{"id":1678,"date":"2006-10-19T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/next_youll_tell_me_that_melanie_griffiths_depiction_of_working_girl_tess_mcgill_was_inaccurate.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T18:37:00","slug":"next_youll_tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/next_youll_tell.html","title":{"rendered":"Next You’ll Tell Me That Melanie Griffith’s Depiction Of Working Girl Tess McGill Was Inaccurate!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Staten Island Advance is unimpressed<\/a> with MTV’s recent “True Life: I’m A Staten Island Girl” episode:<\/p>\n

If Staten Island girls are all club-hopping, mall-going, road-raging, tanning-salon-orange Italians, then last night’s episode of MTV’s True Life was so totally true to life.<\/p>\n

If Staten Island girls all date spiky-haired losers and throw in extra W’s when they tawk, then the show, I’m a Staten Island Girl was also totally true to its billing as a documentary about young people and the unusual subcultures they inhabit.<\/p>\n

Or, it was a totally vapid documentary about young people and the unadulterated stereotypes they exhibit.<\/p>\n

Do Staten Island dads really warn their daughters they’ll be sleeping with the fishes?<\/p>\n

Do 20-somethings seduce their boyfriends with lines like, Your spikes . . . they’re disheveled in all the right places.<\/p>\n

And do they say to their parents, It’s not that I don’t like youse (sic). I just want to get out of Staten Island.<\/p>\n

Apparently, sometimes they do, and yesterday, they did it on national TV.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Staten Island Advance is unimpressed with MTV’s recent “True Life: I’m A Staten Island Girl” episode: If Staten Island girls are all club-hopping, mall-going, road-raging, tanning-salon-orange Italians, then last night’s episode of MTV’s True Life was so totally true to life. If Staten Island girls all date spiky-haired losers and throw in extra W’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}