Posted by
JP on Monday, December 17, 2007 11:48:10 AM
Dancing With The Candidates
by Burt
Prelutsky [scriptwriter] 12/17/07
I
believe I could very well be the only person in America with a TV set
who has never watched a single so-called reality show. I also believe
that many of you are sitting there convinced that if I’m not outright
lying, I am certainly stretching the truth to the breaking point. How
could anyone, you’re asking yourselves, not have tuned in for 15
minutes of “Survivor” or “The Bachelor” or caught a tango or two on
“Dancing With the Stars”?
The
answer quite simply is that I’m just not interested. I’m not a snob
where TV is concerned. I watch “Monk” if I’m home, some old movies on
TCM, baseball from April to October, and I’m a big fan of the Canadian
sit com, “Corner Gas.”
But
why would I want to spend my time watching Jane Seymour or Marie Osmond
dancing or Simon Cowell scowling? A better question is: why are so
many of you planning your lives around these shows? Don’t people have
hobbies anymore? Is nobody out there crocheting or putting ships in
bottles or whittling? Isn’t anyone playing canasta or charades? [more]