Robyn Roche is literally stumbling her way through her exercise video. She fumbles during step aerobics, entangles herself in jump-rope and trips all over her own words. Roche is no Jane Fonda. No matter. Roche and her team can still turn a buck with the hapless video by licensing it to reality TV producers in search of humorous blooper footage. In this case, it's licensed three times, including to a Fox show called, appropriately enough, Stupid Behavior Caught on Tape. "Today, we're going to be jumping rope," Roche says while unspooling a knotted jump-rope. "Or at least untying one," jokes offscreen narrator Stacy Keach on the May 29 telecast. Stupid? Definitely. But reality? Hardly. Before some clever editing, the tape was merely a collection of staged bloopers, with Roche purposely taking falls choreographed by a director named George Bartko. And, Bartko claims, some employees at Nash Entertainment, the production company behind Stupid Behavior Caught on Tape, might have known full well that they had licensed phony outtakes of an exercise video that was never to be. "Reality producers don't care if it's fudged," Bartko says. "They're in dire need of content."...
- 9/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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