Rocker Tommy Lee becomes a Cornhusker for reality TV show



Associated Press
Oct. 9, 2004 12:00 AM

LINCOLN, Neb. - Multi-tattooed rocker Tommy Lee, a high school dropout, plunged into life as a University of Nebraska student Thursday - for reality TV.

Lee mingled with fellow Cornhuskers for an NBC show in which he'll take classes in chemistry, literature and the history of rock 'n' roll.

Flanked by production crews and cameras, Lee bought books and Nebraska apparel at the University Bookstore while a mass of onlookers strained for a glimpse. "It's like a big circus," student Paul Penke said. advertisement

On Monday, the Motley Crue drummer will even try out for the Nebraska marching band.

NBC spokeswoman Susan Ross said the network hopes to get six episodes worth of footage for a series set to air next summer. Lee will have a tutor and live off-campus.

Lee told the Lincoln Journal Star he was looking forward to "a little music, some education, some partying - the whole college experience." Asked why Lincoln was chosen, Lee responded: "Because it rules, man."

Not everyone is so pleased.

"Why Tommy Lee?" said Bob Moyer, executive director of the Family Violence Council.

Lee spent about four months in jail after pleading no contest to kicking his then-wife, Pamela Anderson, in February 1998. And though school officials have said the show is a way for potential students to learn about the university, using Lee to get that message out is causing some trepidation even among administrators.

"I hope that turns out to be the right judgment," Chancellor Harvey Perlman wrote in an e-mail to faculty Thursday. "I am tempted to say something like, 'If it doesn't work you can vote me off the island,' but I've already used that line. All I can say is join me in keeping your fingers crossed."

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Show em what you got Tommy!

Hahahahahaha! I knew you would post here.

I gotta get over to Nebraska...Tommy may need some dorm room tutoring!

Oh man, poor Tommy!! There's not a damn thing in Lincoln!!!

JediMaster said:

no kidding. i can't figure out why he chose nebraska . . . everyone else wants to get out of here!



i'm only an hour and a half away . . . think it would be worth the trip?

he tried Dj'n and that went down the shitter..

Huck the Fuskers!

fantasyislander said:

I escaped Nebraska!! I cannot imagine anyone VOLUNTARILY choosing to move there. ESPECIALLY a stink hole like Lincoln!!! I mean, at least Omaha is a civilized place, even if its so damned cold that its pretty obvious that God did not intend for people to live there!!!

ReturnOfDOOK said:

hey, wait a minute . . .


i'm a husker!

fantasyislander said:

Of course it would be worth the trip! It's mother fuckin' Tommy Lee! Maybe we can compare lip tattoos!!

fantasyislander said:

Oops! Correction: Huck some Fuskers, but not all?

ReturnOfDOOK said:

I wonder why you say that!!!

sag10 said:

Cause fantasyislander is cool like that.... she get's an exemption from my "huck the fuskers" comment!

ReturnOfDOOK said:

why thank you!! you're my new best friend!!

huck the fuskers! (except me . . . and my family . . . and my friends . . . wait, this isn't going to work, is it? )


sadly, i do live in nebraska, and therefore i am a husker. even tho i don't really watch football that much . . .

I always imagine Nebraska as being peaceful and tranquil.

DiamondGirl said:

it's not too bad . . . but now that tommy's here . . . well, i bet it goes down hill fast.


(by the way, for all the tommy lovers out there, that was a joke. )

it is always nice to see a patient doing well.

I always considered Nebraska to be an extension of Iowa.

CarrieLee said:

that's it, Carrie! go get em Tommy

JediMaster said:

I am kind of wondering why he chose that dull college. He should have went to Kent State where there is more action. Anyway, I may have to check out this show because it may be some interesting shit.
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Kent State as in Kent State University that is in Ohio? Just wondering, since I live in Ohio.

did u know Motley Crue are reforming, and plan to tour next year

damnedifido said:

WHAT!!!!! OMG I hope they're touring when I'm over there I love me some 'crue!!!

Natisse2 said:

they will be here in uk next year sometime and obviously the states. so ur sorted lady,,xx

damnedifido said:

OMG they're coming to the UK too? double

damnedifido said:

OMG they're coming to the UK too? double

psychodelicide said:

KSU in Ohio.

JediMaster said:

well ya know, it's just temporarily.

Heiress said:

True, but I was "temporarily" there for six friggin' years! It was enough to convince me that God truly only intended for cows and corn to live there.