Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.

'Out Of Gas'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Vortex - Aug 24, 2007 6:24:11 am PDT #1884 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Nah, the past plus size girls on ANTM have all been in the 10-14 category. Toccara and Robin are the ones that always sticks out in my mind. Of course, whether or not 12-14 is really plus size is debatable, but a lot of agencies classify any model size 8 and up as plus size, so there you go. From those pictures, I didn't see any girl that looked to be more than a size 8, which is just weak if that's the case.

not to mention that some of the girls may wear a size 10 or 12 because of height or broadness of shouldner, not actual body size.


meara - Aug 24, 2007 6:26:49 am PDT #1885 of 23273

Yeah--there are definitely thin girls who are a size 10 or 12 because they're six freakin' feet tall...and maybe have some boob!

But yes, word has it Sara is the plus size girl--not sure if it's how she's posed or what, but she doesn't look much larger than the others. I'm suddenly reminded of that girl in another season who was told she EITHER needed to lose or gain weight--she wasn't big enough for plus size but not small enough for regular model!

Has anyone been watching "A Model Life", Petra Nemcova's ANTM? It's been interesting because it's so much more realistic--they're actually trying to be models, it's not as much a competition or anything.


Toddson - Aug 24, 2007 6:26:54 am PDT #1886 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I remember in high school it aggravated me no end - my sister was just naturally skinny. 5'7" and wore a size five (back then about as small as they made clothes) but had to buy size nine jeans to get enough length.


Vortex - Aug 24, 2007 6:28:18 am PDT #1887 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yes, I buy my suit pants one or two sizes too big to get the length.


megan walker - Aug 24, 2007 10:40:13 am PDT #1888 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Here's something I would love to see (from the Shane Sparks interview at TWOP): [link]

Daniel: Do you have any ideas for next year's routines yet?

Sparks: Uh, no, but I know the fact that they let me get really creative with everything, I know I'm going to be more, like, movie-oriented and TV-oriented with some of my choreography.

Daniel: I got one for you.

Sparks: What?

Daniel: A routine based on the movie The Warriors....

Daniel: See, you're going to be thinking about it now. The Baseball Furies are going to be in there…I'm telling you…

Sparks: I just gotta find the song, and I gotta get the bottles to make the cling-cling-cling, you know what I mean? Only thing I have to worry about is I have to worry about copywritten stuff, but I could -- instead of saying "Warriors," I could say something else, you know what I mean? I gotta do things that won't get us in trouble, but that's a dope thought.


Jesse - Aug 24, 2007 2:31:52 pm PDT #1889 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's been an ANTM marathon on MTV all day, and I totally forgot how entertaining Jade and Danielle and the rest of them are! Sample fourfour recap for demonstration: [link] "Forget the gap, sucka, I'm goin' to Thailand!"


quester - Aug 24, 2007 7:38:26 pm PDT #1890 of 23273
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I'm watching the Project Runway marathon on Bravo. I missed it when it first aired, because I gave up my cable for awhile. I'm sooo happy to have Tim Gunn on my TV again! who cares about the designers!


Jesse - Aug 25, 2007 7:00:44 am PDT #1891 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jeez, they really are stretching out Top Chef as long as possible -- this week they're re-running the S1/S2 showdown.


sumi - Aug 25, 2007 7:54:46 am PDT #1892 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah, I don't get that. I'm so interested to see the next new episode -- I think that it's a 7 course meal on a ship - meaning that each chef cooks one course and only one chef at a time can be in the kitchen.

I'm guessing that from the title of the episode, the preview and the fact that there are 7 cheftestants left.


Lee - Aug 26, 2007 7:40:48 pm PDT #1893 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

BB: So Eric gets paid for each task he completes, and this week, his task is going to be kissing one of the women.

Yeah, that's appropriate.