The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewarts Entertaining
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- In the first two decades of her media career, Martha Stewart’s lavish, ruthlessly overachieving approach to the domestic arts made her a totalizing cultural figure.
- The insider-trading scandal that landed her in prison, in 2004, dinged her reputation, paving the way for a winking, irreverent iteration of her persona.
- In the past decade, Stewart has cannily embraced her status as a kitsch object.
- She hangs out with Snoop Dogg and poses for Sports Illustrated yet can seemingly do napkin origami in her sleep.
To most readers, this will seem like fantasy. To Stewart, it was a snapshot of real life. She grew up in a large, middle class Polish American family in New Jersey, with parents who often received gu [+4007 chars]
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