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A bee in our bonnet
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ARYEH DEAN COHEN
Jerusalem Post
01-21-2005
Headline: A bee in our bonnet
Byline: ARYEH DEAN COHEN
Edition; Billboard
Section: Arts
Page: 23
Friday, January 21, 2005 -- If opposites attract, what is it about bringing together five Amish young people and five "regular" youths to live together in an LA house that's so unattractive?
That's what we were asking ourselves after sitting through HOT Extra's debut of Amish In the City (Sunday, 10 p.m.) - a reality show that brought five Amish twenty- somethings to the City of Angels to live for two months with a group of their more God-less peers.
Truth be ...
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