The Spawn of Ozzy Osbourne Cashing in On His Father’s Fame
So Jack and his mother Sharon have produced what I am going to assume is a tell-all story about Ozzy Osbourne. You just know that The Wreckage of My Past, a documentary about the life of the ‘reformed’ rocker, is going to be a box office winner for Jacko Productions.
The movie description reads, “Newly sober, Ozzy has finally reached a point of clarity as he looks back on a lifetime of unresolved issues, unparalleled success, misdiagnosed diseases, severed ties, and a recurring dependency on drugs and alcohol…this film is about reconciling the past and looking toward the future.”
Ozzy has reached a point of clarity, are you kidding me? I still can’t understand half of what he says, or what he is, in fact I doubt Ozzy understands himself. Of course, the amount of drugs and alcohol he has consumed over his lifetime is probably to blame for that, and is making the aging rocker delusional if he truly thinks he has reached a point of clarity.
Hold on a sec, maybe it’s just his son Jack and his wife Sharon who believe that, after all it’s their documentary. Or should I say it’s their money that footed the bill to produce the film, one that I think is going to go out of its way to redeem Ozzy for what he has done to become the cash cow he has become. It’s not as if the world doesn’t know who Ozzy is, or what kind of guy he is and how he got there. I mean come on now, Ozzy’s life has always been an open book hasn’t it, except for his deepest, darkest secrets, and I doubt that too many of them will be revealed in the movie.
There is little doubt in my mind that this movie is going to miss the mark, that bits and pieces of the life Ozzy will be deliberately omitted, if only to protect Ozzy and his family from any more embarrassment than they have already endured.
Come on now, does anybody truly believe ‘this story’ is going to do anything but candy-coat the former Black Sabbath front man’s life, despite his son’s claim that he tried to paint a realistic picture of who his father is. I don’t think Jack has any idea who is father really is, how about you?
Interesting how Jack thinks the family’s reality TV show tarnished the public’s perception of his father. Ozzy didn’t need any help with that; after all, he had quite the reputation before The Osbournes hit MTV. The only thing the reality TV show did was put him in a more public domain, something the Osbournes agreed to do for the almighty dollar. Besides Ozzy, if anybody is to blame for this so-called tarnished public perception, it’s Jack, his mother, and his sister Kelly. If it hadn’t been for their greed, there is no way the public would have thought any less or any more of Ozzy if that show didn’t air.
You can bet the “Benjamins” did the talking when Jack and his mother convinced Ozzy to go along with this latest cash grab, otherwise there is little doubt in my mind that this film would have gone ahead.
It is set to be released in 2010.
I won’t be lining up to see it, but only because I doubt it will be an honest portrayal of one of the greatest heavy-metal rockers of all time.
I really have my doubts about the film telling the world anything it already doesn’t know about Ozzy. You just never know though.
Comments