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        Move over Ozzy and Harriette, it's time for Ozzy and and Sharon
                                        
> MTV shacked up with the Osbournes for six months, with the now-familiar
> intention of capturing the experiences of “real people” in their natural
> habitat. The table-turning difference here is that the Osbournes are not
> the tedious “real people” of the televised variety. They—or their
> paterfamilias, anyway—are already famous. And if the series makes one thing
> abundantly clear, it's that after 30 years, being famous is a job like any
> other—a job that requires dressing up in “Moulin Rouge” drag and fellating
> a banana, but a job nonetheless. (And one with its own pitfalls. “Darling,”
> Ozzy patiently explains to Kelly when she complains about his failing
> hearing, “you have not been standing in front of a billion decibels for 30
> years. Just write me a note.”) 
> 
> … When English neighbors keep the Osbournes up at all hours playing techno
> music and singing “My Girl” with acoustic guitar accompaniment, Ozzy finds
> himself thinking longingly of his old neighbor, Pat Boone. Sharon misses
> him, too. “He was just the best person ever to live next door to. You don't
> realize it until you get the neighbor from hell.” 
> 

Via Robot Wisdom [1], Herman Numster, rock god [2] 

No wonder this show is popular. How often do you get such a disconnect
between a bat head biting rock star and a father telling his daughter not to
consume drugs, and they're the same person? Or that he preferred Pat Boone as
a neighbor? (they must have had a good relationship—what else explains Pat's
Heavy Metal album? [3]) 

[1] http://www.robotwisdom.com/
[2] http://salon.com/ent/tv/diary/2002/04/11/osbournes/
[3] http://www.rossetta.com/patboone.htm

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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