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...partner, how safe they feel, their closeness and their attachment." That view is based not on chemistry but on 1950s-style ideology. There are many ways young women today can pursue pleasure, and one of them is the classic one-night stand. Irene Dratver Glendale, U.S. Thank you for Joel Stein's story "Spicing It Up," on how couples can improve their sex lives by using sex toys or taking part in a threesome. It was nice to read an article that dealt bravely and honestly with such an exciting yet potentially hazardous subject. I think Stein...
...liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each--the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...
...both found insulting. Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise of the show. Then they set the show at VH1 instead of a magazine--and made Joel an incredibly unlikable jerk. It had morphed from my idea to an idea that kids who used to beat me up would have liked. After I showed an episode to my father, who gushes over everything I do, he delivered what was supposed to be a comforting speech about how many...
...last episode was finished more than a year ago, and VH1 has spent much of the time since then not putting the show on the air. Because of the Canadian financing, however, Hey Joel was on Canadian Bravo. I have seen the ratings, and I am tiny in Canada...
...blend of scripted and reality programming, they said, in which I would interview people and then we would write a sitcom around it. They were, in fact, pitching me back the idea I gave them five years ago. Deep inside, I'm afraid I'll say yes. --By Joel Stein...