On Nov 20, 2007 3:05 PM, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Say what? At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush > fell over the room. "What did they do to us?" asked > one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and > the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to > us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The > masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, > where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal > basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster > was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar's depression > was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn't exist." > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
We can't have any reality in TV. Downbeat living and depression, who would excel from that? When they edited out Oscar smoking the pipe in Monsterpiece Theater, I had to laugh. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
