Fans of '90s tabloid sensationalism remember the story: Greasy Long Island mechanic Joey Buttafuoco was cheating on his wife Mary Jo with 17-year-old "Lolita" Amy Fisher, and Amy got jealous one day, shot Mary Jo in the face (she lived) and ended up in jail for seven years. The story made headlines all over the world; Amy became so famous that she was even played by Drew Barrymore in a bad TV movie. But that was 15 long years ago - today Joey and Mary Jo are no longer married; Joey is going through a divorce after splitting with the woman he wed after Mary Jo; and Amy is out of jail and divorcing her own husband with whom she's had two kids. And now, according to The Insider, notorious lovers Joey and Amy have gotten back together - and are of course planning on launching a reality show. Because that's what you do when you are a total dirtbag with nothing worthwhile to offer the world.
It might sound like a great idea on the surface - trainwreck TV starring an ex-convict slut and the man who pushed her to murder. Unfortunately, the reality thing has gotten so rote by this point that nothing really spontaneous or interesting ever happens. It's all bad play-acting. They'll pad around in their bare feet swearing at each other - all bleeped out of course, cause the audience's sensibilities are so delicate (you can tell because they're watching a show with Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco). They'll get in fights about leaving the toilet seat up, or forgetting to put the Glock away after taking a pot-shot at the noisy neighbors. Joey will win every argument by finally screaming, "Well at least I didn't shoot my lover's wife in the face and go to prison for seven years!" At which point Amy will run away crying and lock herself in her room. Hopefully, at some point, she will come back out with a shotgun and give Joey both barrels. Come to think of it, I might want to watch that after all.
(by the way - when you run spell-check the program suggests "buttock" for "Buttafuoco." dirty spell-check suggests "butt-fuck.")
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Joey Buttafuoco, Amy Fisher Planning Reality Series
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Posted by Melvin Ayatollahofrock'nrolla at 12:31 PM
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Man, I loved that Amy Fisher movie with Drew Barrymore. Her eyebrows did all the acting.
LOL where can I get dirty spell-check? BTW my bastid ex-husband was all INTO the Buttafucko thing 15 years ago, he's dead now...poetic justice.
Didn't Allyssa Milano also play Amy Fisher in another made for television movie? I swear I remember her playin this role.
Anyway, what scumbags, and to think that people would watch and let them profit from such a screwed up situation that nearly killed, and seriously impaired an innocent victim (although why Joey's wife didn't dump him I'll never know)
I hope it never makes it to television and they end up penniless. This is so vile, the next thing will be OJ in a reality series brutalizing his next girlfriend. What a fucked up world!
5:00, I saw the one with Alyssa Milano.
It sucked.
Does anyone really want to watch anything about this Long Island trash?? If they were smart, the would get that American Idol topless chick, Antonella or something for this show. At least she is young, and hot. These two geezers are pathetic.
Point of clarification: Alyssa Milano played Amy Fisher in a made-for-TV movie. Drew Barrymore played a similar dangerous Lolita role in "Poison Ivy", with that frumpy, sullen dark-haired chick from "Roseanne". Both movies are, predictably, complete shit.
Actually there were 3 tv movies about Amy Fisher: one stared Drew Barrymore, one stared Alyssa Milano, and then there was one with some random chick no one ever heard of. Or heard anything about since. I guess all 3 networks had to have their own Amy Fisher story (I think that this was back before Fox was really considered a network).
Barry and Milano both did movies about this. Both sucked. So does Amy.
Crabbie: Brilliant, spot-on and hilarious parody of a Buottofuco/Fisher reality show!
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