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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Next, Queer Eye for Saddam

Interesting story in the CSMonitor about a new show on Iraqi television. In a laudable effort to both boost morale and provide some physical relief for the Iraqi people, the show is a Persian Gulf twist on the popular theme of a group of renovators coming into an average family's home and remodelling:
"Labor and Materials" is Iraq's answer to "Extreme Home Makeover" and the country's first reality TV show. In 15-minute episodes, broken windows are made whole again. Blasted walls slowly rise again. Fancy furniture and luxurious carpets appear without warning in the living rooms of poor families. Over six weeks, houses blasted by US bombs regenerate in a home-improvement show for a war-torn country.

"The main point isn't to rebuild the house, but to show the change in the psychology of the family during the rebuilding," says Ali Hanoon, the show's director. "The rebuilding has a psychological effect on the families - their memories, their lives, are in these walls."

Next up is Queer Eye for that Saddam Guy -- Carson will have a field day.

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