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Anna Nicole Smith and the Golden Age of Trash Celebrity Reality TV
from #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show · #247
1 min
Tim and Yannis reminisce about Anna Nicole Smith's E! show, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, and Celebrity Rehab putting real drug addicts on camera for entertainment.
- Tim recalls Anna Nicole Smith from Naked Gun 33 1/3 and Leslie Nielsen comedies made before films became about imperialism.
- The Anna Nicole Show on E presented her as a complete basket case mess.
- Reality TV in that era — Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's show, Celebrity Rehab with Jeff Conaway — just pointed cameras at active drug addicts with no real help.
- Tim imagines film school graduates having to give drug-addicted celebrities water just to film scenes of them screaming at their daughters.
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