SLY STEP You can accept Jerry Springer's reason for being a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" if you like. He says he wanted so very much to be able to dance with his daughter, Katie, during her wedding in December.
I am one of many who see his appearance on the dance show as a carefully planned promotion orchestrated with much skill to put the Jerry Springer name before the American people once more. Sleaze watchers of yesterday have fine memories of his hosting of one of TV's loosest and most bawdy TV "talk" shows.
Few people realize that all of this fal-de-ral of ballroom dancing is sheer rigged publicity - subtle and well done - is for the purpose of getting us ready to accept the Broadway Grand Opening of the latest musical production about his life and times! It was written in England, enlarged from some seaside skits about the man British newspapers advertised as the host of "America's leading TV show!"
In case you missed seeing the new stage show at the "National" in London, or at any of the road tour locations,it's on the way.
The Broadway opening was originally set for October but that seem so close. This Fall, anyway. The play - titled in England as "Jerry Springer The Opera" is a wild, incoherent display of materials designed to downgrade an obsolete garbage dump site. Those of you who read this column during the time of the English road showing will recall the smutty content not unlike his old TV shows. The staged appearances in most areas gathered two groups - one outside in the street protesting the performance.
Thus far, I have heard no mention of The forthcoming opening of "Jerry Springer The Opera". Springer and is partner Kym Johnson have been voted again and again by the three judges as being among the poorest dancers in the competition, but the nation 's television viewers, with exceptional devotion, constantly redeem them. No one seems to be wondering why this happens.
We are being "took". Wait just a bit longer and see if someone happens to mention, by pure chance of course, that the Broadway musical "Jerry Springer The Opera" will open plus the date and where.We are supposed to be surprised, too. So...we go along with the scheme. They have done better than I though they might. And, let in become a memory in your mind showing how easily we can be duped.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 10-4-06 [c424wds]
