Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Crying A Little Inside: Live Like You're Dying
Posted by Sharon on Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider has the scoop on a new CBS reality show Survivor's Jeff Probst has created called Live Like You're Dying:
The show, Live Like You're Dying, will feature a person who has been given a terminal diagnosis with a finite amount of time to live and "take them on the last adventure of their life," according to Probst. That adventure will include reunions with lost friends or formerly feuding family members, a "legacy moment" that will ensure their name carries on forever, and living out a personal dream. "It could be playing guitar with Eric Clapton or jumping out of a plane into a volcano," Probst explained to EW.com. "Whatever it is that you're still desiring to do in your life — we want to make it happen.
Does anyone else remember those Lurlene McDaniel
Y.A. novels? Because I was an incredibly morbid,
freakish girl-child, I read most of them. McDaniel wrote one
particularly wrenching series, "One Last Wish," about young people who
all had terminal illnesses -- cancer, usually -- and were given an
anonymous donation of money to live out one last Big Dream. (There was
also generally a whirlwind, star-crossed romance, sigh.) These books
made me unspeakably morose, and yet, I guzzled all of them like the
melancholia crack addict I am, book after book after book. Probst's
show will likely attempt to capitalize on the over-stimulated emotions
of people like me.
Live Like You're Dying sounds like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
crossed with the Make A Wish Foundation crossed with those Sunday
afternoon St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital infomercials
featuring Marlo Thomas and John Goodman. Which basically means I have
no choice but to watch this show and will probably need a tear duct
transplant after it runs its course.
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