Being the Osmonds 4/5

[PatriziaVonDousen]

Why charge to help save a life? I love the Osmonds but question the charging to help a person..

[redlion832]

I would think that it may take more than 8 minutes to talk someone down frm suicide

SCAM,  sad ass SCAM. Merrill is running a scam

[tiredmom101]

this keep freezing up. danggit!

[billyfan8305]

NOBODY on the face of this planet has EVER harmonized as good as these gentlemen EVER... I grew up on these guys( I am male)..caught a LOT of flak because of it..BUT.. I also learned how to SING, thanks to these guys( a skill that would later help...I was a musician for almost 20 years until health problems occurred).. I would sing along and pick out all the harmony parts."He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother" is my favorite song.. It brings chills and tears every time I hear it..

[Wolfie129]

Okay. May-me-ma-moo made me cry. They are as talented today as they were when they started. What I would not give to see them in person. God Bless each and every one of them.

[RosieFbxAk]

Oh No! This is 5/5... but it 'ended' in mid sentence... ?? =(( So.. there was more?!! Do you know if this documentary is on DVD like at Netflix or something? Does anyone know?

[dundonian35]

@RosieFbxAk lol this is 4/5 silly. I'll send you a link to part 5

[RosieFbxAk]

@dundonian35 lmao... okay - this is what happens when you pull an all night Osmond marathon and in about hour 7 you get stupid-tired! [blush] Thank you!!

[foreveralive]

Alan may have been tough on his little bros, BUT the work paid off--for ALL of them. There's nothing wrong with teaching discipline and work ethic to young people. That discipline and hard work ethic has well served the Osmond bros through the years of their lives, and it helped to make them the men they are today. It may have been unpleasant at times, but it was necessary to instill discipline given their young age.

[DebbyNJ]

@foreveralive I disagree. You can be strict without bullying. It seems to me Allan bullied Jay and the others but.....That being said he didn't know any other way. He wasn't a dad, he was just a kid and he was put in a situation to act like a dad. So he mirrored his dad. How else could he do it.

[foreveralive]

@DebbyNJ The popular notion is to cite "Daddy issues"and that Alan was mirroring his Father. Meh. They were ALL so young, and they were involved in a way of life requiring intense discipline. Keep in mind that you're talking about 8 boys and a single girl. What do you think a family that size requires to keep it ORDERLY and cohesive without even being in show business? You could argue that maybe they were all too young for that way of life, which Jay brings up, but Alan as a bully? Nah.

[Mackingster]

I would love to know what it is like to be in the same ward as the Osmonds

[brendanbuyers2009]

OK -- why don't these guys have a reality show?

[teceyS3]

They all still sound so fantastic together- perfect harmony- they should make some albums- a lot of people would buy them.

[GAMOM2]

I know. Alan may be in deep denial still - which is sought of sad at his age. The Jacksons are the same way about their dad.

[MyCelticHeaven]

I cannot help but think that now that George and Olive have passed on that MAYBE these guys are more free to be who they really are and want to be. Merrill wants to be a rocker, Wayne wanted to be a Flight Surgeon , Jay just 'wanted to be himself', and Alan possibly became another George, getting his boys up at 0545 to practice their music and dancing.

Is Jimmy the most well adjusted of all because he wasn't pressured to be part of the 1960's group stuff? He was more free to be himself.

[DebbyNJ]

@MyCelticHeaven Excellent point.

[Holdenon3]

By the way, Wayne's tie-dyed shirt reads: "we be jammin'". :-)

[DebbyNJ]

At 5:55 I cannot believe Merrill charged that kind of money to be able to talk to him for just a few minutes if your troubled. If the money did not go to charity then that was really shadey IMO.

[hotroute]

Watch Merrill's reaction to Donny's "sucking gutter water", 2:58, comment. Merrill does not seem very happy with that choice of words. Given the troubled relationship they admit to having had it does make sense.

[Holdenon3]

I noticed Merrill's reaction, too. But I don't think that he was uncomfortable with Donny's choice of words so much as he knew that Donny had nailed it.

I see more of an "a ha!" on Merrill's face than, say, "is that the most judicious way of saying it?".

[BEATTY001]

Alan in his twenties was my fave Osmond. But, sadly, it seems he's cloned himself after his dad and has brought up his sons by the same routines as he and his brothers had to endure and - as adults - still have bad feelings about.

I remember seeing an interview with Donny in which he cried and said he wished he'd had a normal childhood and that his brothers (probably all but Alan) wished so, too. :(

[TheFrogger15]

@BEATTY001 The interview you are refering too is on You Tube-Donny Osmond-Gets Upset.

[Anna9563]

From Anna,

Hi Helen, Love the harmony's.

Your friend,

Anna

[hotroute]

With only television microphones and no rehearsal time, they are able to harmonize that well during the interview.  Amazing! Alan's response to Jay's issues with him are interesting. Alan is kind of like "get over it."