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Summary: Jerry keeps it real.
Review: It was nice to see life at its funnest.
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Summary: NAKED TRUTH
Review: It's funny how some folks turn their faces in "despise" and critisize the "trailer junkies" with such an enthusiasm as IF they are much above and beyond. Such a hypocrisy and ignorance! Guess what, if one is lucky enough to manage their residence not in a trailer or inside of an urban ghetto, it doesn't mean that there are no people who carry their existence in both, economical and spiritual poverty, and guess further -- there are millions of them, and they DO have their subculture! Whether we like it or not, but this subculture DOES EXIST pretty nationwide, and here it is -- the naked truth exposed in this film. Welcome to the real America, which was always ignored by those like us -- so-called "middle class" and higher. Jerry Springer -- whatever his motives are -- is one of those who has enough courage to show us the reality, so this may trigger at least some of us: wake up you selfish ignorants, open your eyes and look around -- what is it happening to our culture?! What is it happening to our moral values, ethics, and interpersonal etiquette? What kind of America our descendants will face in the nearest future?
This DVD is outstanding, it clearly reflects the internal and external world of the majority -- don't be surprised, the low socio-economic classes, represented in this film, ARE the quantitative majority of our culture -- and here it is: the naked truth. Whether one likes it or not, whether one is in denial or not, but we are living in a ..., and the worst is that NO ONE CARES! -- for one reason or the other... Instead of turning our faces in disgust and critisizing these poor characters (and the act of such critisizm itself makes us no better than them), we should open our eyes wide and take a better look: what is it exactly within our society that is continuously cloning such a breed of population? Is there any solution besides just ignoring the huge pink elephant in the middle of your own home?Jerry Springer is great, no matter what one may think -- if we had no ..., he perhaps would run a show on spirituality, or he would run his own law firm, or perhaps he would keep himself busy in politics -- I'm sure, a bright and educated person like him would never be unemployed. Get this DVD, it's oustanding, the cast does outstanding job, the plot is humorous and entertaining -- there is no dobt that throughout the movie you'll never stop laughing -- but laughing perhaps through tears if you get the real message, the naked truth...
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Summary: it got boring but, it's Springer afterall
Review: It's not my idea of a tell all. Jerry got wordy at times and I didn't picture him the type to try and take strolls down memory lane. It was good to get to know the man behind the show, but at times, it was a snoozer.
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Summary: it got boring but, it's Springer afterall
Review: It's not my idea of a tell all. Jerry got wordy at times and I didn't picture him the type to try and take strolls down memory lane. It was good to get to know the man behind the show, but at times, it was a snoozer.
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Summary: An Entertaining Read
Review: Jerry Springer is the first to admit his television show is a circus. Still, there's something that millions of people are tuning in for - the outrageous topics and warrring guests on "The Jerry Springer Show". This book is a bit like watching an episode of the show: fun, but eventually you get overloaded with enough wacky information. It's also like the show in that you'll forget about it soon after reading it. Jerry lets us learn a little bit about his past and how he came to host such a bizarre 'chat' show. The writing style is very informal which makes this a quick, easy read. The perfect companion for a few free hours, but if you can't stand the show...stay well clear. There's nothing here to persuade you to like either Jerry or the show if you don't already.
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Summary: Good...well thought out...lots of humour
Review: Jerry Springers book gave a great insight into the world of talk shows. Use of humour and honesty was well thought out
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Summary: Springer... the most controversial talk show host and author
Review: Jerry! Jerry! The crowd chants wildly. However, one must look past this seemingly low-class, degrading form of entertainment. I found this work quite refreshing. As a scholar, I do not get the chance to fully appreciate the world around me. For this reason, I miss out on meeting many of my fellow men and women. I have lost touch with the average joe and I find this quite disheartening. However, Mr. Springer has given me the chance to connect with millions of Americans. These people real and their stories are not made up. Springer vividly portrays the joys, sorrows, and anguish that these brave men and women are facing. Perhaps the most touching was the story of the 400 pound man that left his wife for a 3 foot tall transvestite. I really feel that reading this book helps me appreciate the needs of others. I am forced to realize that all around me, people are suffering. I am spurred on to be a better person because of Mr. Springer and his friends. I too can chant "Jerry! Jerry!" with pride. Thank you Jerry.
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Summary: Talk about guilty pleasures...
Review: Let me state here and now: I loathe the "Jerry Springer" TV show. I think it's contemptible the way he exploits the vulnerabilities of low-income people desperate for their fifteen minutes of fame, encourages them to bare all their sordid secrets on nationwide TV, and then claims he's doing it all for a greater good. So I expected to loathe this movie when I caught it on late night TV recently, and instead ended up on the floor laughing myself halfway into a coma. So why would I like this film, trashy as it is, and hate the show? One reason is Springer's ability to spoof himself; he has the grace not to take himself too seriously; he knows exactly what a schockmeister he is, and he plays himself to the hilt in this movie. Another is that while on the TV we only see the people doing their bad thing on stage (and the audience egging them on with howls of "Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!"), in the film we see the hacks and flacks who help to prey on these people and get them to make themselves look their very worst in front of a national audience. And thirdly, the characters in the film are so over-the-top, so grotesquely stereotyped, we can safely laugh at them because they look so unreal. Here are Angel and Starletta, trailer trash and ghetto trash, winning the chance of a life time to appear on TV as the subjects of segments of "My traitor friends" and "You did WHAT with your stepdaddy?!" Angel is a 17 year old motel maid with a mother only 15 years her senior, sharing a trailer with mom's hubby, with whom Angel is having an affair, right under mom's nose. And don't think mom doesn't know what her skanky offspring is up to; when mom crashes the party and catches the two of them in the act, she goes right off and turns the tables with Angel's sort-of-fiance. Meanwhile, Starletta has caught her supposed best friend in bed with her no-good philandering boytoy Demond, amid a great deal of hair-pulling and name-calling. Angel, Starletta, and their entourages are all called to LA to appear on Jerry's show, but Angel's stepdad gets cold feet at the last minute, realizing some things are too private to be discussed on TV, and walks out. Not to worry; there's plenty of adventure on the side between Angel and the philandering Demond, who somehow gets inveighled into getting it on with Angel's mom as well. Turns out that there is action galore for the show even without the stepdad. When Starletta's two-timing girlfriends announce from the audience they caught Angel with Demond, Starletta rushes the stage (amid the usual howls of "Jerry") and goes for Angel literally tooth and nail; and when Angel's clueless boyfriend, who looks like the only word he is capable of is "Duh", turns out to have been awake at the switch after all and announces to nationwide TV that Angel is carrying her stepdaddy's baby (Mom didn't know THAT tidbit), all hell breaks loose. The show segments of the film look a lot like what's shown on TV, with the notable exception that the bleeped-out words are very much unbleeped (if profanity disturbs you, get some earplugs to watch this movie with), and the nudity isn't pixeled into abstraction. This is a film to watch if you're in the mood for some mindless diversion, which everybody needs from time to time. Just be warned that to watch this movie in VHS, you will have to scroll through 18 minutes of commercials to get to the start of the film. Get the DVD.
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Summary: You know what you're getting into here
Review: Okay folks, you KNOW you're not getting Shakespheare from this! All you Lawrence Olivier and Masterpiece Theater fans have gotta go elsewhere. This is down, dirty, lowgrade stuff that's just as bad as the real Jerry Springer show. I don't know why the League of the South or the NAACP haven't gotten after Jerry for the incredibly crude depictions of Blacks and poor Whites in this film and on his show (check out the airplane and elevator scenes in particular). Jerry's soliloquy in mock defense of the poor and ignorant contestants of his show must be heard to beleived. Sounds like an (unusually bad) Bill Clinton speech. But anyway, you know who's involved, so ya know what to expect. Comparable to the "Gong Show Movie" from 20 years earlier.
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Summary: Ringmaster: Proof that Perversion is Popular
Review: Recently (July 2002), TV GUIDE listed the 50 worst television shows of all time, and it probably comes as no surprise to readers of this review that THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW was the winner. This is not to say that RINGMASTER is the worst movie of all time, but in its moral sleaziness, it must surely rank in the top (bottom?) ten. What director Neil Abramson has done is to craft a movie that is a 90 minute behind the scenes peek at Springer's daily fare. Much of the same focus of the television series is the center of the movie as well. Neither the television show nor the movie has a plot worthy of the name. Instead Springer is the surprisingly passive host of a series of loosely connected vignettes that revolve around outrageous sexual situations that in their totality suggest that mainstream America is far more unsettled than it probably is. In RINGMASTER, Springer allows a mother-daughter combo to air their rivalry over sleeping with a man played by Michael Dudikoff, the action star who ought to have known better than to sign on the dotted line for this one. Although it is entirely possible that two attractive women could be in such a situation, one is left gasping at Springer's undoubtedly correct assumption that there is a huge market for such frank admissions. As these women in the movie and similar such daily strip and mock battle their significant others while the crowd is prompted to chant in unison to the action on stage, the real stars begin to emerge. Those in the studio audience and those watching on television see a vicarious ugliness in their lives that no amount of concluding serious-sounding final thoughts by Jerry can justify.
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