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In the same way that Captain Louis Renault was shocked to find gambling going on at Rick Blaine's cafe in the movie classic "Casablanca," many observers were also "shocked" at the news last week that the marriage of ABC-TV's "Golden Bachelor" had floundered after only three months.
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, the seventy-something couple who wed after "The Golden Bachelor" in January, announced their split on ABC's "Good Morning America," and now gossip columnists are working overtime trying to figure out what went wrong.
A columnist for the Los Angeles Times opined that the separation "has created what may be the biggest embarrassment" in the history of the "Bachelor" franchise. You'll forgive our cynicism, but it seems that any courtship that is carried out in front of cameras, with the pressure that one contestant ultimately be chosen for a walk down the aisle, is hardly a way for anybody to build a durable union.
Television programs like "The Bachelor" may be billed as "reality TV," but their actual resemblance to reality is scant at best.
-- Herald-Standard, Uniontown