August 21, 2008
LNS Reality Show Has a Name
On the heels of the announcement that Lifetime picked up the Late Night Shots-inspired reality show that's been in development since early this year, we now have the title. According to the Post's Lisa de Moraes, they're going to call it Blonde Charity Mafia. That's the nickname three of the show's main characters have given themselves, due to their reputation for throwing elaborate parties that raise money for charitable causes.
So what do you think of the name? It doesn't exactly scream "Washington, D.C.," but maybe that's all for the best. At least this way, the title accurately reflects that the show is following the lives of these specific characters, and not pretending to represent some larger view of what the lives of young people in D.C. are really like.
A Late Night Shots thread discussing the title is largely filled with skepticism about its appeal. Some excerpts:
"Real Housewives of Orange County" is pretty straightforward and appealing because of the location. Blonde Charity Mafia will evoke feelings of anger in people who don't even know what it is.
The last time I heard the phrase, "Charity Mafia" thousands of compassionate Americans were being robbed by fake telemarketers who stated that donations were going to Katrina victims and instead went to underground crime organizations. This business model was of course purchased from CEB.
god this is embarassing
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Like, Oh my God...
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i don't get it. you can't have show on lifetime without someone getting cancer or a child abducted. are you sure you have the network right?
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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I take it Herpes Simplex Fabulous was already trademaked?
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Please stop writing about this.
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Judging by the picture, I'm guessing there will be a lot of girls going "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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I guess when they mean charity, they mean, helping those poor frat boys get another beer and later on helping those poor frat boys out of their sweaty clothes. They are so helpful, I want to cry.
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The name is really bad, but I'm sure the show will be really bad, too. I can't wait.
If I were the producers of this show, I'd be worried about the real mafia coming to forcefully take that stupid name from them.
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Hopefully they will only come out at night to avoid any flare up of their cold sores.
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"god this is embarassing"
Sure is.
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I don't know if anyone caught today's TV Column in the post, but it talked about this and had some choice quotes from the studio execs who green-lighted this embarrassment. To wit:
"Katherine, Krista and Sophie are at the epicenter of Georgetown's young cultural scene."
"This absorbing series will pull the curtain back on the fragility of friendship among the beautiful, wealthy and powerful."
"Georgetown's young cultural scene?" "This Absorbing series?" I know everyone has a job to do but that PR hack can't possibly be serious.
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Nice roots, ladies. I like how you're not afraid to let your natural color grow out.
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Late Nite Valtrex Shots
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WTF is the one on the right wearing? I don't know how you got into my grandma's house, but she wants her drapes back, b***ch!
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"and later on helping those poor frat boys out of their sweaty clothes."
Sounds like that's going to end with a Late Night Shot or two
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Miss Kennedy has a blog that I've been reading before I heard about the show. There are actually some good listings on it. I look forward to seeing the show simply because it will be entertaining.
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I really don't understand all the animosity surrounding this.
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Oh wait, I just read the Post article. I get it.
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We hate them because blonds always have more fun.
They also have more VD.
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The only thing left to do is to get the ball rolling on seeing who can get some DCist cameos on the show. $100 gift certificate redeemable at any JunkPunchers location for the first to get on air drinking a triple shot on ice.
Not enough you say? How about a free bike to the first cyclist to get mowed down by one of these trustfund gamete recepticles
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Poundtown girl
Shes my Georgetown girl
You know Im in love
With an poundtown girl...
Poundtown girl
Shes been living in her white bread world
Anyone with a popped collar can
It's 3am and now shes looking for a poundtown man
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I think they meant "these three young self-absorbed friends who are in georgetown" rather then
"Katherine, Krista and Sophie are at the epicenter of Georgetown's young cultural scene."
"This absorbing series will pull the curtain back on the fragility of friendship among the beautiful, wealthy and powerful."
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Oh please. Any heterosexual male who says he wouldn't dip it in all three of those women is a lying sonofabitch. The mocking going on here only serves to mask the desperate dreams of a million high school dorks who in their deepest, darkest places still want to take Jenny Newberger under the bleachers to teach her advanced calculus.
Sincerely,
King of the high school nerds.
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The only thing left to do is to get the ball rolling on seeing who can get some DCist cameos on the show.
Some photo bombing is definitely in order. Problem is, these glossy reality show producers edit as furiously as Scorsese on speed. They'll just cover up the bombers with designer vodka/mineral water product placement.
http://www.photo-bombers.com/
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I wonder if they're associated with the "Diabetic Panhandling Conglomerate" that hangs out at the Archives Metro stop at night. If so, I'd be willing to donate my leftover pretzel from Elephant and Castle to them just the same. I don't discriminate.
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Ultimately this will work out distasterously for these girls. Otherwise, Lifetime wouldn't put it on the air, because no would watch. Everyone loves a trainwreck.
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finally a spin off of arrested development
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Oh please. Any heterosexual male who says he wouldn't dip it in all three of those women is a lying sonofabitch.
Looking at this picture, I would hit the one on the left. The one on the right is wearing a gut-hiding dress and the middle one looks like she'll hit the wall any day now.
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Mark my words. This show is going to do for Washington DC what Last Tango in Paris did for butter.
I'm talking "big." Gabby Hayes big.
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My dear, dear Nikolas Schiller.
Just. No.
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@whazzup-
"Oh please. Any heterosexual male who says he wouldn't dip it in all three of those women is a lying sonofabitch. The mocking going on here only serves to mask the desperate dreams of a million high school dorks who in their deepest, darkest places still want to take Jenny Newberger under the bleachers to teach her advanced calculus."
Just because a guy would "dip it in" has very little bearing on whether he actively wants to or not or whether he's bitter that he can't. Having contempt for someone doesn't kill a boner. Just one of the joys/curses of being male, y'know?
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Oh please. Any heterosexual male who says he wouldn't dip it in all three of those women is a lying sonofabitch.
I 'unno, man. At the risk of breaking my vow to refrain from critiquing women's desirability until such time as women stop using words like "ugly," "pug-ugly," "fugly," and "pug-fugly" when critiquing me in return, let me say there is such a thing as a personality so vile it can seep through the seams of even the most securely-zippered gimp mask.
When you say "all three," BTW, do you mean all three separately or at the same time?
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My dear, dear Nikolas Schiller.
I don't think he can hear you. He's busy making one of those nifty collages with candid photos of Blonde Charity Mafia stretch marks.
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It seems like everything on Kennedy's "blog" is an ad for something, press release and all.
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When stages 1-7 (out of 12) of my world domination index have been completed, Georgetown will be firebomed first.
Followed by non Chinese sections of Chinatown.
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Also, This makes me wish of the old days when seeing D.C on television meant seeing that one canned shot of the front of the white house, followed by some actor walking down a street that is CLEARLY in baltimore.
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This show will make Marion Barry in a hotel room, in his underwear, surrounded by coke and semen covered hookers look like the good old days of DC "cultural exports"
Thanks Lifetime! Because of you, the worst stereotypes of DC will forever more be cemented in the mind of mouth agape Americans. You will take 6 or 7 of the most obnoxious, xenophobic, evil little 1950's throwbacks and call them the "epicenter of Georgetown's young cultural scene." Well considering Georgetown has no young cultural scene, I guess that is somewhat accurate. Now if you said "epicenter of the VA and MD tourist shopping scene" thems would be fighting words.
I guess rather than be embarrassed, I should just see this as an opportunity to obtain pity from the people I know in other cities, I can just say “see what we have to deal with back home” and make them take me out to dinner.
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I guess Late Night Sluts, Sluts R' Us, DC Whores, and Sex in the City didn't make the final cut...
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that is pretty bad when someone on the Last Nights Sluts forum posts about something embarassing. I guess their fake Hermes bags, pumpkin skin glow and popped collars are something to be jealous of?
"Katherine, Krista and Sophie are at the epicenter of Georgetown's young cultural scene."
if they are at the epicenter then why havent any of us heard of them before this slutfest showed up on dcist?
can we please stop reading this crap? this isnt news, this is eyeball torture. i would rather be watching a heavyweight lifter shit himself on repeat than have to go through looking at those carpet-mongers on the front of dcist.
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Tonight on Fox. Coming up right after the premier of Fake Prada Yakuza, an encore presentation of America's Funniest Catastrophic Pants Failures.
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and i quote from KKs blog: "trust me, this is a biggie for me since I get dozens of kidney stones every year!"
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And monkeyerotica just made me spit energy drink out my nose. Ow.