Post by RS Davis on Mar 30, 2004 19:03:03 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Duane D. Freese Wrote:[/glow] Get ready America. You are going to see more of Morgan Spurlock than you ever desired. Even before Spurlock's movie, Super Size Me, has hit the streets on May 7, he appears to have morphed it into a reality television show on the cable channel FX.
Most film reviewers have summarized Super Size Me as Spurlock eating nothing but food from McDonald's for 30 days and gaining 27 pounds while raising his cholesterol and making himself sick. His new TV show, called 30 days, according to The New York Times, will follow a similar format of having people spending 30 days doing something they normally wouldn't do, such as a "Christian living as a Muslim, a wealthy person living in poverty or a prosecuting attorney spending 30 days in jail."
The show is bound to be entertaining. His experiment in self-indulgence was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival, where Spurlock won the director's award. It became a standing room only event at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., where I saw it. Indeed, Spurlock is fond of quoting George Bernard Shaw saying, "If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh or they'll kill you." So you can expect some laughs. But how much truth -- real reality -- can you expect on 30 Days based on Spurlock's performance as producer, director, author, star and guinea pig of Super Size Me?
Most film reviewers have summarized Super Size Me as Spurlock eating nothing but food from McDonald's for 30 days and gaining 27 pounds while raising his cholesterol and making himself sick. His new TV show, called 30 days, according to The New York Times, will follow a similar format of having people spending 30 days doing something they normally wouldn't do, such as a "Christian living as a Muslim, a wealthy person living in poverty or a prosecuting attorney spending 30 days in jail."
The show is bound to be entertaining. His experiment in self-indulgence was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival, where Spurlock won the director's award. It became a standing room only event at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., where I saw it. Indeed, Spurlock is fond of quoting George Bernard Shaw saying, "If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh or they'll kill you." So you can expect some laughs. But how much truth -- real reality -- can you expect on 30 Days based on Spurlock's performance as producer, director, author, star and guinea pig of Super Size Me?
- Rick
Read Grinding It Out : The Making Of Mcdonald's by McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.
