Saturday, June 2, 2007
Campisi family sheds all dignity for E! “reality” show
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Of course, the show airs during the "family hour."
DALLAS — So last night, I was living the luxurious life of a media mogul, eating takeout appetizers and watching The Soup on E!. The next show coming on was a documentary of sorts about a wealthy Dallas family, examining the interpersonal relationships of its single paterfamilias and his daughters. Since it claimed to feature a Dallas family and since my dog was running around the living room with the remote control in her mouth, I decided to watch.
The show was Wildest Party Parents and featured Corky Campisi and his daughters and various girlfriends trapsing around town in a stretch hummer and a drunken stupor. The partying was punctuated with obviously scripted, but unconvincingly delivered soliloquies about family, love and happiness.
The show was filmed in Dallas and environs in December.
Response so far looks less than glowing:
Blogger Irene Done says: "as I watched, I actually felt 283 of my brain cells die. Maybe even a whole lobe, I'm not sure."
According to literary blogger Laurie Likes Books, "Anyone watching this half hour of awful television...what you saw does not represent the Dallas I know. "
According to me, "WTF?!?!?!!!"
I learned from the show that former Playboy Playmate Amber Campisi has really let herself go. And that no matter how rich and powerful I become (heh!) that I will never pole dance with my daughters.
For those who enjoy train wrecks, the show re-airs:
- Saturday, Jun 2, 11:30p
- Sunday, Jun 3, 2:30a
- Monday, Jun 4, 3:00a
- Wednesday, Jun 6, 8:30p
- Friday, Jun 8, 12:30a
As a public service, E! hasn't seen fit to make videos available online, but you can console yourself with the videos below. First, Tara Campisi's most recent birthday party. Second, Amber in hotter days.
Tara Campisi's b-day
Amber Campisi shills cars
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dpfa Anonymous
What a black eye for the great city of Dallas. I was ready to tell all my friends to watch until I saw what a bunch of idiots Campisis came off as. There are so many great families doing great things in Dallas...it is a shame that this trash is what is being seen.
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Billusa99 Anonymous
I really like that ad up top for their pork butt pizza.
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DC Anonymous
Mike, that sounds like one hell of a Friday night.
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Ternosky Anonymous
One word came to mind, 'boobs'. Unfortunately I wasn't thinking of anyone's chest at the time.
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DMBurrows Anonymous
Folks outside of the uh... 'metroplex' still see Dallas as way too uptight and insecure about itself... We need some inappropriate social scene shaking. So, I'm proud to have 'Amber's Ds' representing the 'big D'. I mean, LA has Paris (a grown woman who can't even form complete sentences - plus the parental Hiltons are a bore) ... but us? We have the Campisis. Score for Dallas!
-DM
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Billusa99 Anonymous
Wasn't this pork butt pizza photo the brilliant work of Pegasus staff?
If so, don't you think that FrontBurner should give you credit!?!
http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2007...
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eastside Anonymous
Marie Cole Campisi has passed. That explains all the limos outside the restaurant today.
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Rawlins Gilliland Verified
If you grew up in Dallas,... and I did.... you knew from the first time you ate at The Egyptian that the only two things you wanted from the Campisis was 1)The name of a hit man if you didn't have one and were so inclined 2) A steak Pizzaioli when you outgrew pizza. Then decades later there was that shot of Amber on a fake mink. So that makes three. As for Marie? RIP. Good woman, fine cook, great laugh.
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