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Article: Reality Television: Among The Gladiators In The Green Room.(Brief Article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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I have been spending a lot of time in "green rooms" lately. Those are a television show guest's equivalent of cattle holding pens. You sit there until the show's producer tells you it's time to get into the studio. "Charitable choice," President George W. Bush's method of funneling tax money into religious groups so they can deliver social services, has been a very hot talk show topic. I've been asked to do a lot of the talking.
Green rooms can get quite crowded. Some people get shuttled off to green room annexes where makeup artists try to make the most of the sometimes sorry faces they see before them. In my case, I consider them miracle workers.
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