Wonder what message we can read into that. If I'm preaching a bit, bear with me. If you're not following me at all, let me simplify. Marcia Clark, Christopher Darden, Lance Ito, Fred Goldman, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Schapiro, Denise Brown, and Faye Resnick, just to name a few. If EDtv does have a message to deliver, it's a plain one.
Nobody can live comfortably in the public spotlight for long.
It destroys the basic way of life. Think of celebrities like Elvis, becoming prisoners of their homes because going out in public caused too much of a mob scene. Sometimes, it really is no wonder that movie stars take a swing at photographers. Thankfully, Ron Howard had the frame of mind to keep this movie funny, because it could've been a dark fairy tale, like the now-classic Network . Having a great cast helps, and having long-time comedy demigods Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel write the script also helped.