Word: stewart
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...Stewart host. In fact, let Jon Stewart host every awards show. For anything. Ever. After a painfully dull monologue by Garry Shandling - who spent the entire time rocking wildly back and forth, as if he couldn't wait to dash off stage - Stewart killed with a you-can't-make-this-up highlight reel of TV news sensationalism over the war on terror (capped off with NBC News' Chris Jansing seriously asking an expert, "What can you tell us about Hispanic Muslims?"). "For too long," Stewart said, "the TV news industry has sacrificed its integrity for cheap entertainment value...
...Martha Stewart Living has revamped its long-running Calendar page, in which the homemaking guru recorded her day-by-day to-do list ("Dig and divide hostas"), replacing it with a more generic (and mostly empty) calendar. The change had nothing to do with her mounting legal troubles, Stewart claimed, telling the New York Times it was simply "time to evolve our calendar into something different." Some other ways her magazine has evolved...
ERBITUX Martha Stewart may have still more reason to regret selling her ImClone stock. In June, ImClone reported that its drug Erbitux, in combination with chemotherapy, reduced tumor growth in the colon up to 55%, putting the controversial drug on track for FDA consideration. Erbitux targets cancer cells by blocking their ability to absorb growth factors they need to develop. Trials for treating other tumors, including those in the lung, head and neck, are under...
...Universal Studios after the movie she worked on--Lloyd, the Hamster--flopped at the box office. Her dream project, a film adaptation of Don Quixote, is going nowhere. Her boyfriend Michael recently bailed on her. And she just noticed a mustache hair on her upper lip. "Jimmy Stewart," she writes to a friend, "had a helluva lot more to live for when he tried to off himself in It's a Wonderful Life...
Like other vertically integrated personalities with carefully crafted images--Oprah, Martha Stewart, Madonna, Sean (P. Diddy) Combs and Russell Simmons, plus product-endorsing athletes such as Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan--celebrity designers capitalize on the fact that popular approval equals influence, whether it's a book-club recommendation, a pistachio-colored pillowcase or a velour tracksuit...