Mae West: Shame Game

MAE WEST sashayed through Marina Hyde's column in The Guardian during the month of February. The British columnist was inveighing against this topic: "Shamelessness: the TV route to rehabilitation."
• • Observing that "Broadcasters have a superpower - - and seem increasingly complacent about the way in which they are excercising it," Marina Hyde scolded Channel 4 and other networks. Hyde added: "Shame, one mused, dragging the word from some cobwebbed memory hole. Didn't you hear they found the antidote to that? It's called television."
• • According to Ms Hyde, the concept of disgrace as a career opportunity is not especially new. "I expect it will be the making of me," Mae West purred in 1927 of her arrest on vice charges relating to her play Sex, and indeed it was. But it has never been easier to bounce back, and TV is the primary redemptive force. ... Reality TV pays better even than Mohammed Fayed, it seems ...."
• • Source: The Guardian, UK - - http://www.guardian.co.uk/
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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