Persistence of Whores

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Prostitute intrigues are fairly popular these days among younger cable viewers, to judge by the existence of Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl, HBO and Darren Star's forthcoming Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, Rod Lurie's Hillary Jones (a Showtime drama "about a woman who works as a vice cop in Los Angeles during the week and as a legal prostitute in Nevada during the weekend") and the recent talk about Ashley Dupre (the service-provider of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer) getting some kind of a reality TV deal.

And so The Frisky's "Amelia" has taken this recent flurry of activity to remind that playing a prostitute almost always works out in terms of Oscars, Oscar nominations and/or glowing reviews.