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Aug. 21, 2001 By Janelle Holden MI is for mother-in-law on The ManShow.com’s Periodic Table, the "essential elements of a man’s universe." According to the stars of The Man Show, a Comedy Central television show on being male, MI means, "Wanna see how your wife’s going to look in 25 years? Take a gander at your mother-in-law. Better yet, don’t." They’re rude, they’re crude, and they recently taped an upcoming show in Dolores County. "The Man Show," an L.A. production, spent a week at Dunton Hot Springs, and filmed one episode of the half-hour to hour-long show on July 26. "We picked the hot springs because it’s an exquisite, beautiful resort," said Mara Waldman, the show’s associate producer, who explained that although the show is usually taped on location in Los Angeles, producers pick a few remote locations each year. This particular show is part of a "best of The Man Show" and will feature a "wood/ranch" theme when it airs sometime in the spring of 2002, according to Waldman. Ashley Boling, a Telluride resident who helped with the production, said the cast and crew flew into Cortez from L.A. before traveling to Dunton. Boling said the hosts played up the western aspect of the shoot. "It was kind of tongue and cheek, like these city slickers who had never ridden a horse or done any trick roping, were there trying to be wranglers," said Boling. Rogna Culbertson, the office manager of the resort, who lives in Cortez, purchased a rainbow trout from a Cortez grocery store to use in a scene involving the two hosts, Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. "They were sitting by the outdoor hot springs, and I was in charge of putting a partially cooked rainbow trout on a fishing lure that Jimmy had in the Hot Springs water," explained Boling, "and they had a little dialogue and then he said, ‘Oh, I think I got something.’ He pulled out the already cooked trout, took it off the line and ate a chunk out of it and said, ‘Oh, the greatest thing about fishing here at Dunton Hot Springs is you catch a fish it’s already cooked.’" The show did not feature any local talent, but it did feature nine western-clad "Juggies," a group of scantily clad women who jump on a trampoline at the end of every show. "The hosts are pretty average-looking guys, but they are surrounded by these nine, beautiful, voluptuous, 22-year-old women — very scantily clad," explained Boling. Stephanie Two Eagles, a representative of the Colorado Film Commission, said she was surprised when the producers contacted the commission to help them film in Dolores County. "They had decided to come there and I’m not sure why," explained Two Eagles, who said the film commission normally helps find suitable locations in Colorado for a film shoot, but in this case the producers’ minds were already made up. Two Eagles put "The Man Show" in touch with a Telluride representative, but other than that, no state resources were expended on the effort. |
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