fame fame fame dammit

"fame costs and right here's where you start paying.  in sweat [and however much for the fame season 1 dvd that she knows who is buying me for my b-day]".  loved this show and the movie, but the show was in my house every week.  coco, doris, leroy, bruno, danny, julie, miss grant, mr. shorofsky.  did i mention doris?  cause i loved doris...and coco...and leroy...and...well you get it. obsessed. because i didn't dance or sing when others could see or hear.  but i did both all the time because so often no one could see or hear me because it was safer to live that way.

fame meant 20somethings playing teen kids so talented they were bursting with life and dreams but also the kid next to them was maybe a little more talented so the role might go to them instead of you so even with big talent there are big disappointments.  and still fun.  still spontaneous numbers in the cafeteria and on the street.  still everyday life at the high school of the performing arts.  and drama that worked.  actors playing characters that were a million times more real than anything american idol spits out weekly.

this show was must see tv on thursdays before cosby.  nbc gave up on it, but it thrived in syndication because it was so popular in europe the demand for new shows was intense.  fans here wouldn't let it go either.  personally i'm all about the first 2 seasons, maybe up through season 3 because doris left after that and coco was already long gone and if you don't know what i'm talking about that's okay because just pretend you know that in 1982 variety shows were kinda dead on tv, unlike the '70s where they had thrived ("sonny & cher", "sonny", "cher", "sonny & sonny", "cher & cher", "cher & a talking chimp").  variety was dead and fame the tv show came along and was a natural musical where songs and dancing happened because these were kids learning to sing and dance.  where acting happened because these were kids learning to feel and breathe and move and push.

that's enough from me on this, though i bet i blog on it again because it's fame and i've shut up about it for years and now i don't ever want to because it mattered so damn much. fameforever.com is the technical authority.  i hope they don't hate me but i took 3 of their streaming .rams and mystically converted them to .ra so you can download them from me vs having to stream.  if some powergeek out there wants to e-mail me how to convert .ra to .mp3 free on a mac, i'll do it, but until then dust off realplayer and love these up.

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Comments

[Ridwah]

Holy crap I loved this show! I'll admit, when I went to college to major in music, a little part of me was hoping that it'd be like being on Fame. I was sorely mistaken.

[Cooper]

Fame! I'm gonna live for eevaaah..!

:)