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Speaking to Wall Street analysts last week, Martha Stewart forcefully stated that her controversial $228,000 sale of ImClone stock last December-a day before the company announced bad news about its promising cancer drug-was "proper and lawful." Her company also announced a 26% jump in ad pages for the July issue of Martha Stewart Living. Say this for the woman who turns old drawer pulls into fancy wine corks: She knows her audience. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, in which she has a 63% stake worth nearly $500 million, recovered to $15.97 Friday after a two-week...
...looked impossibly easy. It was not: six weeks of rehearsal before every film, dozens of takes, worn-out shoes, bleeding feet. In 1981, Astaire looked back on his career for a TIME story I wrote. (I've borrowed some of that piece for this one). He told Correspondent Martha Smilgis that making the Fred-and-Ginger films was like "running the four-min. mile for six months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal. But then you'd get in a winning groove - a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong. The choreography...
...followed. Goaded by the media coverage, detectives began reinterviewing people connected with the crime, gathering new evidence. By 1998 they had found enough to convene a grand jury. On Jan. 18, 2000, a judge indicted Michael, by then a 39-year-old husband and father, for the murder of Martha...
After the verdict, Judge John Kavanewsky denied Skakel bail and refused his request to address the court. Outside the courthouse, no one was celebrating. Martha's brother John called the victory hollow, saying: "It doesn't bring Martha back." Mickey Sherman, Skakel's lawyer, declared himself "bitterly disappointed" and discussed grounds for appeal. Said brother David: "Michael is innocent. I know this because I know Michael like only a brother does...
...York City. Waksal is accused of trying to unload his shares and telling two shareholders to sell their stock the day before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was rejecting ImClone's application for the approval of Erbitux. Waksal's close friend, American domestic guru Martha Stewart, sold her shares in the company just before the announcement but has denied that she was tipped...