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Cooking loud rotisserie on reality programs leads to divorce
The Loud Rotisserie family
“That night, Pat spoke more openly than she ever had, in spiky, dark-humored spirals of revelation, telling her sister-in-law about Bill’s cheating, his affairs with “big-bosomed, fat-assed blond businesswomen,” describing her anxieties about her worth as a woman, her fears of the
future. “I’m too old for women’s lib but too young for that,” she joked
about staying in a sexless marriage. She talked about her children. Lance
was “keen,” she said, mournfully, but he “might have been keener if he thought his daddy really loved him, really cared about him.” She listed her strengths and her weaknesses: “I’m not very intelligent! I’m perhaps a bit
perceptive.”
In response, her sister-in-law gave her old-school advice on how to save
her marriage: Pat, she explained, had to learn to appreciate the stability her situation offered her. She needed to make Bill feel like a man. Alan
felt uncomfortable behind the camera; he found himself hoping that the
light would be too dim for the footage to be usable. “Also, there was the grinding of the rotisserie,” he said. “They kept going until finally we didn’t want to do it anymore.”
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Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
But their casseroles were more serene
“An American Family debuted on January 11, 1973. Ten million viewers
watched it, every Thursday night at 9 p.m. The Loud kids were among them, curled in their mom’s bed, eating Pat’s broccoli casseroles. After a year of denial, they understood they were in for it.
Before the show aired, Pat had screened a few episodes. She expressed no
objections, although she did tell James Day and Craig Gilbert that she
hated the credit sequence, with that cracked “FAMILY.” Still, she wrote gracious letters to the staff and to Gilbert, thanking them for the thoughtfulness of their portrayal. Then someone slipped her the WNET press packet—and her perspective changed, overnight.”
Excerpt From
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
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