Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Cross-dressing show falls victim to disquiet - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

"Cross-dressing show falls victim to disquiet

WORLD BRIEFINGS
By Nicholas Birch
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 24, 2006

ISTANBUL
He's a lady? Not in Turkey, he's not. Some would de-scribe it as a victory for common sense, others as a victory for a faintly homophobic form of family values. But a recent decision by a Turkish TV channel to scrap a show deemed a threat to public morals also is a sign of Turks' deeply conflicted attitudes toward the European Union and the West, local analysts say.
As ideas for television shows go, Kanal 1's latest money-spinner was simple. Take eight men, wax their legs, squeeze them into skirts and dump them in a camera-filled kitchen for three weeks. "

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