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Bruce Willis has been lucky, lately, with mysterious little boys. In The Sixth Sense, he rescued Haley Joel Osment from his uncomfortable relationships with the undead. In the altogether more benign--but still rather charming--The Kid, it is the child (chubby, good-natured Spencer Breslin) who saves Willis...
...Joel, at least, seems just the kind of guy this wouldn't bother a bit. He's already back in Arkansas, checking out the Paula Joneses, smiling that oily smile and basking in his four or five minutes of fame. The breathless CBS web site even let him depart with some favorable spin, calling the vote "shocking" and discerning a political shift in tribal voting from weeding out the weak to "offing likely winners...
...perhaps Joel is crying on the inside. Perhaps he's curled up on the couch at home, eating chocolate ice cream straight out of the carton and torturing himself with a baleful inner monologue about democracy, popularity and the price you pay for chauvinism...
...maybe there should be an element of emotional risk when someone exposes himself, figuratively or literally, to the viewing public - for money. Maybe Joel, Ramona, B.B. and the rest deserve all the angst they get. Maybe losing, even in so capricious a forum as Reality TV, ought to be about more than getting a hot meal and a shower...
...Certainly, Joel's no Colleen...