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...himself into a state of lasting disgust at the Marv Albert backbiting assault and underwear case, when one felt certain that Marv would (as he did) show up on Larry King, Letterman and Today to seek redemption by exposure? There was an exchange on the Today interview with Katie Couric that could be read as the clarifying moment of the entire century, let alone the past year, when Couric asked Marv why anyone should believe his version of the sordid events when he had already admitted lying to his former wife and fiance. Albert said, in effect, that while that...
...Katie Couric suggested that castration might be in order. That seemed a little extreme. What criminal outrage had reduced America's bouncy, breakfast-time kid sister to such a primitive fantasy? A serial child-rapist? An AIDS-carrying seducer infecting half of an upstate county's woebegone girls? No. This was serious. This was primal...
...Couric was interviewing Nicole Contos, 27, a Manhattan kindergarten teacher who was to have got married to a 35-year-old lawyer, Tasos Michael. Bills for the wedding, to be paid by Nicole's father, a businessman who owns the American Banana Co., were said to be running as high...
...seems to me that Nicole Contos' aborted wedding represents a minor but vivid defining moment in the battle between the sexes. Women who heard about the case--and after a while last week it was hard not to hear about it--tended to go atavistic, as Katie Couric did. A couple of women lawyers I informally consulted misplaced for the moment their respect for due process; they agreed with Couric, drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing...
...instead of earning appearance fees, she controls all advertising for her segment. The new daily show, which she owns outright, will follow cbs This Morning in most markets. "Sometimes you have to do things for an economic and brand sensibility," she says. "I have more fun with Katie [Couric] and Matt [Lauer]. But on CBS I got an amazing lead-in to my show. It only made sense." A new daily national radio show, askMartha, that reaches 63% of the listening population, was introduced the same day as her TV show, which complements Stewart's nationally syndicated newspaper column, called...