Yes, Martha Fires Someone, but Pink Slip Is Scented: "These days, she is game for anything - including rapping with Diddy while wearing $8 million worth of bling from Harry Winston. (What are the chances that between a rapper and a Westport, Conn., caterer, it's the caterer who has done time?)
And on camera, Ms. Stewart laughs all the time, a fluty, infectious guffaw that only occasionally sounds forced. She is so relaxed and sunny that she could pass for any successful talk show host.
What makes her television shows hypnotic, however, is the occasional glimpse of the old Martha peeping through the insouciance - intense and instructional, even about the history of rap. 'I learned that 'Rappers Delight' by Sugar Hill Gang was the first rap single in 1979,' she explained before introducing Diddy. 'Rap was a word that originally meant talking to a girl, derived from conversation.'"
Just the other day, I was thinking that the only thing to to Poncho Day!, Yo! Martha Raps!, tap dancing, and the water-skiing bulldog named Martha Stewart would be a visit from Liza Minelli. Lo and behold, Liza stops by today (with Ben Vereen, no less)!
