Dumb Ass Reviews

I've decided to include a new section that highlights some really stupid reviews I've come across about Sordid Lives, whether it be the film, play or TV series. I realize that I probably shouldn't shine a light on such trash, but I think it's ironic:

First up from the Valdosta Daily Times (it is from the Editorial Column in reference to the papers article/review of the play):
"I found the article regarding ‘Sordid Lives’ to be very offensive. There is enough sordidness in everyday life without bringing it to the stage. If this is culture, God forbid that I ever become cultured."
---http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/opinion/local_story_234003712.html

Youtube Gold: Sordid's Chris Pudlo Gives Us 10 Minutes of Hysteria

Not only is Chris Pudlo, who plays a crazy mental patient in Sordid Lives the Series, a natural hottie, he's apparently got some mad character skills. Check out this 10 minute short film he just posted to youtube.com.
From Youtube:

Somewhere between LOST HIGHWAY and THE OFFICE is the . . . LOST OFFICE!

A succession of strange people interview for a mysterious job in an unsettling office.

Starring CHRIS PUDLO

Written by CHRIS PUDLO and MIKE JUSTICE

Directed by MIKE JUSTICE

Olivia Newton-John's Uncut "Dick"

It's no lie... she's written a hyterically funny song titled "You Look Like A Dick" for Sordid Lives: the Series and Del Shores has posted the full length version on his youtube.com page.
I'm loving this show more and more everyday!

Poll Winners!

The last two polls showed that "Listen to me you little pill poppin bitch" (said by Rue McClanahan's Peggy to Bonnie Bedealia's Latrelle) was everyone's favorite line so far and the original version of "Sordid Lives" is still your favorite Olivia Newton-John track from Sordid Lives: The Series!

A new poll is coming soon!

Sordid Lives Ep 5 The Best Yet

God, dead goats, waxed vajajays, and a scene with Ty and his mother than would make a straight man cry all were icing on the Sordid Lives cake in last nighths premiere of Episode 5. I really must commend Logo for having found such a ground-breaking show. My mom and her her straight friends watch it weekly and even my dad, who likes nothing with a ball or an umpire in it, loves the show.
Sissy is quickly becomming my favorite character, followed by Noleta, Brother Boy, Ty and Lavonda. It's so hard to even love any one more than the others they are all so wonderful.
I want to know what YOU thought of last nights episode!

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Catch the Show Tonight

Repeat Repeat Repeat
Heavenly Heavenly Heavenly
Sordid Lives: the Series
Tonight 7PM EST

YouTube Gold: Sordid Summer

from YouTube.com: Summer Clearence doing her best as Brother Boy at a show @ O Henry's nightclub in Asheville, NC on 4/28/07

David Steen Beats Up Beth Grant

The new G.W. David Steen is a part of the Del Shores' acting troupe for sure. He starred in Del Shores' most recent play which I've copied a synopsis of below.

I love him as G.W. With all due respect to Beau Bridges, this new incarnation is perfect. He's sexy in a trashy way, he's mean, he's funny and he stays chop for chop with Caroline Rhea which is no easy task considering how brilliant she is as Noleta. The new Nethercott's are fabulous. Well, that could never be the right word for a Nethercott.

Here's David Steen in a production still from Del's play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife" with Beth Grant (Sissy) who won every award in theatre in Los Angeles for her leading tour-de-force performance.


The Trials and Tribulations
of a Trailer Trash Housewife

Del Shores’ 2003 play explores the hidden emotions, shame, and secrecy of battered women, while also offering hope, healing, and truth. A delicate blend of frightened humor and pain, the three act play delves right into the heart of abuse. From hysterical highs, to the depths of tragic lows, the play sweeps the emotional spectrum. Shores draws the audience into the fire, allowing them to experience the emotion from all sides… the abuser, the abused, and the powerless bystander.

Beth Grant stars as "Willadean Winkler" a mother of two children (a deceased daughter, and an adult gay son) who is trapped in a loveless marriage with "J.D. Winkler" (David Steen), a struggling truck driver who is lost in unrealistic adolescent athletic dreams. Set in Mesquite Texas, they live in a trailer park next to Willi’s best and only friend, "La Sonia" (Octavia Spencer), a lively character filled with much needed comic relief and hope. Across the way the park’s newest resident, "Rayleen Hobbs" (Dale Dickey), storms into their lives, and sadly she too has her own tragic story to tell.

The character’s are brilliantly strung together, with the help of a sultry intuitive blues singer (Debby Holiday), giving a mere two hour journey into their world that could fill a lifetime. Explosive one-sided arguments erupt and build over time, until one disastrous night it goes too far and the lives of those in the trailer park will never the same.

YouTube Gold: Another Drag Show

from Youtube.com: Tonna Mckenzie performs Olivia Newton-John's "Sordid Lives". See live drag/cabaret shows at the Monkey Business Bar every weds at 8pm and every Sat at 11:30pm

Foursome! Sordid Lives Airs Four Times Back-To-Back

I usually hate when LOGO repeats shows this much, but I love Sordid Lives: The Series and I love these weekly marathon viewings.

Tonight catch all four aired episodes:

Episode 1 10PM EST
Episode 2 1030
Episode 3 11
Episode 4 1130

I say make yourself a couple of cocktails (or smoke a little grass!), invite your friends over and have a Sordid Lives Marathon Party.

Send your pictures to me and I'll post them! SordidLivesTheBlog@me.com

YouTube Gold: Auzzies Do a Little Sordid Sync

OMG! This is a drag show in Australia set to odd music while the dueling drag queens lip sync to Sordid Lives (the movie).

From Youtube.com: Reagan Wilde and Jed McDonald pay homage to the amazing Del Shores movie "Sordid Lives". This was performed at The Ed Hotel in Adelaide Australia.

Sordid Lives The Series is the Best New Show on TV

If you agree that Sordid Lives: the Series is the best new show on TV, have a shot! Not since Will & Grace and the Cosby Show, or Soap and All In The Family, has a TV show been so massively loved right off the bat. The entire cast is terrific. Understood that the existing cast is brilliant the newbies, Caroline Rhea, Jason Dottley, David Steen and David Cowgill are all great. I have a huge crush on Jason Dottley. He's a fantastic actor and a big improvement over Kirk Geiger as Ty. Also the Sharron Alexis, the crazy ex, is hotter and better than ever. Rosemary Alexander looks 10 years younger than in the film and is just captivatingly hateful! Katherine Bailess is a gem, an absolute gem. And Del Shores is a god for creating such a masterpiece. enjoy

Celebrate the Best New Show on TV

Celebrate the best new show on TV by having a Sordid Lives: the Series viewing marathon Friday night! Logo is airing all four episodes back to back Friday night (tomorrow for the calendar-challenged)

Episode 1 10PM EST
Episode 2 1030
Episode 3 11
Episode 4 1130

I say make yourself a couple of cocktails (or smoke a little grass!), invite your friends over and have a Sordid Lives Marathon Party.

Send your pictures to me and I'll post them! SordidLivesTheBlog@me.com

Ode To a Bar Goddess: Juanita

Some call her a bar fly, some call her crazy, I call her a bar goddess. Sarah Hunley's portrayal of Juanita in Sordid Lives: The Series leaves me literally aching from laughter. She's got alot on her alcohol soaked brain and she's never afraid of letting you know it. Although, she no good with names, "I forget."

Craziest thing of all is how un-like Juanita Sarah Hunley looks in real life. Compare below for yourself!



We love you Juanita!!

Amber Alert!!! Where are Noleta's Kids

It happened from season one to season two in Family Matters and it seems that now Sordid Lives: the Series has lost children. In the film Noleta mentions having to get home to explain about GW to her kids, but in the series, unless they're the tiniest midgets ever to leave the Wizard of Oz, they are no where to be found!

Whatever happened to the kids??? Will they appear later? Did Del Shores kick them out, LOL?

Episode 4: Tonight!

Don't miss the fourth installment tonight on LOGO of Sordid Lives The Series! Watch a LOGO provided teaser for the episode starring the fabulous new Ty Jason Dottley and the gorgeous Ted Detwiler!

Vintage Goodie: Sordid's Good Girl Gone Bad

From the end credit of the film Sordid Lives

Spotted in Fiji

Jason Dottley and Del Shores have been spotted in Fiji..more information hopefully forthcoming!

Another String Trick, Stupid

Whatever happened to Earl Bullock? He not only originated the role of string-trick idiot "Odell" in the play, but also in the movie. He's not dead. So why is he not here?

Don't get me wrong. I prefer the new guy, David Cowgill. First of all, he's very funny, but secondly, he's superbly cute. He's straight, too, so ladies! Do you remember him from Young and the Restless?

Let's do a side by side comparison of the new and old Odells. I bet David Cowgil's got a string he can do some mean tricks with in his Wranglers! Yum!

Sordid Video Vault: Olivia Newton-John

Sordid Lives the Blog brings you the first music video for Sordid Lives and it's a brand new song from Olivia Newton-John called "None of My Business". It has a great groove to it, in that countrified way!