Jeanine Noce, A & E Editor
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'Rends-View' - let's meet at 6 p.m
by Jennie Ellison
staff writer
A first date with someone is never
easy. Imagine a date being aired on
television with a panel of four
people evaluating your every move.
Well, believe it or not there is an
actual show that treats dating like
some kind of lab experiment. That
show is called "Rendez-View. -
On "Rendez-View," two total
strangers go on a date with the
hopes of finding true love. The
panel of experts includes two
people from the entertainment
world and the hosts, Greg Proops
and Ellen Ladowsky. The panel
stops the date at certain points and
comments on what it just saw.
Proops is known from his appear
ances on ABC's "Whose Line Is It
Anyway?" and was an announcer in
"Star Wars Episode 1: The Phan
tom Menace." Ladowsky is best
known for her journalism career,
with articles published in The New
York Times and The Washington
Post. Most recently, she co
authored the book, "How to Dump
a Guy: A Coward's Manual."
Proops is the more humorous of
the two due to his comedic back
ground, while Ladowsky provides
the more professional-sounding
opinions of the dates. Although
they seem like an unlikely pair, the
two come together perfectly to criti
cize and comment on the dates.
After watching two episodes of
"Rendez-View." it is easy to see
how other people can actually
evaluate a date for what it really is.
I was not sure that the people evalu
ating the date would be fair and not
ju mental, but some of the things
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bad for the people having to watch
the dates because I would not have
given that task to my worst enemy.
In the first episode, the lab-rat
'Dismissed'
by Heather Fleming
staff writer
I'm sure you've all heard of those
crazy dating shows on late night TV.
I'm sure you've even had those "late
night dating show parties" in your
dorm room and used it as a sorry ex
cuse to order a pizza. The MTV dat
ing show "Dismissed" is a favorite
among many teenagers today. It airs
almost daily on MTV at 11 p.m.
This half-hour, fun-filled dating
adventure usually begins with an in
troduction of the "dismissee." Then
it moves to the two dating contend
ers. A short introduction includes
their ages and occupations written
on the bottom of the screen. The
show usually consists of one male
and two females or one female and
two males fighting for the right to
date him/her. This show appeals to
all audiences no matter your age or
sex. I have seen episodes with three
men, or three women, battling for
the date.
I have never seen people be so
competitively vicious when it comes
to dating a guy or girl. You would
think that it would be only the girls
that got into the cat fights, but the
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"Rendez-View," which airs weeknights on the WB at 6 p.m. and
10 p.m.
couple, Darren and Dorene, were
complete opposites. Darren was
hypocritical throughout the entire
date and Dorene was just too criti
cal of Darren. They were both
former strippers and it seemed like
someone stripped the personalities
off them before the date. Dorene
turned out to be a little too "uppity"
for her own good, making com
ments that you would
stereotypically hear from a guy.
Dorene thought that guys who look
good had forgiving qualities.
"When there's nothing else to
hold on to, at least there's some
thing to look at," said Dorene. This
coming from a woman whose best
feature was her smile with a fetish
for men's butts.
Darren's highlight came after he
took Dorene surfing. Dorene told
him that she was upset that he hit
someone when he was surfing,
which to Darren was the most self
ish comment of the day. He was
very offended that she cared more
about other people's safety than the
person she was on a date with.
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guys are just as heartless to each
other.
The date starts off with one of the
contenders choosing where to go for
the first half of the date. The sec
ond half of the date depends on the
second contender. Each contestant
is allowed one "time out" card to
hand out whenever they please. This
card allows one person to be alone
with the sought-after "hottie" for 20
minutes. A lot can go on in these 20
minutes, since this can be the deter
mining factor in the "dismissal".
A date can consist of a variety of
activities. Anything goes. I have
seen episodes where the threesome
has gone bar hopping, boating,
horseback riding, archery shooting
and out to eat. And of course, the
night is not complete without a visit
to the nearest hot tub.
The man or lady of the night has
to "dismiss" one of the competitors
by the end of the date. The "dis
missed" person gets to say what they
thought about the whole situation at
the end of the show to the audience.
And the two who remain ride into
the sunset together and finish the
date themselves.
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"She [Dorene] is everything I
don't want," Darren told the cam
era after the show. At the end of
the date, they both agreed that they
would not go out with each other
again.
The commentators during this
date were right on target when dis
cussing the couple. One of the ce
lebrity guests was Tamala Jones
from the movies "Two Can Play
That Game" and "On the Line."
Jones felt that Dorene's person
ality screamed, "I will eat my own
young." After the date, she said they
both needed Jesus and thought that
Darren was a wimp.
The next show had a slightly hap
pier ending. Jason and Julie went
go-carting for the first part of their
date, where they both agreed that
long-distance relationships are not
good because both had bad past ex
periences with them. At that point,
Ladow sky said that it was good that
they both gave thought to what will
make relationships work. Proops,
on the other hand, commented that
he thought Julie needed make-up.
Comedy is seen on
'Blind Date'
by Jacob Boring
staff writer
"Blind Date" is a television series
which, in fact, sets people up on blind
dates. The date is caught on camera
and edited to fit about 12 minutes of
television time. Each show follows
two couples' dates. The first date is
the beginning of the show and the
second date is the ending. The idea
behind the show is to see if the people
on the blind date end up liking each
other and wanting to go on another
date.
"Blind Date" is shown on Fox
during weeknights at 11 p.m. and
again at 11:30 p.m. The two episodes
are different dates.
The people on the blind dates are
generally attractive, though the
personalities vary. A lot of what
makes the show interesting is
watching two people with very
different personalities interact.
Sometimes you see a really desperate
guy fail horribly with a girl. Other
times you see an overly egotistical girl
annoy a nice guy and then she ends
up wanting to see him again, but he
wants nothing to do with her.
There are guys with real game on
the show, and they demonstrate their
"player skills:" some of the guys seem
like dorks. Rarely are there cool
women on the show, but rather there
are a lot of extremely irritating ones.
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The two seemed to hit it off well,
considering that Jason always falls
in and out of love and Julie has
never been unfaithful to any of her
boyfriends. Julie did admit it is
hard for her to be friends with her
ex-boyfriends, so when it's over, it's
over. Their date was not as confron
tational as Darren and Dorene's. It
was a bit on the dry side, but dry
was good considering that they both
agreed that they would go out with
each other again.
The celebrity guests Aries Spears
from "Mad TV" and actress Krista
Allen took it easy on the couple.
Spears thought the couple seemed
to get along okay during the date
and on their second date it would
be easier for them to be themselves.
Allen seemed to be somewhere
else during the date. Proops asked
her what she thought the hardest
part of a relationship was.
"Hopefully, the man," Allen
joked.
The show is beneficial because it
tries to help people find a soul mate.
Although some of the comments
made by the panel lost the focus of
the actual date, they seemed appro
priate because at some points the
couples lost the focus of the date.
They can only comment on what
they have to go by.
If for some reason you do not
have a lot of studying to do during
the weeknights, you can find
"Rendez-View" on the WB channel
weeknights at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
But be warned, you never know
what you are going to hear or see,
so watch the show with an open
mind and also keep in mind the last
time you were on a first date.
I saw part of an episode where the girl
on the date had been a nude model in
"Hustler" magazine.
The show keeps a comic tone by
adding funny commentaries and
sound effects. The comments are
written or drawn on the screen. An
example: a drawing of a dotted line
connects a guy's line of vision with
his date's breasts or butt. Some times
the show puts a thought bubble above
a person's head and writes something
funny or sarcastic.
Often the show picks on the
personality flaws of the daters. I find
that the written and drawn comments
add flavor to the show and make it
much more entertaining than it would
be without the commentary.
I can also say that the show is on a
level where it can be appreciated by
adults, as well. People end up naked
sometimes, though it is always
blurred, as we don't live in Canada.
The added commentary is sometimes
crude and this could be one downfall
of the show. Some of the dates end
up with people getting lucky, though
they never show the dates in
bedrooms. If you want to check out
how the daters interact beyond their
blind date, you can go online to
blinddatetv.com.
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WB should eliminate
stupid Ilinii-Date'
by J. Benjamin Herwatic
staff writer
If you like stupid shows where a
stupid guy has the choice to go out
with any stupid girl of his choice, then
"Etimi-Date" is the stupid show for
you.
"Elimi-Date" is a show on the WB
network that places a contestant, guy
or girl, on a dream date with four other
(for the most part) lovely people of
the opposite sex. The contestant then
goes down the list, eliminating dates
until he or she finds the perfect match.
The point of the dates is to outflirt and
be as outgoing as possible to increase
the chance of winning.
The show is put together so well
that it even shows side interviews with
the contestant and the dates. They tell
their thoughts of the competition and
how they plan to seduce the main
goal. Dates often talk as much trash
on the other dates; you would be likely
to hear such words as airhead, self
ish, and pretty. Think along the lines
of "Real World" meets "Perfect
Love."
Settings have included restaurants,
amusement parks and swimming
pools. Cities across the country are
used such as Las Vegas, Dallas and
Miami. Exotic locations like Cancun
and Hawaii are also great spots for
"Elimi-Date" action. Chances are
also good that a pool and bikinis will
become an intricate plot point.
Don't change the
channel on 'Change of Heart
by Alec Styborski
staff writer
"Change of Heart," which airs on
WFXP Fox, presents itself with vi
cious vulgarity and raunchiness to
wards the human, contemporary con
dition of the male versus female rela
tionship. The show may depict itself
in a more than unreasonable manner,
and you may find yourself wanting to
change the channel. But hold it...don't
touch the channel, not yet anyway, be
cause no matter how ridiculous and
crude this show becomes, it will
"change your heart" and mind about
modern-day society.
After all, we find ourselves at the
closing stages of the year 2001, suf
fering from some of the most
catastrophic months in American his
tory. And on television we see r
ing but males and females, who
duct themselves in a relentless i
ion towards one another (as
swarm the channels of cable tei
sion) in order to determine wheth(
not they should remain together.
The couples come to difficult
clusions (in regards to their cui
love affairs) by experiencing
single life once again. The conf
ing couples, who equally and will
ingly break away from one an
other for one night, indulge them.
selves in a date with another hot
sexy, and single individual, wl
tries with all their heart to bre
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"Change of Heart." If the male
or female objects to their assigned
blind date, they will more than likely
decide to remain with their current
boyfriend or girlfriend. On this foul
show, this is how incompatible rela
tionships are solved.
The premise of this extremely dis
tasteful show is somewhat appalling,
because the couples come to realize
the true inner-self of their partners.
For example, last Friday, Ross and
Vicki, a troubled couple, appeared on
the show to resolve their problems.
Ross claimed that Vicki flirted too
much with other guys, and that his cat
was more willing to fulfill his sexual
desires than she is. Yes, that was what
he stated on this sex- driven show. Of
course, Vicki also had some qualms
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