Eric Roberts Should Play 'The Professor' In a Gilligan's Island Remake, a photo by zennie62 on Flickr.
Eric Roberts should play "The Professor " on a remake of Gilligan's Island. But before we turn to Roberts, let's recap.
Eager to make a first-time day trip to an event, this blogger went to the Reality Rocks Expo in Los Angeles on Saturday. Some of the online coverage was presented in a previous blog post, but it doesn't represent all of the Twitter Tweets and Flickr photos, and more videos.
In short, the trip was a success, as about three-quarters of the content is already up and out via Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Friend Feed, and this blog, with more blog posts to come this week.
Reality Rocks is a first-of-its-kind convention centered entirely around reality TV. There's a whole universe of people, companies, and consultants that have grown around this entertainment concept, and they even have a "top list" of people, as collected by The Hollywood Reporter.
And who's at the top? Ryan Seacreast. And while he was not at the Reality Rocks Expo (held at the LA Convention Center), his sprit was felt in the number of entertainment entrepreneurs trying to pitch their show ideas, or themselves for casting opportunities.
There were panels on everything from how to pitch your show to how to deal with fame. Indeed, that last part's a problem that American Idol's Page Miles, a "Season 9" sensation, is dealing with today.
She said that the fact she was famous hit her after her first appearance, when she was at the airport and "all of these people were" looking at her. But it's also gone beyond just looking in some cases, enough for her to take a lot of time talking about it.
Comfortable with their fame are Dallas Maverick's Owner Mark Cuban and FUBU Founder and CEO, Daymond John, both stars of ABC's reality TV show Shark Tank.
With Sam Rubin of Entertainment Tonight, they held a business pitch panel, along the lines their hit show. The audience consisted mostly of people who actually came to present their business ideas and products. One group, Karen and her daughter Tomi, has an already-made infant-carrying product that, while it did not score a deal, was praised by Mark Cuban (and that was captured on video to come Wednesday).
But the funniest segment was with a man, Carl Tunina, who claimed he has a perfume that was the actual scent of Kathryn Hepburn. He also said he had the rights to the DNA of Abraham Lincoln, Michael Jackson, and hundreds of celebrties.
It was hilarious. Here's the video:
Later, on Twitter, John and others who were at the Reality Rocks segment, retweeted my tweet about the video, explaining that it was really a comedy skit:
TheSharkDaymond Daymond John
THIS PITCH WAS COMEDY!! RT @Qubits_Toy: RT @zennie62: @mcuban At Reality Rocks LA youtube.com/watch?v=97FRhp… via @youtube #realityrocks @samontv
As to Eric Roberts, he wasn't going to do the interview, because he didn't think the Flip Video Camera could make a good clip. Seriously. I had to coax him into it; then when he saw the high def video, he was sold.
More from my Reality Rocks LA trip later today. On to Ad Tech SF.