'Jerry Springer Show' Is a Rosetta Stone for Our Times

"...the news. Surfing during commercials I ran across The Jerry Springer Show. I don't know who to blame for..."

May 19, 2008 Postmarks

The AggreGAYtor: March 25

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Biden speaks frankly, Britain stocks up on rice, and Jerry Springer gets off the trannywagon, as your AggreGAYtor acknowledges..."

March 25, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Ringmaster

"...Directed by: Neil Abramson. Starring: Jerry Springer, Jaime Pressly, William McNamara, Molly Hagan, Wendy Raquel..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Break 'Em Off Some

"...they were cutting all the fights out of The Jerry Springer Show (10am, FOX-7/KTBC; 1am, KVC-13). At first I..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Column by Christopher Gray

Transformations

A Conversation with the three directors of the SXSW premiere Cruel & Unusual

"...Then at the other end of the spectrum is Jerry Springer. The [people portrayed on Springer] tend to be..."

March 10, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Skies Partly Cloudy

Two years down the road, liberal network still struggles to establish itself

"...of all the liberals who can talk without stuttering, Jerry Springer, icon of TV sleaze, to host a morning..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Postmarks

Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.

"...to this the stigma you and the likes of Jerry Springer viciously espouse...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Column

Reeling in '98

The Austin Chronicle Top Nine Films of 1998

"...the theatre and pay seven bucks to buy the Springer cow when you can stay home on the couch..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Wrapped and Ready

"...ex-spy named Brill (Hackman). Director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer can be always counted on to deliver some..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

"...shots. "He had the total sound," marveled R&B producer Jerry Wexler. "We were the students, he was the teacher...."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.

"...exhausted by Sandler’s rubbery-face-and-funny-voices schtick, not to mention his Jerry Springer-ready battles of the sexes with love interest Russell,..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Martin Lawrence is remarkably subdued in this story about a successful professional who returns home to rural Georgia and discovers that his family still makes him feel like a petulant teenager.

"...plays Jenkins, a hugely successful daytime-TV “doctor” with a Jerry Springer-like talk show who returns home to rural Georgia..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Radical Inclusion: A Morality Tale

Halfway through the 365 days of 365 Days/365 Plays, Suzan-Lori Parks' dramatic project has everyone making theatre and in new ways

"...presented back to back in English and Spanish. The Jerry Springer Greek tragedy – since it was Greek tragedy..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

TV Eye

Life ain't the only thing that's like a box of chocolates -- talk shows are, too!

"...talk shows of Ricki Lake, Sally Jessy Raphael, or Jerry Springer were chocolates, they'd be the kind you took..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Other People's Trash

Belinda Acosta argues why your trash TV is no better than her trash TV.

"...this girl act a fool on RW, when on Jerry Springer she would be called trailer trash? Because her..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

After a Fashion

Austin style is rocking into spring as local fashion steps out -- again -- at the Club DeVille Spring Fashion Extravaganza.

"...of the trailer-park! With models obviously courtesy of the Jerry Springer show, LD showed everything from biker babes and..."

May 11, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Rollercoaster

"...day, a lot of dirty laundry is aired, more Jerry Springer than afterschool special: confused sexuality, promiscuity, molestation, drug..."

March 23, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

At the SXSW Interactive 2000 Festival, columnist Belinda Acosta takes a peek at the television of the future; also, director Kevin Smith fumes over the television version of his indie hit Clerks, and the Emmys announce a change in voting procedure.

"...the channels they want." Hey, if there were a Jerry Springer channel, and I had the opportunity to banish..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Hoping to cash in on the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire craze, networks are developing game shows with increasingly ridiculous premises.

"...(Fox): Speaking of weird but true, none other than Jerry Springer has reportedly been tapped to host this show..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

"...non-evil son Scott Evil (who turns up on a Jerry Springer Show entitled “My Dad Is Evil and Wants..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Day of the Beast

De la Iglesia builds this original horror film around a priest who belives the Antichrist will be born on Christmas Day. The director's unique visions blend ultra-violence and satiric touches make this a stunning example of his work screening in this four-part Alamo series.

"...occult-oriented reality-based television program called The Dark Side (think Jerry Springer with a more astrological bent). Through the course..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...that. They're being exploited by these talk shows like Jerry Springer and stuff. They'll reveal anything about themselves or..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Postmarks

Politics & music & the politics of music.

"...Attn: Jerry Wexler..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column

Troilus and Cressida

The iron belly muses production of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida sometimes seems to have little to do with Shakespeare's text, and that's a problem, but director Sharon Sparlin does a fascinating job of "updating" the play, and when it works, it works wonders.

"...events of the play are being taped by a Jerry Springer-like talk show, with one of the characters, Thersites,..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

It's a Family Affair

Sharing Thanksgiving with relatives at Texas Stadium one last time

"...fourth quarter narrowly escape a beat-down instigated by his Springer-ready girlfriend's spewing of a racist epithet.)..."

Dec. 2, 2008 Sports Post by Cindy Widner

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...laying out lines of coke on the bathroom toilet, Jerry Lee Lewis getting loaded with us at the Peabody..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Chicago

Hello, suckers!

"...superstar Brandy as Roxie, and tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer as Billy Flynn, to name a few –..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Single Black Female

Lisa B. Thompson's play preaches from a Nineties perch

"...snatched away in the 1990s with the introduction of Jerry Springer, of which the image of Black womanhood “hasn’t..."

Feb. 26, 2020 Arts Post by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

Wall of Words

Artist Drew Riley on the power of Transgender Day of Visibility

"...a joke – were crazy. Tabloid talk shows, like Jerry Springer, taught me that transsexuals were freaks to be..."

March 30, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Drew Riley

DVDanger: Of Teenage Turtles and Grown-Up Bronies

Two documentaries tackle Eighties cults that won't die

"...were, what show was this for. Is this for Jerry Springer?" Fortunately, he still had Ball to vouch for..."

Aug. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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