As many readers know, I was flown out to New York last week to be on a taping of the Tyra Banks Show. The video summary (with my green room and hotel footage) is here. You could always just watch this instead (but it's giving me nightmares of grand mal seizures interspersed
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sed with wigs on sticks barking "that's FIERCE" every four frames). The main points read as follows:
* Tyra read my Oprah article and based a show on it. That's the first thing she said to me. Onstage. (Tyra does not mix nor mingle with the help.)
* Tyra gravely underestimated Oprah's fierceness.
* Tyra hates tattoos, even ones you can't see.
* I was threatened in increments five different ways to cover the tattoo on the back of my neck.
* I was told I was going to be the show's for-women, "porn expert". No one would give me segment specifics for talking points.
* When I was about to go onstage in front of the studio audience, a staff member presented me with a list of pre-planned questions they'd had all along.
* The answers to all of those questions -- my answers -- were also included. The staff member who had me review them confessed to having cut and pasted the responses from my Oprah article. I said, "I know. I can recognize my own writing."
* The segment notes included showing me a clip of "porn for women" -- from a movie made in 1997.
* Onstage, Tyra didn't ask me the scripted questions, but instead asked me about how I review porn, and then the most bizarre question I could ever imagine being asked by a supermodel on TV.
* After the weird question, she abruptly changed the segment.
* By the time I got back to the green room, I saw on the monitor that she was then telling the audience what she loves about being famous.
The whole story is here.
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