7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show- Page 2
7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#25
Posted: 12/15/07 at 2:10pm
Me too, Erika.
And to that specifically, I very much agree with Namo's post. To see childhood innocence, hope and optimism stripped away from anyone is disturbing. Prematurely is even worse, but whenever it may happen to each of us... it's hard to understand and deal with.
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#26
Posted: 12/15/07 at 2:25pmWhat an incredibly sad story.
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#27
Posted: 12/15/07 at 3:27pmHow sad....Just like Karen Carpenter
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#28
Posted: 12/15/07 at 7:09pmhe has all the fake mugging of Jordan Sparks!
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#29
Posted: 12/16/07 at 10:25amWhy the hell would the Today show put this kid on the air?
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#30
Posted: 12/16/07 at 10:33amSome NBC talent coordinator with neither brains nor human insight thought he was "cute."
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#31
Posted: 12/16/07 at 11:22amThat poor boy. He thinks he's "it" now. Little does he know that he's only secured his spot as "bullied at school".
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#32
Posted: 12/16/07 at 11:26am
...if his parents are letting anywhere near a school.
Judging from his on-stage behavior, he doesn't look like he's ever seen another boy his age.
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#33
Posted: 12/16/07 at 12:27pmMaybe I was less-than-clear in my first post. If nothing else, Lil TonyG ("Call me Anthony") is the catalyst for many of us in this thread to externalize some of our internalized homophobia, which we're all programmed to have.
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#35
Posted: 12/16/07 at 1:15pm
Perhaps it was his song choice. Maybe if he'd sung this, he would have come off a bit better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ijwfRTv0o
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#36
Posted: 12/16/07 at 1:28pm
Namo, well in that case, your comment has no relevance to my reaction.
It wasn't his "gayness" that bothered me at all. In fact, it didn't even occur to me, until you posted your explanation.
It was the fear and craziness in his eyes, and the wind-up-toy performance that he gave. Gay or straight, it's disturbing that he would turn on the "adult Show Biz creature" like that.
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#36
Posted: 12/16/07 at 1:47pmmaybe he'll turn into William H Macy's character on Magnolia and this will be the pinnacle of his career!
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#37
Posted: 12/16/07 at 2:56pmHe performed on the Ellen show too. I think he is making the rounds to get discovered and try to become a big star.
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#38
Posted: 12/16/07 at 3:03pm
Namo--I don't at all object to his gayness. I object to his cheesy Vegas lounge singer aesthetic.
I agreed with you because when I was his age, I lip-synched to my parents' LP of "Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden," something I grew to feel much shame over.
So it isn't my internalized homophobia--it's my interna-liza'd vaudevilla-phobia.
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#39
Posted: 12/16/07 at 4:11pm
Vaudevilla-phobia is very difficult to get over.
Seek counselling.
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#40
Posted: 12/16/07 at 4:20pmQuick--before I shuffle-off-to-Buffalo again.
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#41
Posted: 12/16/07 at 5:32pm
Fear of turning into a lounge act...
...It's gotta be right up there with heights, small spaces and spiders.
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#42
Posted: 12/16/07 at 5:35pm
Now you've done it. Here I go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZC-SwApycM
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#43
Posted: 12/16/07 at 5:43pmDamn, Eddie sounds good. Whatever happened to him?
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re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#44
Posted: 12/16/07 at 8:19pmGeez, I hope he's home schooled....(he might not be safe there either!)
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#45
Posted: 12/16/07 at 8:27pmYeah, I saw him on Ellen. He does have a good voice but he was very precocious- in an annoying way. He also moved like a little girl. I also hate when child perfomers wear cute little outfits that are so choreographed to look cute- like his little golf hat. What 7 year old wears a hat like that?
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#46
Posted: 12/16/07 at 9:11pm
"He also moved like a little girl."
Exactly. findingnamo
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#47
Posted: 12/16/07 at 9:25pm
"Fear of turning into a lounge act...
...It's gotta be right up there with heights, small spaces and spiders"
Best12Bars, thank you so much for the laugh.
re: 7-Year-Old AnthonyG on the Today Show#48
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:24am
Here's proof positive, rosscoe(au)...
http://www.myspace.com/RICHARDCHEESE7
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