Is Marion Barry the Next Reality-Show Star?

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The D.C. Council may have censured him, but Marion Barry won’t let you forget that he’s “mayor for life.”

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And he has a reality show to prove it. The series, which had one episode streaming via YouTube last week, is still being shopped around to a few networks, according to his former communications director Andre Johnson. (The YouTube episode has since been made private.)

If Sarah Palin can get a show, it shouldn’t be too long before Barry’s Mayor for Life gets picked up. In the meantime, here’s hoping that the first episode will show up on YouTube again.

Read more about this at the Washington Post.

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