On 7 Jun 2005 10:22:54 -0700, "Sport Pilot" wrote:

You do know that the drama in these shows are often not real don't you?

Of course. I watch it to see how things can be fabricated and am
always a bit put off by any grandstanding that occurs. That's bound
to happen when you get a group of individuals with largish ego's and
follow them around with a camera.

It's very likely that the producers do a pep talk with everyone so
that they understand that crazyness and merriment is part of the show
so let's see some.

Corky Scott

PS, if you ever wondered if it's possible to carry on normally with a
camera in your face, trust me, it's impossible to ignor. One of
Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" show's was shot in the Vermont town
where I live because we happen to have what is considered to be a very
picturesque town meeting hall. We gather for town meeting every year,
first Tuesday in March. The folks meet to vote the town and school
budgets etc etc. There were roving cameramen with BRIGHT floodlights
walking around filming the various people of the town. Word had
gotten out ahead of time of course, and the place was jammed as it's
never been before or since. My wife and I were as curious as anyone
and also relatively new to the town so we wanted to participate.

We tried to avoid the cameras, not encourage them by looking at them
so to speak, and in general watched as various people argued in front
of the camera's over such hugely mundane questions as "whether the
town should leave it's street lights on at night or turn them off to
save energy." There may be a total of 5 street lights in both
villages...

During the break for lunch, a camera person wandered down the aisle
and stopped by my wife and I while we were eating our lunch. The
lunches were something the town pulls together, it's a showcase of
local cooking talent so it's eagerly awaited each year and probably
the prime reason people go to the meetings.

There we sat transfixed by the brighter than bright floodlights from
this camera guy while he filmed us scooping up baked beans on our
plastic forks and tried to get them into our mouth's without shaking
them off.

"That wasn't so bad, was it?" the guy asked as he shut off the lights
and turned away for other likely subjects. Actually, we kinda thought
it was.