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Thursday, August 29, 2002 |
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News: CBS to revive Beverly Hillbillies as a reality show -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9235-2002Aug28.html Comment: If this wasn't in the Washington Post, I'd suspect someone was pulling a prank. I guess the concept is that CBS will find a real "hillbilly"-type family from somewhere in the rural South and plunk them into a Beverly Hills, CA, lifestyle. I'm skeptical this is going to work. It was a funny TV show back in the '60s, when you could really believe there were still remote, hill-dwelling rubes who thought a swimming pool was a "cement pond." But in 2002, with Internet and satellite TV available everywhere? Will viewers really believe that the family CBS selects will be as socially and culturally out-of-touch as the original Beverly Hillbillies? I doubt it. Talk about being out-of-touch. Only some TV programmers stuck in Hollywood could dream this up and think it's creative. News: What's your name mean?-- http://www.behindthename.com/ Comment: This is kind of fun. For example, Michael comes from the Hebrew name Mikha'el meaning "who is like God?". I interpret that to mean "god-like king of the bloggers." News: Tiny little gadgets from Japan -- http://www.dynamism.com/index.shtml Comment: I like the tiny cell phone (http://www.dynamism.com/t66/index.shtml Click here to see current comments and add your own. 11:39:42 AM 
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