Topic: Vaudeville

Mimi Smith Dvorak discusses her family's history in vaudeville through her grandmother, Emma Janvier, who worked with W.C. Fields. Adam Curry reflects on his own experience with fame in the Netherlands and as an MTV VJ in New York. They discuss the loss of privacy associated with celebrity and how some stars, like Harrison Ford, choose to live away from Hollywood to avoid the paparazzi.

John C. Dvorak provides a brief history of 19th-century theater, vaudeville, and burlesque, noting that audiences used to throw rotten produce at poor performers. This inspires a pitch for a new Mevio show called "The Tomato Show," where the audience is permitted to throw a limited amount of rotten eggs and cabbages at acts they dislike.