The real Real World passes:
The real Real World passes: NYT obit for Lance Loud. Far from being an artificial, carefully focus-grouped piece of marketing bullshit, An American Family was authentic, organic, and fascinating, and Lance was the centerpiece of it all, coming out before there was "coming out" and doing it in front of a national (well, ok, PBS) television audience. We have most of the series on videotape, and one afternoon a few years ago I watched most of it through. It was incredibly compelling. This is really the end of an era in a specific, peculiar way.