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Tuesday, April 27. 2010
Wildly Entertaining!
Everyone knows I have guilty pleasures and quite frankly, I’m not feeling guilty about any of them, except for maybe Ghost Hunters. Naah, not even that TV show. In fact, Wednesday Nights are sacrosanct in my household so I can watch three hours of the TAPS crew, headed by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, hunting ghosts and debunking sightings and experiences.We’re still waiting for a ghost to smile for the cameras, but nearly every week we get ghostly shadows, disembodied voices on the Electronic Voice Phenomenon recorders and sometimes members of the team get touched!
Some people say I’m touched.
The real guilty pleasure with Ghost Hunters though is that I like to see the two women ghost hunters on the show, Kris Williams and Amy Bruni. Being a guy, and a skeptic in matters of entertainment and media, my first thought was that these two lovely women were brought into the TAPS team for their looks and maybe they had a prior interest in the paranormal. What the Hell, every TV show needs to have some eye candy and the same could be said for the two young male investigators, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango … err … I assume. Who knows what young women find attractive.
My skepticism was unfounded — somewhat.
Bruni has a long history of paranormal investigation. Her father is an amateur paranormal investigator so Amy has been researching the paranormal her entire life. Williams has had experiences with the paranormal, but her main passions are genealogy and history, two fields that lend themselves to the overall investigative nature of Ghost Hunters.
Most interesting about Williams: she has also been a carpenter and flooring installer. That cute little waif of a woman? Well then she knows creaking floors and settling timber.
Still, being a skeptic, I would bet being physically attractive makes the addition of Williams and Bruni to the TAPS team a plus for both the team and the TV network, SyFi. It’s all about the ratings.
Just have to say, I didn’t start watching Ghost Hunters for the women on the team. Didn’t even know they were there and when the show first came to my attention there were different women who really didn’t catch my prurient interest the way Williams and Bruni do.
There is a TV show, on E! that I watch entirely to please my prurient interests, Pretty Wild. I really don’t watch The Girls Next Door anymore. Maybe I should, but a guy has only so much time and this year, my pleasure is Pretty Wild. I may of course purchase all the DVD’s from The Girls Next Door just because the parts that are blurred or bleeped on TV are not blurred or bleeped on the DVD’s. I’m hoping the same is true for Pretty Wild.
What first got me interested in the program was that one of the “stars” happens to be Playboy Cyber Girl Tess Taylor Arlington, who is now the 2010 Cyber Girl of the Year. Okay! But, being on E!, you know there will be moments when the network has to blur and bleep. Tess and her sister, Alexis, have been trying to become fashion models, especially in the glamour and lingerie fields: specifically in those fields actually, so we know there will be numerous “wardrobe malfunctions.”
It’s apparent now that when Arlington first appeared as a Cyber Girl in July, 2009, the network was at least planning the TV show, which didn’t debut until Sunday, March 14, 2010. Filming began sometime in late 2009, before Alexis was arrested on suspicion of being a part of the “Bling Ring.”
You may have heard of it; young Hollywood wannabes burgled the homes of famous young stars, stealing their bling and clothes and then wearing it around Hollywood, going to parties to show off their ill-gotten booty. And maybe their bootays as well. They are young and live in Hollywood after all.
That’s pretty much how the show debuted. Alexis and Tess were just getting hired to model for a lingerie company, Biatta Intimates, were planning on modeling for LA Fashion Week and then … Alexis gets arrested, the police tell the TV crew to turn off the cameras, the home of the Neiers family is searched and off to jail goes Alexis.
This show actually has more crying than any other show I’ve seen. Alexis does most of the crying, as she is biologically the oldest child of her mother, Andrea Arlington so is most likely to be the most spoiled. Tess is an adopted daughter of Andrea and her husband, Jerry Dunn, but for purposes of modeling, Tess has taken her adoptive mom’s maiden name of Arlington. And that’s really about as convoluted as it gets.
Oh ... and Mom Andrea raises her kids according to the teachings of the movie, The Secret. I’ve never seen it or read the book, but apparently it’s a self-help tome that says that what you believe and envision will become reality. “And so it is.” They also appear to be, some what at least, into Buddhism. There are a lot of Buddhas around the house and Tess has a lovely Buddha in a lotus tattooed on her side.
We have to wonder though, as many other blogs and sites have wondered, what is it we find so fascinating about “realty TV,” especially shows like Pretty Wild. Other than the attractive mom and her three equally attractive daughters, there’s really nothing of great import. The premise is that the girls have been brought up with very little structure, the two older girls, Tess and Alexis get into all sorts of situations.
With Ghost Hunters, I’m waiting for a ghost to smile for the cameras. With Pretty Wild, well, so far I want to see if Alexis gets out of the mess she’s in with the law and of course I’m waiting for the wardrobe malfunctions.
There are people I know who can’t miss an episode of Dancing with the Stars or American Idol. The problem I have with those programs is that the American public gets to vote on who stays and goes and some of the contestants stay far longer than their talent allows. I did watch an episode of DWTS (if you’re cool, you know the text shorthand) just to see Pamela Anderson!Actually, the only program I watch with any regularity is Ghost Hunters. And it really isn’t for Amy Bruni or Kris Williams. I like the investigations and once in a while — ONCE IN A WHILE! — they have such a provocative show I’m checking all the dark corners and moving shadows in this little condo.
Despite the hot participants of DWTS and PW, what the two shows are doing really doesn’t capture my interest. Yeah, it’s nice to see a side of Tess Taylor Arlington we don’t experience from her Playboy appearances, but after a few episodes, eh. I’ll keep watching just to see if and how Alexis gets out of the charges that she was part of the burglary ring. In truth, being a bit of a spiritual person myself, I was kind of hoping to see more about the family’s spiritual beliefs. But I’ve only watched three episodes so far so maybe we’ll see more of that in future episodes, if I can remember when it’s on. Sunday Nights, I think.
There’s really nothing exciting or controversial about Pretty Wild, not yet anyway. At the moment Tess is dating a singer from an unknown rock band. Musicians! We’ll see how long that lasts. And I’m not jealous in the least!
For real controversy, you should check out the Playboy forums. Because of her tattoos, piercings and TV show, a lot of subscribers are unhappy with the selection of Tess to be the Cyber Girl of the Year. The conspiracy theories rival those of the Kennedy Assassination and who actually planned and carried out the attacks of 9/11. If you haven’t heard that one, it has to do with Bush (43) and his Administration orchestrating those attacks. The planes slamming into the Twin Towers all a hoax. Seriously, there are people who believe it.But that’s a topic for another day. Right now, I wanna watch the clips from Pretty Wild on their Web Site and leave messages on their message boards to piss off all the people who watch the show and hate it. That’s the funniest part of this: there are people who hate Pretty Wild but watch it every week nonetheless. The question is: is this appropriate programming for our children? Well — duh — it’s on cable, late at night. Maybe the kids would be better off watching One Tree Hill or the Gilmore Girls.
So there’s this clip of Tess and Alexis in Cabo San Lucas running around in bikinis …
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