Before Julia Roberts was a prostitute for a rich guy in Pretty Woman, she was an assistant to one on Miami Vice. How pretty was the 20-year-old woman in that 1988 episode.
Tomorrow on Max, get ready to watch the three-part documentary, How to Create a Sex Scandal, about a sex scandal that never happened.
Margie and John Cantrell took in several foster children throughout their marriage and raised them as their own. The couple started out in California but moved to the small town of Mineola, Texas.
In 2004, that small town was about to be rocked because they found out there was a Swinger’s Club operating in their area. And that was not the worst of what they were going to discover.
The Cantrells took in three siblings whose parents were deemed unfit to raise them. Shortly after they moved in, the Cantrells noticed they were acting odd. So they asked them what was going on.
The children told their foster parents they were being used as sex toys in the Swinger’s Club. So Margie called the authorities, and they investigated the crime known as Kindergarten Sex.
The three children told their story to the Texas Rangers, and their case went to court. By the end of their investigation, seven people, including the kids’ parents, were tried and convicted of the crime.
And that is where the first episode’s story ends. In the next episode, their case seems to unravel, and one of the newspapers is given a tip that this might not have happened at all.
The more the reporter looks into it, the more it seems that their story is made up. But why? That is when we find out that Margie is not as sweet as she said she was in part 1.
She was mentally and physically abusing the children. She brainwashed them to believe that this really happened to them. But it didn’t.
What happens when the Cantrells’ abuse is found out? That is what we find out in the final episode.
They say the truth is stranger than fiction, and this true story is definitely that. If you didn’t see the words coming out of the people involved, you would never believe that a whole town would believe the lies. But they did. And the lack of repercussions will surprise you.
You will hear from the three kids in the case, the Cantrells, the people they accused, the journalists who covered the case, and other children who accused the Cantrells of abuse.
Each episode has its own theme and tells the story as it took place. The first episode deals with scandal, the second shows how the case fell apart, and finally, the consequences for everything that happened in Mineola.
What I liked most about this three-part series is that it didn’t repeat itself every five minutes. Instead, they let the shocking tale play out and did not tell me repeatedly what I watched.
In fact, because it flows so naturally, you feel like you are watching a newscast that is telling the story in real time. And that is why I binged this without stopping. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next.
How to Create a Sex Scandal will keep you on the edge of your seat because you go from feeling sorry for them, to questioning what happened to those children, to I can’t believe it didn’t happen.
So if you want to watch something that seems too crazy to be true, then you are going to be hooked on this. It is the best docuseries I have seen in a long time.
Today on The View, Sunny Hostin got an up-close view of Whoopi Goldberg’s behind.
What? The five women were discussing what is considered cheating at a Bachelorette party because 70% of people polled in a survey said that they had done that during the pre-wedding party.
One of the things the hosts questioned is, are lap dances cheating. Hostin then admitted she never saw one done, so she couldn’t answer if it were cheating.
So, Whoopi gave her a lap dance. It wasn’t the most erotic one. But it was erotic enough for Hostin to declare that it is cheating.
Do you think it is cheating? I don’t think so. But I have been going to strip clubs since I was 18. And I have a lax view of what cheating is.
Big Brother fans were hoping that Big Brother would be back earlier this year because of the Writers Strike. But, instead, it is going to be back later because of it and the other potential strikes by the DGA and SAG.
So when will it return to our televisions? Unfortunately, you are going to have to wait until August 2nd to see the 25th edition. Can you believe we have 25 of those?
That is not the only reality show that is coming to CBS this summer. Secret Celebrity Renovation is back on July 28th. The musical game show Superfan will debut on August 9th. And finally, The Challenge USA premieres the next day.
To read about CBS’s Summer offerings, then click here!
Samuel L. Jackson has done a lot of crazy things in movies throughout his 50-year career. Today on The Jennifer Hudson Show, she asked him what was the craziest.
Do you think it was from one of his Quentin Tarantino movies? Or how about one of the many, many times he has played Nick Fury? If you thought it was one of those films, you would be wrong. It was actually 1996’s The Long Kiss Goodnight.
In that movie, he and Geena Davis are escaping a shootout in a train station as a grenade is going off. Davis uses her machine gun to shoot out the window so that they can jump down into the ice below. Then, as they freefalling to the ground, she shoots at the ice to break it. And then we see them hit the ice and come up for air.
You would think that director Renny Harlin would have used stunt doubles for his wife and Jackson, but he didn’t. So the two actors were submerged in the freezing cold water to make that scene look realistic.
So they would have to go down into the frozen water, stay there for 5 seconds, come up, run across the ice, and wait in a hot tub so the director could see how it looked.
After the first try, Harlin wasn’t happy. So they did it four more times. By the fifth time, EMS was waiting on standby. And that was a good thing because Jackson woke up in his trailer covered in one of those silver warming blankets after the fifth take.
So you would think after all of that, he would have hated that film. But he loves it so much that it is actually one of his favorites.
It was definitely memorable for him. To see that unforgettable scene, then click here!
