The Washington Post, November 24th, 1988
The talk show as inquisition. Proudly wearing her scarlet letter, 14-year-old Hester Prynne sits primly on the dais, next to the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, with whom she ran away from home. The studio audience in old Salem Towne is restless, hardly able to wait to fire the questions. Phil races up the aisle to a stern-faced mother. How could Father do this evil thing? she demands. Dimmesdale says he discovered what real love is, that the couple is blissfully happy and is going to Africa to minister to starving children. The audience murmurs, sighs and shivers with forbidden delight. The camera cu...
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