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Martha Stewart Barred From UK; English Cutesy Merchants May Suffer
The UK does not want Martha Stewart no matter how many lines of crockery she's designed for Wedgwood! The UK Border Agency has barred the felonious lifestyle queen from entering the country, presumably because of her criminal ways here in America. It's admirable consistency for the agency—famous star criminals must be kept out along with the common scum. But it may turn out to be a crippling blow for England's Toad-in-the-hole industry: More »
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Dumps CEO
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the domestic queen's massive publishing and television conglomerate, has just announced that its CEO, Susan Lyne, has (ahem) "stepped down." Replacing Lyne will be two co-CEOs—an equivocation that often signals that a company was not well prepared for an executive transition. Lyne came on as head of the company when Martha Stewart went to jail in 2004, and has presided over a big drop in MSLO's stock price. But while her departure may have been inevitable, it's not necessarily a productive move. The magazine industry is in an irreversible decline, and no number of firings will change that fact. Sorry! More »
Stars Are Just Like Us
TV homemaker and ex-con Martha Stewart met lots of equally famous people at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the highlight of the DC social calendar, and she has the photos. Cambodia-bomber Henry Kissinger is always "jovial and friendly," apparently.
TV homemaker and ex-con Martha Stewart met lots of equally famous people at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the highlight of the DC social calendar, and she has the photos. Cambodia-bomber Henry Kissinger is always "jovial and friendly," apparently.
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Sad Martha Stewart's Dead-Dog Blogging is Trying to Break Our Heart
Who would have guessed that Martha Stewart's late dog Paws would look like this? We had her pegged as more of a Labrador person. But her doggie died, and she's grieving via a photoessay on her blog. It's a truly stark portrait of grief and the saddest thing ever. More »
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Not that we're merchants of gloom, the latest figures for magazine advertising are dismal. Tallies of the number of pages carrying advertising in the first quarter, an early indicator of publishing woes, are down by double-digit percentages at news weeklies such as Time and business magazines such as Business Week. The only surprise is that Keith Kelly, who published the figures in today's Post, didn't tweak Mort Zuckerman, proprietor of a rival tabloid. Zuckerman's pet news magazine, US News & World Report, fell 37.5%. One perky spot: Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, now the last best hope of the magazine industry, as well as frustrated cookie-bakers.
Baking Tips Now Last Hope Of Magazine Industry
Not that we're merchants of gloom, the latest figures for magazine advertising are dismal. Tallies of the number of pages carrying advertising in the first quarter, an early indicator of publishing woes, are down by double-digit percentages at news weeklies such as Time and business magazines such as Business Week. The only surprise is that Keith Kelly, who published the figures in today's Post, didn't tweak Mort Zuckerman, proprietor of a rival tabloid. Zuckerman's pet news magazine, US News & World Report, fell 37.5%. One perky spot: Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, now the last best hope of the magazine industry, as well as frustrated cookie-bakers.
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Sex Writer Licks Martha Stewart's Cupcake
Erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, formerly of the Village Voice, has a cupcake blog, which recently landed her on Martha Stewart's TV show. The recent editor of bondage compilations "Yes, Sir" and "Yes, Ma'am" never explicitly discussed sex on the domestic diva's prim broadcast, and it would probably be childish to read too much into the fact that Bussel's favorite cupcake is "from Kumquat Cupcakery, it's really salty," or that her co-blogger likes to share her own, spicy-but-subtle cupcake with friends, or that everyone ends up eating Martha's cupcake at her insistence. So just enjoy the completely innocent video of cupcake talk after the jump. More »
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Serial Marm
[Martha Stewart holding enormous scissors at Macy's yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin] More »
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Martha And Emeril Combine To Control All American Food
The celebrity foodies among you will be pleased and scared to know that homebot Martha Stewart is "poised for multi-platform expansion opportunities" now that she has acquired Emeril Lagasse's New Orleans-based food empire for a cool $50 million. BAM!, we say predictably. The only losers in the deal? Those Penn students who were complaining a few weeks ago about a false rumor that the entertaining multimillionaire Emeril would be their commencement speaker this year. Instead, they got stuck with boring multibillionaire Mike Bloomberg. Enjoy the following clip involving Emeril and bologna, back before he totally sold out: More »
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Martha Stewart's Blog Is Messing With Us On Purpose
"Come see the pussy willows in and around my home!" encourages Martha Stewart in her new blog entry, which we suspect is an elaborate joke by highly paid consultants to circumvent any mocking of Martha by making her own content patently ridiculous on its own, and seeding it with such obvious joke opportunities that to point them out would just make you look like a bully. "Jodi was diligently keeping a watchful eye on my pussy willow shrubs, waiting for the catkins to be open just so," adds fake Martha. Yes, of course. Well-played. It's like trying to think of sarcastic comments about an Edward Gorey book; impossible, because the grotesquerie is already in there. Can you look at the following three totally unedited captions and photos from the Martha blog and conclude anything else? More »
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"Do your clients know you're this much of an asshole?"
Greg Lindsay, the former Women's Wear Daily gossip columnist, was dragged by his wife onto Martha to talk to the homemaking maven about their wedding preparations. (He discovered a fabulous naval dockyard in Bermuda in which the wedding party took shelter from the storm.) A savvy media operator, Lindsay knew he'd come to regret the appearance, and he has. The clip, shown here, gave publicist Reggie Cameron an opportunity to mock the neatnik newlywed: "Greg is married. That never stops being funny to me." Greg responded in the comments, but that wasn't the end of it. As the following email exchange shows, scratch any relationship between media and public relations and you'll discover this: barely concealed mutual contempt. More »
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There Are No Real People
Party planning, magazine editing and TV appearances blur into eachother for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the homemaking maven's media conglomerate. Writing in 2002, media reporter Greg Lindsay was impressed by Stewart's multiplicity of talents: "Soccer moms and magazine execs alike revere homemaking doyenne Martha Stewart for her WASPy Zen approach to decorating, entertaining and blazing the celebrity editor trail." Greg, and his new wife have learned well from the mistress of synergy. Their wedding in Bermuda last year was nearly rained off, but they turned near-disaster into a joyful celebration, and a television appearance on Martha. Here, after the jump, is the clip of plain Greg and Sophie being interviewed by the homemaking queen: Greg explains how he found a "fabulous" naval dockyard in Bermuda to host the wedding after a storm forecast disrupted plans for an open-air ceremony, sounding like any other touch-fey husband. Incidentally, Sophie is Sophie Donelson, who was a senior editor at Blueprint, a Martha Stewart title, before it folded two months ago. The moral of this story? There are no real people in Manhattan: only media people playing real people for other media people who play real people. More »
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Martha Stewart holds a contest for her minions
If you work for Martha Stewart, you probably already entered "The Big Idea," a company-wide contest "that gives staff the opportunity to share their own ideas for the future of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia." Already proposed: a "special publication about collecting." You can help decide who wins. The world of Martha Stewart is not very democratic, as you can "vote as many times as you'd like over the next week." What kind of ideas—just how big are we talking here? More »
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Martha Stewart Shows Off Prison Crafts
On her Christmas show, Martha Stewart produced the ceramic Nativity Scene she crafted while she was in prison. The other inmates had to pick just one figure a month to fire 'n' glaze—but MarStew did the whole thing in her five month on the inside. It's cute at the end, she asks her mother in the audience if she likes it and you can tell Martha Sr. is just thinking, "Bitch, are you really asking me if I'm proud of the damned brown clay figures you made while you were in jail?" But actually? They're pretty impressive!
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'Blueprint' Folds, Very Few Mind Particularly
Bid adieu to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's Blueprint magazine, according to a memo just sent and to Fishbowlny. Apparently no one read the thing. Not surprising, considering its title, which always invoked to us an awkward how-to-be-fulfilled guide for the 25-45 architect set, rather than the "fresh, fun guide to personal style" it purportedly was. A memo sent to employees this morning says the last standalone issue will be next year's "January/February" issue. "There will be a reduction in staff associated with not publishing Blueprint as a full-frequency magazine, but we expect to re-assign a core team of employees to existing businesses and new projects at MSLO." Lucky ducks! "We believe Blueprint will be more sustainable if leveraged as part of the established Martha Stewart Weddings franchise. Both appeal to women at a similar life stage and we believe this strategy will allow us to better take advantage of the synergistic relationship between the two publications." Synergistic! Leveraged! Sustainable! Franchise! Ah, the empty marketing buzzwords used to confuse the recipients of bad news. More »
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Martha Stewart's Totally Sirius Christmas Tree
As Page Six noted this week, the 36th-floor midtown lobby of Sirius Radio had a disastrous Christmas tree—until Martha Stewart came in herself and fixed it all up. And here it is! Can't wait to see how fellow Sirius host Judith Regan defaces this tree when she comes in to work next week. More »
When we were discussing what celebrities blog about, we somehow neglected Martha Stewart, and this is why we shouldn't have: "This most unusual perennial, Gomphocarpus physocarpus, is called the balloon plant. I like to call it hairy balls. A species of milkweed, it is often used as an ornamental plant and is striking in cut arrangements." [The Martha Blog]
