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How Fake Is The City, And Why Do We Care?

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hughman
12/30/08

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whitney and jay... MISMATCH!!
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Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC
12/29/08

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Hmmm, in a bad economy in which joblessness runs rampant, it's the apex of irony to watch a fake reality show about real people with fake jobs.
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bloodflower
12/29/08

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i used to like kelly cutrone. why did she get involved in this bullshit?
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Ramseylicious
12/29/08

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I'm so torn here. I never miss an episode of "The Hills" and will probably never miss an episode of "The City," but can't really explain why I keep going back for more. And I'm not really sure what the people (producers, writers, cast) want us to think. Do they know that we know that it's not real? Do they think that we actually think it is real? Do they want us to simply play along? Do they care at all either way??? As long as we're watching!?!?!?!?

Despite all that confusion, I will say that I totally miss old school reality tv. I mentioned Heather B in an earlier post. Totally miss that whole era. I even miss the first season of "Laguna Beach," with LC's sad little love triangle, Trey and his activism and Kristen looking like a total asshole in chokers and oversized sweatshirts. *sigh*
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ElleL
12/29/08

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I have a friend who's sister is going to be on this show ONLY because Olivia Palermo currently dates her ex boyfriend. Her name is Sami, and she "fake" works as a Manager at Bergdorf's on the show. (She's 22).

Oh reality tv, you're doing it wrong.
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The HZA.
12/29/08

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My friend and I were talking the other day about how we could never be on a reality show because we are too smart and aware. Every once and a while they let a smart one in. Which I noticed the other night when watching Real Chance at Love and MILF mentioned how she doesn't care she once posed for Playboy because she has been better behaved than anyone else in front of the cameras. And I can't believe I typed that last sentence.
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Crabby Cakes
12/29/08

@The HZA.: There are so many things wrong/hilarious about this comment that I do not know where to start.
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tscheese
12/29/08

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But, like, there's this big tall building that's like, named after her! And she like, totally said that her "reality" is less of a life, and more of a vehicle. Maybe that vehicle is like, buses. Maybe she actually is the "Port" Authority, guys! Like, that's, like, Midtown, right?
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JinxyMcDeath
12/29/08

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Well to be fair I live in Hells Kitchen/Clinton/Midtown. And when people say "where do you live", I say all 3...
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/29/08

@JinxyMcDeath: But clearly you're aware of all three existing and of your place within the overlap. To not know whether you're in Gramercy, a place with high self-identification and exclusivity...or "Midtown," a broadly classified swath of island... it shows you haven't bothered to look at a map in order to navigate to/from it, ever.
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R_Claw
12/29/08

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I'm guessing she lives in Murray Hill. Sorry to hate, but not a fan.
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Jessi Ramsey
12/29/08

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I live in Harlem and have a feeling that this idea of the city does not include my neighborhood.
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hellosunshine
12/29/08

@Jessi Ramsey: Ew, isn't that in like, Jersey??
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/29/08

@Jessi Ramsey: I'm in Harlem too! Are you near the 2/3 or the A/C/B/D?
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tscheese
12/29/08

@bitchytexan (hellodarling!): Ew! Isn't Jersey, like, in Staten Island?
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CHIC NOIR
12/29/08

@Mkp-hearts-NYC: 2/3 my sweet & you?
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/29/08

@chic noir: Mee toooo!
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AthertonMerriweather
12/29/08

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Coming this spring, MTV presents The Commenter. A show about a 29 year old girl who works as an accountant, but does very little work and comments on a website all day long. In the evenings, she spends time with her imaginary cat, Crinkles. She's fun, she's fearless...she's the commenter!
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Crabby Cakes
12/29/08

@AthertonMerriweather: Now this? This I would watch.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
12/29/08

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So, does making the reality show about fake circumstances make the fake circumstances become real?

If so, I am casting for a show, starring me, as a famous writer/ actress/ unicorn tamer whose pool boy (James McAvoy) gets into naked shenanegans and whose agent (Daniel Craig) gets into naked shenanegans and whose unicorn raiser (Clive Owen) - you guessed it - gets into naked shenanegans. As my husband is real, I will not be doing and naughty things with my staff, but I will watch as you do. Who wants to be on my show?
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
12/29/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: I do, I do! And I'm single, so I am casting Maria Bello as my massage therapist, Viggo Mortensen as my hot-tub handyman, and John Legend as my obstetrician/lullaby singer.
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DangerMouse
12/29/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: I'll be 3rd of your BFF quartet (since SaTC told us we must operate in foursomes). I'll be in a love triangle with Craig and McAvoy and constantly go to you and Sarah for advice about my own neuroses.

Also, I will eat Sour Patch Kids all the time, never get fat, and never get that roof-of-the-mouth pain.
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The HZA.
12/29/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: Pick MEEEEEEEEE
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Crabby Cakes
12/29/08

@DangerMouse: I had to wonder, was Craig really the guy for me? I'd have to ask BHB. And then it hit me, my friends don't give an ounce of shit about my self-centered rantings. I'm gonna go screw James with my bra on.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
12/29/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: Sweet baby jeebus, pick me! I'll bring along Ewan "The Biker" McGregor and Hugh "Reacher of Tall Things" Jackman as my goofy too-charming-to-be-in-a-relationship... roommates and see whose feminine wiles tame them first....
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morninggloria
12/29/08

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These shows infuriate me because I know so many people who are so much smarter, more interesting, more driven, and more capable than the vapid fried and dyed nimrods being showcased. And yet, the nimrods seem to glide effortlessly into coveted jobs, sigh their way through cocktail receptions held at the world's most cutting edge art galleries, start crying into their caviar at the best restaurants in the world, occupy their minds with hamster on a treadmill thoughts about the douchebags who slept with them and then didn't call.

The Hills and all of its bastard children are a glorification of people who don't deserve it and a reminder that life is absolutely not fair.
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TexasCrude
12/29/08

@morninggloria: I hear you there, sister friend.

I stopped watching the Hills and all that other mess by the first season because I was so enfuriated at the fact that Lauren decided to not go to Paris. All for some dude she wasn't even with anymore. The worst part? THE TRIP WAS FREE.

No one would have to tell my broke ass twice. I'd be on the red eye there before you could finish the question.
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morninggloria
12/29/08

@TexasCrude: These shows taught me that no matter how hard I work at making myself a better person, some day I will be bossed around by one of these dipshits who doesn't deserve it.

Solution: drugs.
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marimari
12/29/08

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I'm more baffled by the fact that DVF signed up for this? Why????
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The HZA.
12/29/08

@marimari: I know. I thought DVF was too cool for it.
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EleanorRigby
12/29/08

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Fake job or not, the stairs at DVF headquarters from that episode where Whit goes on her "interview" are scary (and way stupid for a place where the expected footwear height is >4 inches).
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