Don W wrote in news:ScJZh.2579
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The
people making their living selling mass media
quickly figured out that glamor attracted an
audience, and that no one was interested in the
realistic mundane parts of life.

I think that phenomenon is quite recent. Let's look back at some of the
old TV families.....

"The Honeymooners" hardly had enough money from Ralph's bus paycheck to
make the rent payments on that tenement apartment they lived in over the
sewer rat. These people were all very poor!

Desi and Lucy Ricardo - nice home, middle class, unglamourous life, even
more unglamourous neighbors. They started in an apartment over Fred and
Ethel, remember? Movie - "The Long, Long Trailer" was hardly glamourous.
My parents lived in one just like it, a "New Moon" brand...(c;

Ozzie and Harriet also lived a pretty middle-class existance. No
pretentious mansion, even though Ozzie was a big band leader and Harriet
a very successful singer....not to mention Ricky's Rock band. The TV
show was about middle-class Americans.

The Dick Van Dyke Show - again, very middle class TV comedy writers,
nothing glamourous about house or lifestyle.

later, there were many others, "Three's Company", a bit far fetched with
a young guy living with two supermodels and no sex for my dirty mind.
"Seinfeld", lived in a small apartment. "Cheers", hell they lived in the
bar!

The drug dealer lifestyle of the 90s and 2000s is where the glamour went
berserk....big cars, big whores, big boobs, big everything. Totally
unreality.

Larry
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