Enter
GEORGE BURNS/OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK VIA GETTY IMAGES
a chance to paso doble her way to
racial transcendence. As Rosenberg points out, DWTS provides
a massive “likability engine” that
offers “participants a framework
to attract supporters and to leverage their personalities against
those of other minor or shamed
so-called stars.” The dancers work
hard, bruise their bodies and offer
tearful takes on how much they’ve
learned and grown from their experience. It’s actually about as
close as you can come to a Calvinist ballroom dance competition.
Now, I have a feeling that Deen
may opt out of the Dancing with
the Stars route to absolution,
Lance
Armstrong
speaks
with Oprah
Winfrey
about the
controversy
surrounding
his cycling
career in
January.
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
HUFFINGTON
07.14.13
[Dancing with the Stars]
is actually about as close as
you can come to a Calvinist
ballroom dance competition.”
but that’s hardly the only way to
make your way through the game
of infotainment penitence. In fact,
I’m happy to lay my marker down
right now and predict that Deen
might follow in the footsteps of
Lance Armstrong and throw herself at the mercy of Oprah Winfrey, who persists as pop-culture’s