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“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.

But “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart” includes enough of a praiseworthy viewpoint for the audience to recognize the double standard to which she was subjected in her public life.

“We have to be able to talk about it as being a really well-regarded, praiseworthy, honorable path to choose to be in the trades,” he said.

Such mythmaking adds to the public's belief in the possibility of the American dream and the praiseworthy egoism of genius.

Allow me to single out a few others in the large and praiseworthy cast.