Ben Flajnik: 'The Bachelor' editors gave me a 'raw deal' [Video]
Ben Flajnik has taken plenty of heat during this season of "The Bachelor."Fans and critics -- including your's truly, of course -- have complained that the winemaker is only interested in girls with looks (e.g., Courtney, the model) and not brains (Emily, the PhD student). He's too bland, many whine. And perhaps the most common gripe: Won't this dude get a haircut already?
So when I scored an invite to attend the behind-the-scenes taping of the Women Tell All last week, I jumped at the opportunity. No matter that it'd require spending nine hours in a chilly sound stage listening to a handful of catty women scream at one another. I wanted to grill Ben on behalf of America.
As you can see in our interview below, that proved to be a bit more difficult than anticipated. Since Ben has had harsh critiques lobbed at him over the last couple of months, perhaps I shouldn't have found it surprising that he had quick, defensive answers to most of my questions. One of those most pressing, of course: Are you really expecting me to buy that Courtney's occupation didn't give her an advantage?
Big screen TVs may have replaced the striped poles, but the shops remain a gathering place for guys. Jack McShane, 4, sat for his haircut after school by barber Josh Gilbert at Brookside Barber Shop at 308. W. 63rd Street in Kansas City, Mo.
It was that stylist, by the way, who first theorized that “men used to have their own planet, but they blew theirs up.” Speaking of haircuts, oddly enough, it was another hair-cutting enterprise that waded into men-vs.-women territory last week with
