"No, absolutely not," she said. "I did a good thing for other people. I did this because it's the right thing to do. Me going and helping has nothing to do with the fact that there's a crisis in the world, there's a financial crisis in the world.
"Constellation is not a bad company. They didn't do anything illegal or fraudulent. ... If people want to be judgmental about the way we help others, shame on them."
Based on a British show by the same name, the program is meant to offer more than Prize Patrol excitement.
It's also billed as a window on poor Americans - for the millionaires walking a mile in their Wal-Mart shoes, and for viewers, who might be inspired to help in more modest ways.
"If you open your eyes and you look around, there are so many opportunities to help people," Shattuck said.
"And you don't have to have a lot of money to do it."
Catch a movie, catch the bouquet
The Senator Theatre marquee will read Until Death Do Us Part. The crowd will be treated to a short movie and concessions. And when it's all over, they'll toss popcorn at the bride and groom.
Sarah Jarrell and Chris Contos tie the knot tomorrow at the Art Deco cinema, where they had their first movie date, back in 2004.
The film: John Waters' A Dirty Shame.
Jarrell, a surgical nurse, and Contos, a chemist, aren't film fanatics. But they enjoy movies and were looking for a non-church setting that still had an aisle.
"We're playing it up in subtle ways," Jarrell said of the movie theme.
"We're not going over the top with plastic Oscar statues."
But there will be movie posters featuring the bride and groom. A short film they made. And soda and popcorn (unbuttered, so Jarrell's "old-Hollywood-inspired" gown isn't stained), if anyone wants that at 11 a.m.
The Senator has played host to one or two weddings before, but this is the first in more than 15 years.
Owner Tom Kiefaber said patrons are always telling him how the theater played a role in their romantic lives. Sometimes more than he wants to know.
"First meeting with their beloved, first time holding hands, first date, first kiss and beyond" he said. "All the bases have been run at the Senator over the years in some fashion.
"Thankfully, the walls of our mezzanine skyboxes can't talk."
Connect the dots
David Kestenbaum, the NPR science reporter and Baltimorean, alerts me that the Web page for Baltimore City's Board of Elections misspells "summary." Twice. As in, "Non technical summery of Statewide question 2." Let's hope that slots money really does go to education. ... So there I am, in the Arbutus Giant the day after elections, and who's in line right in front of me? Bob Ehrlich Sr. The clerk was saying how sorry she was that she couldn't vote for Andy Harris. (She doesn't live in the 1st.) I asked Senior's take on the elections: "What'd you think?" His reply: "I've stopped thinking."
