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"People who feel guilty for not taking their idealism farther still come up to me and tell me that I was the symbol of what they were supposed to do," she said. But she is well aware that others, who villianize her as a bad girl whose jail sentence was commuted by Jimmy Carter in 1979 because of her family's prominence, think she should remain invisible. "I find it strange for people to think that after being kidnapped I should remain in hiding the rest of my life," she said. constant annoyance. Still, it's hard to resist.

Last year, she played a perky suburban mother on Nickelodeon's sitcom The Adventures of Pete and Pete. By that time, she had spent more than a decade as the famously stay-at-home Connecticut wife of her former bodyguard Bernard Shaw, who is now in charge of security at the Hearst Corp. Going for the theatrical Her childhood home in Hillsborough, was not one in which any theatrical ambitions were encouraged. "Saying that I wanted to be an actress," she said, "would have been like saying I wanted to be a whore 'Mom, Dad, I want to be a whore when I grow up, Her parents, Catherine and Randolph Hearst, assiduously avoided controversy at home. "My parents raised us to be vague," she said.

"Later I found out that my grandmother was a showgirl. My grandfather saw her performing in New York and sent her flowers backstage." When, at 19, she was kid people say mean things behind your back anyway." Adding new roles Her novel about the death of a Hollywood producer, Thomas Ince, right after a wild party on the yacht of William Randolph Hearst is based on a real incident. But then, Shaw, who wrote the book with Cornelia Frances Biddle, a fellow blueblood and former soap opera actress, is more intent on acting than on writing. She has already played campy cameo roles as a school crossing guard in Cry Baby and a fatally misaccessorized juror in Serial Mom, both movies by John Waters, a close friend. Waters' trademark is his subversive depictions of American pop culture and its icons.

Shaw, of course, is one of the biggest icons of them all. If that role is thrust upon you, you may as well have a sense of humor about it. It was not lost on audiences that Shaw, whose trial on bank robbery charges captivated the country in 1976, appears in demure roles in courtroom scenes in both Waters movies. And it must also be a surreal Hearst Shaw the publicity for From $1,095 Per Month her mystery novel, Murder at San Simeon (Scribner, $23). Since her daughters are now 11 and 15, Shaw is re-entering the work force, it seems.

Her line of work? Being a celebrity. On a recent morning at the Edwardian Room of the Plaza, she raised an aristocratic, manicured hand and dug into her bacon and eggs. "I guess I'm supposed to pick at my food," she said, "but it looks so good." Shaw doesn't stand on ceremony. But then, having just been grilled by Howard Stern, why bother? Less than an hour before, Stern had asked her on his live radio show what she was wearing when she was raped in a closet by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. She handled him with staggering equanimity and told him she had on the blue bathrobe she was kidnapped in.

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