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CAPTAIN RIBMAN
Osbourness shows serious side
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The Osbournes becomes a reality show in the bleakest sense this season, as Ozzy and the kids cope with matriarch Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer.
Yet as the second batch of episodes begins today, MTV also is trying to maintain the wackiness that made the series the network's biggest hit.
The heavy-metal rocker, his wife and two of their three children are very different people than they were when they opened their home to us a year ago.
They still spew plenty of profanities for the censors to bleep out. And Ozzy still shuffles around the house rambling incoherently about that tricky remote control.
But the Osbournes are no longer just a cuddly dysfunctional family: They're a multimedia empire, with everything from books to bobblehead dolls.
The change is obvious in the first episode, which airs at 10:30 p.m. EST.
Ozzy and Sharon fly to Washington, D.C., for the annual White House Correspondents' dinner, where they're the guests of Fox News Channel's Greta van Susteren.
Back home, 17-year-old son Jack turns the hose on fans who lurk on the Osbournes' front lawn, longing for a peek at the now-famous family and their ever-growing menagerie of dogs and cats.
And daughter Kelly, 18, rehearses for the MTV Movie Awards, where she'll perform her cover of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach," the first single off her new album, which also comes out today.
"Things are kind of like so good right now," Sharon says as the episode ends. "Everything is really great for us, that I think something's going to come and like, you know, knock us on the chin."
That something comes at the start of episode two: Sharon's diagnosis of colon cancer.
The 50-year-old is characteristically practical in discussing the disease and even invites MTV's cameras along for her first chemotherapy treatment. But the show's tone — and the rest of the family — change irrevocably.
Ozzy alternates between boozing heavily and practicing yoga backstage during the Ozzfest tour
Ozzy admits, "My heart was breaking every night on stage."
But then the action goes back to Jack, surfing in Malibu and fracturing his elbow when he tries to show off by leaping from a pier.
The juxtaposition may seem awkward, but the show's producers say they must document everything if they're going to create authentic reality television.
"The heart and soul will continue to be this extraordinary family set in ordinary situations," said Lois Curren, MTV executive vice president of the series.
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5 Drove too fast
9 Binge
14 Patsy
15 Kilauea flow
16 Primp
17 Opera melody
18 Whitney and Lilly
19 Causes turbulence
20 Headlong
22 Act infatuated
23 Place in bondage
24 Shoving match
27 Take back
29 Ancient
30 Jewel weight
34 Lennon's Yoko
35 Mass of rock
36 Yemen port
37 Dublin theatre
39 Summit
40 Public disturbance
41 Ghostly comment
42 Home or bed follower
43 "___ the ramparts..."
44 Photographer Brady
47 Beauty treatment?
49 Stretchable
54 Relaxed state
55 Penell fill
56 Leader's position
58 Bivouac
59 Concept
60 Mountain ridge
61 Elevator man
62 St. Louis gridders
63 Consumer protection advocate
64 Infielder Rose
65 Otherwise
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1 Wide open
2 Actress Sophia
3 Buckets
4 Buy time
5 Record holder?
6 Makeshift bed
7 Wickedness
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9 Develop buds
10 Conclusive evidence
11 Strengthen
12 Moray
13 Printer's measures
21 Trading center
22 Hatfield's foe
22 Rational
25 Andes animal
26 Sidled
28 Automaton
30 Pool shot
31 Farewell in Marselles
32 Clarified a request
33 Hill dweller?
33 Manx, e.g.
37 Diminish
38 One and the other
42 Trade
44 Expert
45 Recluse
46 Slip by
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle.
48 Sew loosely
50 Old English county
51 Subject to ocean's ebb and flow
52 Particulars
53 Come to an end
55 Walled-city entrance
56 Enthusiast
57 Levin or Gershwin
58 Flatfoot