Shark Bytes

I could use hair care for this too. I remember several interviews where the main subject was the star's infamous hair. I liked this series when it first premiered, they were very interesting and i liked to hear their real feelings about the gossip, or publicity or situations we all heard and read about. It also gave me new ways of viewing an actress i previously didnt like at all. In other words , they became human beings simply trying to deal with life as a celebrity and often times making wrong choices or simply unable to cope with things just like everyone else. I liked the celebrity friends narrations as well, it was cool knowing who was close to each other and why and where they met. I stopped watching quite a long time ago now simply because i realized this isnt biography, it isnt impartial, it isnt objective by any means. Each person is shown in the exact light they choose to be shown in ,both figuratively and literally lol... some of it just became sappy, corny and they ran out of interesting women!!! all i can say is that poster who wrote about Joely Fisher??? i think you were actually kind lol... GOD what a waste of celluloid! and kelly Preston is right behind her. At least Fisher has been on two series. As soon as i started seeing things like a filmy gauze over the actresses, and all of them being portrayed as just wonderful ( Marla Maples was one of them) it was shark pate' for me.

I had no problem with Lifetime's Intimate Portrait (even with Viera hosting) until now. I mean, I should realize that for the sake of the women being profiled, they are sugarcoating a lot of facts about the stars, but I think the show went a bit too far. Case in point: the Intimate Portrait of Jasmine Guy, which I recently saw last week. The item I had a problem with is the Portrait claiming that A Different World was at the top of the ratings for its series run (six years) before it was abruptly cancelled in 1993. The reality is that A Different World was in the top ten of the Neilsens for four years straight until the end of the fifth season (1992), when the show was rated #17. The reason why the show was cancelled was because during the sixth season ratings fell from #17 to number fifty-something (my guess is #56 or #57) in the ratings. For Lifetime to claim that the show was always at the top of the Neilsens to glorify Jasmine Guy and her co-stars and vilify NBC is a shame.

At first I thought this show jumped when they stopped airing it 5 times a week and put it only on Mondays, but the past few installments were very well-produced and included very good interviews, especially Linda Lavin, Isabel Sanford, Cloris Leachman and Florence Henderson. These are women you rarely see interviewed on E! or ET, and they've led very interesting lives. I could do without Meredith Vieira and the revamped theme song ("Her Story, Her Words"-repeat 6x) but this show seems to be going strong after 300 episodes. Also, the new female narrator has the perfect voice for this show. (they stopped having celebrity friends of the stars do the narration.)

I think this show started to jump when they had just everybody under the sun on. There have been people on that I have never heard of before much less care about. I do think that some of the shows are interesting. It just depends on the person. Also, does anybody remember the very first episodes of the show. They were really cool. I remember that they had one show about witches and another about female spies. It just really is not that interesting anymore. I really like the ones about the old movie stars. The one's about Maya Angelou and Gloria Steinem were really great to.

Always makes me laugh when I hear this & other "Lifetime" intros...that breathy female voice..."Intimate Portrait...Valerie Bertinelli...from 'TV teen' to 'TV Queen'!...it makes "stars" (cooincidentally "Star", as in "Jones" got one too!) out of some moderate female celebrities, some of which NEED a lifetime to amass enough to say about them....Oxana Bayul?? Drew Barrymore?? Who next, that annoying litle girl from the Pepsi ads?! This really could be a much better show/concept/channel overall if they just DUMPED that whole "Television for women" drivel and got caught up with the changing times! This whole "cater to the office chick-club" mentality is now becoming so out-of-date it just looks downright silly now! How many "Lifetime Original Movies" with the third-worst title reject from a paperback novel like...."'HER HUSBAND'S DEADLY BETRAYAL'...starring Cheryl Ladd" do we need to see anyhow to make whatever point is trying to be made?! Bring on a show like "Women Aloud", that really cool show Mo Gaffney did for about 5 too-short minutes in the early 90's! Get a sense of humor that ISN'T just a rehash of 80's popular sitcoms with mostly female casts...

Joely Fisher. Besides having a famous mother, father, various steps, and sister, what has she actually done to be given an entire hour to cover her life??? Worse yet, she said something to the effect of, I just want a normal life. Well that's easy, sister, QUIT TRYING TO LOG FACE TIME ON ANY SHOW THAT WILL HAVE YOU, you no-talent, riding the coat tails of your family, waste of DNA!

Betty White was on. How could a show with Betty jumped??? I love it!

Lifetime, Television for Women! If you want to be more accurate, how about television for stereotypical women? God this show sucks! I haven't even SEEN it, and I know it sucks! The only good shows on this channel are Designing Women (I know what you're thinking, but it really is very funny!), and Unsolved Mysteries, and their both syndicated from the networks!

I agree with some of what has been said (Kelly Preston? come on!), but some of the Intimate Portraits have been good. The best one was on Maya Angelou. I also saw a pretty good one on Cyndi Lauper. The nice thing about the existence of a show like this is that it profiles people you might not see on A&E's Biography or E! True Hollywood Story. The bad thing is, sometimes it goes too far the other way and profiles anybody with ovaries who was famous for two weeks.

Not that Intimate Portrait was ever a stellar piece of work, but the addition of Meredith Vieira as host was sheer idiocy on the part of Lifetime. What?!?!?! She is just a dark presence that frames the evil already present in so many Intimate Portraits -- e.g., Heather Locklear, Celine Dion, Gabrielle Reece, etc. -- and that does NOT need to be worsened.

When they did an intimate portrait on Kelly Preston. What has she ever done other than marry John Travolta and shoot out his fleshloaf?