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Baltimore, MD

October 3rd & 4th

Time: 10am - 5pm! 

Must be ages 21+

Must be a US Citizen 

Must be able to go away for a year! 

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Who’s to Blame for The Bachelorette’s Slut-Shaming?

I don't think that Nick meant to hit Andi below the belt by saying
why did you make love with me, if you were going to pick the other
guy two days later.  At that point in the game why would Andi sleep
with both of the men if she was going to pick Josh?  If I were Josh,
I would have had second thoughts about the relationship, if I found
out that my future wife slept with another man two days before our
engagement.

Fox News The Five cohost Bob Beckel called The Bachelorette’s
Andi Dorfman a “slut” on his show Tuesday. It’s a demeaning
and infuriating comment that caters to double standards for
women and men, but it’s also the kind that The Bachelorette 
thrives on.

Why did Beckel make the comment about Andi and not the dozens
of women on these shows that have come before her? For those of
you who don’t keep up on reality TV news, a sort of bombshell was
dropped on an otherwise dull season of The Bachelorette Monday:
the runner-up of this season, Nick Viall, broke an unspoken rule on
Monday night: he talked about sex.

Both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette walk a fine line between
 prudishness and salaciousness by implying sex without ever
explicitly discussing it. This tricky balance comes to a head in
the third-to-last episode of each season when that season’s
Bachelor or Bachelorette can opt into sharing the Fantasy Suite
with any or all of the three remaining contestants vying for his or
her heart. The two sleep in the same room (littered with candles and.
 rose petals, though apparently not condoms) overnight, and the
cameras stop filming. Sex is implied, but any footage or discussion
 of it is edited out.

Until Monday, on the show’s live after show. “If you weren’t in love
with me, I’m just not sure why, like, why you made love with me,
” Nick said to Andi on the show, mentioning that their night together
 was, to him, “fiance-type stuff.”

Andi responded that his question was “below the belt” but reassured
him that the feelings she had shared with him were real.

(N.B. Andi shared the Fantasy Suite with two of the remaining three
contestants. Most Bachelors and Bachelorettes will spend the night
 with all three.)

The immediate reaction on Twitter was that Nick was a crazy stalker
who just slut-shamed Andi as revenge. The secondary fallout, however,
has been pointed at Andi. Enter, Fox News.

“She’s a slut!” Bob Beckel said on his show. “I’m not kidding you.
She sleeps with someone else, and then doesn’t tell the guy about it.
This is what America’s come to, this crap.”

Panelist Andrea Tantaros responded with outrage: “Are you kidding
me right now? Excuse me, Bob. You probably sleep with a different
woman every night.”

“I’m not some Bachelor or Bachelorette,” he shot back.

“Those in glass boudoirs, Beckel, those in glass Boudoirs,” she replied.

Even if Nick didn’t intend to slut-shame Andi with his question,
others inevitably picked up on his very public revelation about
their reality TV relationship and did the deed for him.

And I honestly do believe Nick did not intend any harm. Nick’s
entire M.O. this season of The Bachelor has been being skeptical
of the process in the beginning but allowing himself to become
vulnerable enough to fall in love with Andi on his “journey.” The
show also teased that Nick was notoriously bad with breakups
(this one is no exception),  and he was visibly shaking during their
face-to-face conversation.  I would like to (perhaps optimistically)
believe that Nick was truly hurt and trying to be honest about his
 feelings when he asked Andi .that question, and simply disregarded.
the show’s concocted and unspoken rule that one does not talk
about sex.

And if Nick was a woman, this complaint would never be considered
some sort of insult to a male Andi. It wouldn’t reflect poorly on Andi
if she were a man who had had sex with both contestants.
We wouldn’t see complaints on Fox News.

However, Nick’s question has a problematic undertone: he is implying
that Andi ought not sleep with someone unless she is in love with him.

And even though this franchise has aired for 12 years under the same
 premise, we still don’t like to think about the fact that people are having
sex with multiple people on this show.

Correction: we don’t like to think about women having sex on the show.

After all, the men are allowed to be “players.” In the “Men Tell All”
episode before this year’s finale, it was revealed that one of the
contestants failed a lie detector test about the number of women
he has slept with, saying previously that he had slept with less
than 20. The audience laughed. When Nick asked his question,
jaws dropped.

It’s 2014, so Andi has the right—like any other Bachelor or
Bachelorette or human being—to have sex for a myriad of
 reasons besides love. Plus, the show is also constructed to make
her develop feelings for more than one man at a time, so it
shouldn’t be shocking that she kisses or sleeps with or does
whatever with multiple men.

Nick’s question actually reminds me of an incident from the last
 season of The Bachelor in which a contestant named Clare showed
up at Bachelor Juan Pablo’s room at 4 a.m. and invited him for
a swim in the ocean.  They swam—and then some. Again, the show
danced around the sex,
but it was heavily implied.

After the incident, Juan Pablo essentially slut-shamed Clare for having
sex with him—even though he consented at the time. “Maybe it wasn’t
right,” he told her on the show. “I have a daughter, I don’t want her to
see what happens, if she sees it.”

Clare (understandably) was mortified because she believed she was a
consenting adult having sex with another consenting adult. “I knew
when we were in the ocean, that it was a mutual feeling. If he didn’t
think it was right he shouldn’t have done it. I would have respected
that,” she said to the camera as she cried.

Again, the woman is blamed for seducing the man, for having sex,
for not waiting until she is in love. (Juan Pablo uses his daughter
and family as a weapon, contrasting Clare to a motherly figure
for his daughter and essentially calling her a slut.)

So if you’re a woman, it’s best not to enter the Bachelor universe.
Talk of sex is frowned upon, but inevitable. Though the show itself
doesn’t encourage slut-shaming—Juan Pablo did that all on
his own—clearly the audience wants to use the show as a platform
for slut-shaming, as happened with Nick this season. After 12 years,
tacit agreements about avoiding sex talk are breaking down. Will
 anyone try to  “pull a Nick” next season and bring up sex or even
use sex talk as a strategy? Will the producers embrace this brave
new world of candidness? If so, talking heads like Bob
Beckel will be waiting in the weeds, ready to cry “slut.”

Erin Tomasello Casting Director how to avoid a CASTING SCAM

Gordon Ramsay to End ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ Series in U.S. and U.K. AFTER 10 YEARS

The next batch of U.K. episodes of “Kitchen Nightmares” will be the last for

Gordon Ramsay, who announced the end of  the British and Yank editions 

of the show on his website Monday.  

“I’ve had a phenomenal 10 years making 123 episodes, 12 seasons, shot 

across 2 continents, watched by tens of millions of people and 

sold to over 150 countries. It’s been a blast but it’s time to call it a day,”.  

The cooking reality show premiered in the U.K. in 2004 and the U.S. rendition 

bowed on Fox in 2007, featuring Ramsay’s visits to struggling restaurants. 

The chef would spend one week using his expertise trying to help the owners 

rehabilitate the business.  

The format allowed Ramsay to show off his restaurateur bonafide as well as 

his attempts at family and couples counseling. Last year, the show hit its 

peak of pop culture buzz with an episode revolving around an Scottsdale, 

Ariz. eatery, Amy’s Baking Company, run by an over-the-top couple who 

produced plenty of Internet-friendly viral video moments. 

Ramsay credited “Kitchen Nightmares” for being “the show that really 

propelled my TV career.” The show has been a Friday night staple for Fox, 

with the most recent U.S. episodes airing in April and May. Fox has one 

more “Revisit” episode of “Kitchen Nightmares” in the can.But Fox still 

has plenty of Ramsay on its air, between the competition series “Hell’s 

Kitchen,” airing now, “Hotel Hell” (bowing July 21) and the “Master-chef” 

and “Master-chef Junior” franchises.

At present, Ramsay is filming four final episodes of the U.K. 

“Kitchen Nightmares” for Channel 4.

BOBBY'S OSCAR PICKS

The country is in an uproar over who will take home an Academy Award this year. This is the first time I can remember that the Academy did it right with whom they chose to honor. The 86th annual Academy Awards will air at 7 p.m. EST Sunday on ABC. The list of nine Best Picture nominees showcases how impressive the film industry was over the past 12 months. The artistry, subject matter, stories and performances that make up these hopefuls are some of the best ever captured on film. Best Picture nominees include “American Hustle,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Philomena,” “12 Years A Slave” and “The Wolf Of Wall Street.” “12 Years A Slave” illustrates the power of the human spirit. My pick would be 12 Years A Slave Up for Best Actress this year with Bullock are Amy Adams (“American Hustle”), Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine”), Judi Dench (“Philomena”) and Meryl Streep (“August: Osage County”). I’m going with Amy Adams for her role in American Hustle, Her body of work could warrant her the win, as Oscar voters tend to look beyond the nominated role when handing out Academy Awards. For Best Actor Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale (“American Hustle”), Bruce Dern (“Nebraska”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Wolf Of Wall Street”) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years A Slave”). Matthew McConaughey has Best Actor in the bag for “Dallas Buyers Club. Best Supporting Actress nominees, including Sally Hawkins (“Blue Jasmine”), Jennifer Lawrence (“American Hustle”), Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years A Slave”), Julia Roberts (“August: Osage County”) and June Squibb (“Nebraska”). Lupita Nyong’o will win. Supporting Actors are Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Phillips”), Bradley Cooper (“American Hustle”), Michael Fastbender (“12 Years A Slave”), Jonah Hill (“The Wolf Of Wall Street”) and Jared Leto (“Dallas Buyers Club”). Leto was amazing, and will win! WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN?

X-Factor BOOTED by FOX

It's official. Fox has decided to cancel The X Factor after three seasons. The network announced it's decision on February 7. Though the original X Factor has been a solid hit in the U.K. for years, the show never quite caught on when Simon Cowell tried to make the jump across the pond. All three seasons saw fairly low ratings, with this most recent season's numbers coming in particularly low. "I've had a fantastic time over the last 12 years, both on The X Factor and American Idol," Simon said in a statement. "And apart from being lucky enough to find some amazing talent on the shows, I have always had an incredible welcome from the American public (most of the time!)." Up next, the music mogul is heading back to his homeland. "Last year, for a number of reasons, I had to make a decision to return to the U.K. version of The X Factor in 2014. So for now, I'm back to the U.K. and I want to thank FOX for being an incredible partner and I also want to thank everybody who has supported my shows. America, I’ll see you soon!