2005: A pretend space odyssey
 Having exhausted every possible indoor and outdoor method of making people as uncomfortable as possible while the world watches, reality-TV producers are heading to space. Well, sort of. Producers of a new British reality show are fooling nine civilians into thinking they’ve been launched into space. The producers of the show are in the process of selecting the (un)lucky nine, who will train with the Space Tourism Agency of Russia before heading to the great beyond—or actually, unbeknownst to them, into a model space shuttle from the Clint Eastwood movie Space Cowboys, parked at an unused airbase. Three actors will join the group to keep the charade going. Remember when The Truman Show seemed like a scarily quaint idea? Didn’t he crack up in the end?
—Posted by Eleftheria Parpis
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November 22, 2005 in Parpis | Permalink
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This reminds me of the movie, "Capricorn One" which basically revolved around the idea that the moon landings were faked. At the time, a writer named David Gerrold said this: "Those of us who stood in our backyards on quiet summer nights, gazing up at the stars and wondering, hoping ... the makers of Capricorn One have taken our dream girl and portrayed her as a prostitute.” I wonder what he'd think of this. Seriously, the very fact that the show's premise is obviously public knowledge, I'd be interested to know how the producers intend to keep this a secret from the show's nine participants. Then again, they're training in Russia, so...
Posted by: | Nov 22, 2005 9:51:16 AM
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