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Hi everyone, stay with me on this one....but here is a press release for an upcoming show where people can win prizes by dancing on the graves of celebrities or filmmakers we are familiar with. I'm absolutely dumfounded by this...

CBS ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF “DANCING ON THE STARS,” AN EXCITING AND COMPLETELY ORIGINAL REALITY PROGRAM THAT OWES ITS CONCEPT AND EXECUTION TO NOBODY AT ALL

Los Angeles, June 20, 2012 – Subsequent to recent developments in the creative and legal community, CBS Television today felt it was appropriate to reveal the upcoming launch of an exciting, groundbreaking and completely original new reality program for the CBS Television Network.

The dazzling new show, DANCING ON THE STARS, will be broadcast live from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and will feature moderately famous and sort of well-known people you almost recognize competing for big prizes by dancing on the graves of some of Hollywood’s most iconic and well-beloved stars of stage and screen.

The cemetery, the first in Hollywood, was founded in 1899 and now houses the remains of Andrew “Fatty” Arbuckle, producer Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paul Muni, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, George Harrison of the Beatles and Dee Dee Ramone of the Ramones, among many other great stars of stage, screen and the music business. The company noted that permission to broadcast from the location is pending, and that if efforts in that regard are unsuccessful, approaches will be made to Westwood Village Memorial Park, where equally scintillating luminaries are interred.

“This very creative enterprise will bring a new sense of energy and fun that’s totally unlike anything anywhere else, honest,” said a CBS spokesperson, who also revealed that the Company has been working with a secret team for several months on the creation of the series, which was completely developed by the people at CBS independent of any other programming on the air. “Given the current creative and legal environment in the reality programming business, we’re sure nobody will have any problem with this title or our upcoming half-hour comedy for primetime, POSTMODERN FAMILY.”

“After all,” the spokesperson added, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

Deadline is reporting that CBS released the spoof e-mail as retaliation to ABC for their show "Glass Houses" (a "Big Brother" clone). Sure its tongue in cheek but CBS should not release press releases as "spoof" press releases (there are no disclaimers that it is a spoof either).

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JFK, I think you took a wrong turn. The haiku-with-poorly-made-joke-included site is located somewhere else. I hope you find it.

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[Danny Burk]

In any event.....it's very hard to read. Why muddle your messages?

Just for the record, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is not interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He was cremated and the ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean by his widow Addie McPhail.

Paul E. Gierucki

I could drive about an hour north and dance on Poodles Hanneford's grave- anyone want pictures?

Spoof or not, whoever thought this was funny has about the least amount of taste of any I've ever seen.
I hope the cemetery is not going along with their "joke".

The follow up: "Screw on the Stars"

and don't tell me it's never been done...

Aren't most of the celebs buried in wall graves?

No, there are a great many conventional graves. They range from headstones to substantial memorials (DeMille, Cohn, Fairbanks).

Next time I'm in Rochester, I'll have to drop by Louise Brooks' plot for a tango.

Just for the record, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is not interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He was cremated and the ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean by his widow Addie McPhail.

Paul E. Gierucki

I'm assuming Addie was afraid of interring Roscoe in a grave for fear of idiots vandalising it. The sad thing is this also means there's not a monument now for him for us to place flowers or the plaque he deserves on.

EEEEWWW that morbid

It could be a plaque on the corner of the location of Comique Studios.
I can't imagine a tribute requiring a dead body beneath it to be considered a proper tribute
(Like during the Dark Ages Christian Church required a "relic" or remains of a saint upon which to build a church.
Eventually, to build new edifaces, they cannonized -made saints of - folks who didn't earn it, or several
Churches had the same remains of the same saint - leading to questions of livestock bones standing-in
For "saints").

So, a monument where he CREATED his films would be possibly more fitting.
Also, like his cohort Buster Keaton, they could put the monument ACROSS THE STREET from where the studio
Had been located!

It could be a plaque on the corner of the location of Comique Studios.
I can't imagine a tribute requiring a dead body beneath it to be considered a proper tribute.

^ This.
A tribute can range from a simple photo on a wall to an elaborate statue the size of a city block.

Well, I was reminded of the plaques the Sons of the Desert placed on the previously lacklustre grave markers for Stan and Ollie, but those ideas all sound good! Come to think of it, Harry Langdon's marker, last time I saw a photo of it, is in pretty poor shape, but maybe that's another thread....