(sigh)
I've been thinking about Martha Stewart a lot recently. Okay, okay, so I need to get a life, right?
Nah.
What I've been thinking though is that Martha has sold out, and that disturbs me. I realize she was faced with having to make some changes to the way she does business when she was released from prison, but what she's done is turn her successful television program into just another ennui-producing talk show. It sickens me.
Martha herself is not something most people would tune in to watch. Her personality is unbelievably bland and she is actually quite humorless. But blandness and stoicism were okay in her previous TV show because she was imparting culinary and design tips, not doing stand-up on open mike night. Her new show has incorporated "celebrities" into the mix, and she has deviated from what she does best. I can't watch any more. I'm a fan of her culinary knowledge, her decorating style, her organizational ideas. But I'm NOT a fan of Martha the person.
So, to use her OWN words, this is NOT "a good thing."
(sigh)
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