Evidently Ignorance is not Bliss
Evidently Ignorance is not Bliss by Roxanne McDonald
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The Cougars are pit against the Kittens in creating competitions for each other; one Kitten gets grabby; and one Cougar gets confused—or confuses. |
Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble; if I stay there will be double….
So should it be the theme song of at least a couple of contender’s for the tennis pro’s affections.
The older sentiments are along the lines of how younger women do not threaten, for, as one Cougar says, “21 or 25 doesn’t mean they’ve got it going on.”
The younger attitudes are along the lines of, well, ignorance and immunity. They talk as if they are never going to be fifteen or twenty years older, ever, and one of them is so horrified that she says one of the ladies is older than her mom! And then she winces.
There are a zillion shots of the puppy.
There is a conversation between the Marks. [What would have been cool would be to have the host Mark twenty years older than the bachelor Mark…hee.] Host Mark tells bachelor Mark that he noted how when Angela left them last time and when Lauren left and how different those two moments were. I don’t know. Something obscure.
Mark is readying to take one of each age group to lunch. He picks Kelly because she is way sexual (duh); and he picks Amanda because she is so genuine and always smiling. I am impressed by the disparity.
Mark and Kelly giggle across the room, and Amanda is so not okay with this happiness.
Kelly, however, is quite happy to milk the time she has with Mark, hoping to get the dessert end.
How Do You Know You are Naïve When You are Naïve?
How Do You Know You’re Naïve When You’re Naïve? by Roxanne McDonald
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Just curious. Though the kittens of “Age of Love” apparently could care less. |
The second installment of “Age of Love” inspired so many questions—such as the how do you know you’re in denial when you are in denial question. Kind of along the lines of why would a woman claim to be looking for an “intellectual challenge” and then pursue this particular bachelor…even after meeting him and sitting through the
crickets-louder- than-the- conversation-which-is-almost-nil scenes?
Maybe these newcomers, or even Mark, are on the wrong show? Maybe more their speed would be Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?
Anyway.
After we at home are forced to sit through a re-run of the first episode, the second brings on the babes…or the “younger choices,” as host Mark (oh, I am confused already with two Marks) points out in his pointing out the obvious way.
Lauren is first to meet Mark, the thus far good sport. She is 25 and says she always gets what she wants.
Amanda is 25 and been through a lot already. (Just wait till you’re 40 and look back on how mean you were about “old” women. Hahahahaha. I’d love to be there to kick your pills out of reach.) Her most original concern is to find a man who doesn’t play games. Oh, don’t make me get out the dictionary.
Mary is 24 and says she is fun-loving. She also, she confides, stutters when she is nervous. She doesn’t up the excitement value of the show, but does tell her fellows that she did NOT do a good JOB. What job? You said hello, he looked at your youthful boobs. Done.
Tessa is 23. She may not be the brightest light in the night, but she inspired this week’s title question, and, besides, SHE thinks she is all that: says she is funny, says she has “great thoughts” (like Schweitzer’s? Kierkegaard’s? Sartre’s?). She needs an intellectual challenge she explicitly states, implying, I guess, that she believes she might just very well find it in this guy. What’s that saying? Don’t take your bucket to an empty well?
Megan is 21. Jesus, we’re regressing quickly, here. But we are also made privy to the second one to inspire such queries: she says that people judge her for being young, and that she may be naïve, but in her mind she doesn’t know that. [pause]. Okay…, what? There are so many things wrong with this statement that I can barely get past the kind of discussion that feels compelled to say that her thinking is “in her mind”. Like one who is a great poet with great feelings deep inside. Megan needs to chat with Tessa.
Overwhelmed but Underwhelming Age of Love
Overwhelmed but Underwhelming “Age of Love” by Roxanne McDonald
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Overdone conceit, already been there “kittens”, and a less than articulate tennis pro bachelor make for big sighs…of the expressing boredom style. |
The bait and switch trick worked best, oh, four years ago, when “Average Joe” primed a beautiful bachelorette for meeting the man of her dreams and then introduced her to geeks and freaks instead. The featuring of an Australian sexpot was more successful in “Outback Jack”. And the
highlighted cattiness worked best, well, it didn’t ever really work for me…as I prefer not to listen to someone with God-given gifts flout and front.
But reality TV addict that I concede to be, I watched the first episode of “Age of Love”—albeit with eyes rolling and yawns blowing.
Mark is led with a question that elicits his assumptions about who the women will be…twenty-somethings, he imagines.
Age of Love Comes to NBC with a Roar and a Meow
Age of Love Comes to NBC with a Roar and a Meow by Roxanne McDonald
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New reality TV dating match-making show will feature the Cougars and the Kittens, all on the hunt for one tennis-playing prey. |
Sounds so animalistic, doesn’t it? That is the intended implied premise of the new “Age of Love”—reality TV show premiering Monday, July 18, 2007.
Thirteen women will try for the love of tennis star Mark Philippoussis. Though I have not yet heard the reason for the imbalance of numbers, six of the women will be the Kittens, the ones in their twenties, and seven will be the Cougars, the ones in their forties.
Apparently, the 30 year-old tennis pro will know their ages (will not have to guess like the “Gay, Straight, or Taken” or “Playing it Straight” participants had to). But for the skeptics who have decided Philippoussis (and I will soon get tired of
typing THAT name in here, so hope someone comes up with an animal totem replacement for the bachelor, soon—Pretty Bird? Monkey Boy?) will go straight for the barely legals, we have been told to think again.
The producers promise we will be as surprised as they were.
Philippoussis has said—in introductory sessions with the “Age of Love” team that he is not one to kiss every woman in the game.
And the women were initially not informed of the “twists” to the game.
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