around and around we go

The popular network and home of The Real Housewives of New York City, Bravo, is set to start filming a documentary-style reality show based on the lives of Manhattan’s private school teens.  Bravo has seen the success of shows like Gossip Girl and The Hills and has found their own way of capitalizing on this nerve-grating rich kid obsession.  Little detail has been released on who the stars of the show will be and the names of the schools will remain anonymous:

Speculations from….. Internet speculators reflect concerns about how realistic this show could possibly be, and how wealthy the stars of the show will actually be. Obviously as shallow as the premise of this show is, they can’t exactly show these teens blowing lines in clubs they aren’t even close to being of age to enter, and I doubt cameras will be granted access to their friends homes when they go to raid their parent’s medicine cabinets of all the Valium, painkillers, and Xanax they can get their hands on. Without that kind of controversial material, all you’re left with is a glorified, serial version of My Super Sweet 16, and I doubt even Hills fans could stomach that. (more…)

i sort of wish they were all facing the same direction

just me and the girls, you know, hanging out

Celebrity baby photos have become the anti-mugshot. Unlike those endlessly entertaining records of coke binges and wrong-direction-on-the-freeway joy rides, they are not part of the public record, allowing scoop-happy magazines and money hungry celebrities to crave them in equal measure. Apparently, common folk like you and me are also enamored of the glossy portraits: tabloids regularly shell out seven-figure sums for the shots in anticipation of the circulations boosts they provide. Celebrities, in addition to throwing more money in their vaults, can use the opportunity of a newborn picture for career resuscitation (Tori Spelling, if we use the term career generously), rumor deflection, or personality transformation (Angelina Jolie from vaguely incestuous hellion to benevolent earth mother). 

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