TrivialPursuit said:

cloveringold85 said:

Those shows are not very accurate.

Let's be honest - they're not supposed to be. Frankly, I'm surprised they've never partnered with Star or National Inquirer to create programming.

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This is the world we live in now, unfortunately. If National Enquirer had a TV show, it would probably be the #1 rated show on television.

cloveringold85 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Let's be honest - they're not supposed to be. Frankly, I'm surprised they've never partnered with Star or National Inquirer to create programming.

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This is the world we live in now, unfortunately. If National Enquirer had a TV show, it would probably be the #1 rated show on television.

TMZ has that covered...

purplethunder3121 said:

cloveringold85 said:

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This is the world we live in now, unfortunately. If National Enquirer had a TV show, it would probably be the #1 rated show on television.

TMZ has that covered...

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Maybe they should merge as one?

purplethunder3121 said:

cloveringold85 said:

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This is the world we live in now, unfortunately. If National Enquirer had a TV show, it would probably be the #1 rated show on television.

TMZ has that covered...

Oh Lawd, can't REELZ just give it a break. I will wait for you guys to slam this shit. Already a white guy playing a soul brother like Prince - oh hell naw that shit is wrong - like getting Jim Parsons to play Little Richard.

Adorecream said:

Oh Lawd, can't REELZ just give it a break. I will wait for you guys to slam this shit. Already a white guy playing a soul brother like Prince - oh hell naw that shit is wrong - like getting Jim Parsons to play Little Richard.

Just glad I don't pay for that channel anymore. Reminds me when they used to get whites to paint up their facees to portray Native Americans! In these times, you would think they would know better! Someone at Reelz probably has watched "Purple Rain" too many times and thinks Princes's mom was something other than black. My gosh people...do your research first.

Seahorsie said:

Just glad I don't pay for that channel anymore. Reminds me when they used to get whites to paint up their facees to portray Native Americans! In these times, you would think they would know better! Someone at Reelz probably has watched "Purple Rain" too many times and thinks Princes's mom was something other than black. My gosh people...do your research first.

LOL Lately free TV has been showing a lot of westerns from the past and I cringe every time I see these white men dress up like Native Americans and speak broken English... Pitiful, emabarrassing, and offensive.

purplethunder3121 said:

Adorecream said:

Oh Lawd, can't REELZ just give it a break. I will wait for you guys to slam this shit. Already a white guy playing a soul brother like Prince - oh hell naw that shit is wrong - like getting Jim Parsons to play Little Richard.

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purplerabbithole said:

Reelz channel is so damn sleazy. A white dude is playing Prince in this show...not light skinned black or of color in another way (hispanic or arabic or persian)...a caucasion dude... Plus, the damn show looks super cheesy and simplistic.

WTF!! Glad I don't have this channel. It would be nice if they had a really good factual and informative documentary instead of this tabloid stuff.

I watched the flier for that shit and OMG, 4 or 5 nuckas come on, none I recognise, but two are obese black men about 50 and 2 white blondes and a Jewish looking guy who looks like Matt Fink saying shit like "For such a control freak, he let drugs control him" and some huge KFC eating MFer saying "And then I heard he had died of a DRUG overdose".

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It then showed a scene of a 1999/Purple Rain era Prince run into a room and rip the top off a bottle of vitamin pills and try to eat them. The comments were all people saying "Who'd a thunk it, he was a drug addict" - But the dude playing Prince looked Black and in one scene looks a bit like a young Little Richard lookalike.

Adorecream said:

I watched the flier for that shit and OMG, 4 or 5 nuckas come on, none I recognise, but two are obese black men about 50 and 2 white blondes and a Jewish looking guy who looks like Matt Fink saying shit like "For such a control freak, he let drugs control him" and some huge KFC eating MFer saying "And then I heard he had died of a DRUG overdose".

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It then showed a scene of a 1999/Purple Rain era Prince run into a room and rip the top off a bottle of vitamin pills and try to eat them. The comments were all people saying "Who'd a thunk it, he was a drug addict" - But the dude playing Prince looked Black and in one scene looks a bit like a young Little Richard lookalike.

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What the....???

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That's messed-up!!

the root of all evil. no way to stop bio crap stuff from coming out. Look at what they did to Whitney and Michael

Reelzchannel postet some pictures from the set. The name of the actor is Lance Williams, y'all can find him on FB.

Good grief, why didn't they just use the Prince impersonator they did before...

WhiteDude..........LMAO on that pic!!

SanDiegoFunkDaddy said:

the root of all evil. no way to stop bio crap stuff from coming out. Look at what they did to Whitney and Michael

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IKR? Well, that last movie of MJ was pretty good, I thought.

ThatWhiteDude said:

Reelzchannel postet some pictures from the set. The name of the actor is Lance Williams, y'all can find him on FB.

He could be Mixed after all Williams is a very common African American surname, Latino, Filipino or something else. He does not look Valkyrie/Aryan white.

Adorecream said:

ThatWhiteDude said:

Reelzchannel postet some pictures from the set. The name of the actor is Lance Williams, y'all can find him on FB.

He could be Mixed after all Williams is a very common African American surname, Latino, Filipino or something else. He does not look Valkyrie/Aryan white.

Yes that's why I posted it on here, because I was confused after I watched the trailer.

^^Ugh, that pic, no, just no. I don't think the lady looks anything like Vanity. The whole thing looks and sounds very cheesy!

It is the 27th here and at least midday 26th over there, has anyone watched this thing and what did they think of it. I know it is tabloid garbage but just curious y'all know.

The guy is kinda cute -- he looks to have some Indian/middle eastern/or maybe south pacific origins.

He is about my colouring definitely, although he is about 1000lbs lighter than me!

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Anyway I savaged some stupid bitch who asked if he was gay on the facebook post. A few fans have taken over and drowned out the haters a bit.

Adorecream said:

He is about my colouring definitely, although he is about 1000lbs lighter than me!

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Anyway I savaged some stupid bitch who asked if he was gay on the facebook post. A few fans have taken over and drowned out the haters a bit.

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What the hell is wrong with people?

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But, funny that you gave her a nice cup of STFU!!

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2045RadicalMattZ said:

If it's the thing that i saw last night (*there were two) the fat guy referred to was Michael Bland (i LOVE dudes era NPG drumming) and one of the gals was "Anna Fantastic" who said that she couldn't believe that Prince had any death wish or drug problem, he was adamant not to use stuff like that" The show stressed that bandmates could be fired for drinking/drugging infractions, Michael Bland complimented him (wasn't referenced except in exposition) The doctor surmised "based on his medical history" (*dubious claim - please someone here correct me if I'm wrong) no cause for suicide, talked of kornfeld being summoned for withdrawal like symptoms. Suggested that Prince went cold turkey and ingested tainted drugs with fentanyl because "if he had such a lengthy history of using meds to pick himself up as well as cocaine (due to half sister's quotes) to pick himself UP and counter stage fright [this was suggested as a reason why P became more media friendly and outgoing in the 90's cocaine]....then HE WOULDN'T HAVE CARELESSLY OVERDOSED. It was one of those "autopsy" shows that i watched. Suggested conclusion accidental overdose from bad pain medication It went over his conflicts: family, home, outcast, fame, marriage, Amir, miscarriage, Mayte "used my pills" quote from book, death of father, name change, death of mother, unsupported albums without tours, death of Vanity and finally return to stage as solo performer, Moline, death. It wasn't exactly slanderous, but built on multiple sources. More like a narrative. Don't know how this could have been enough for a show about his cause of death as due to Minnesota law, very little has been made public

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Sounds like everything we already know. A lot of people get into shows like that; so probably for the non-Prince viewer, they will eat that stuff up. Another rock star dead from drugs.

I fucking hate the Reelz Channel...The only network where the reporters grin and smile bubbly at the camera while explaining a celeb's death. Fuck that channel.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I fucking hate the Reelz Channel...The only network where the reporters grin and smile bubbly at the camera while explaining a celeb's death. Fuck that channel.

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Bunch of media mindless puppets -- sitting there, looking all pretty, while they tell the most horrid stories imaginable!

Seems like there wasn't much interest, judging by the comments.

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