show was far ahead of it's time, especially when their eldest son
Lance became the first openly gay person in television history.
On December 22, 2001, at age
50, Lance Loud died of liver failure caused by a hepatitis C and HIV
co-infection. Several months before his death, Loud asked Alan and Susan
Raymond, the Academy Award-winning filmmakers of the original An American
Family series, to film a final episode in the Loud story.
Reality television has
taken over our sets and has changed our pop culture.
What is wrong with this
world when we try to forget everything that's happening in our lives and
drink from the venom of reality television.
It's almost as if
everyone is afraid of something.
Let me tell you
something really quickly.
You have nothing to
worry about! You don't live in Israel.
They are in fear of
cross fire and of terrorist attacks every hour they are still alive.
We have Evan Marriott
and the 20 woman, that just want his multimillion dollar "inheritance."
What makes us happy?
Richard Hatch...
Tina Wesson...
Ethan Zohn...
Vecepia Towery...
Brian Heidik...
all past Survivor
winners.
the former Bachelorette
Millions of viewers.
Billions of dollars in Advertising.
Watching your Sim carve a garden gnome
Happiness.
Are you ashamed?
i am.
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