Lisa would kill me if I didn’t mention how thoroughly I enjoyed the Martha Stewart movie this week starring Cybill Shepherd. My favorite part, bar none, was right at the beginning, where they showed how particularly brittle Martha can be when she has kids as guests on her show. (I’ve even written about this before.) They handled that beautifully.
Overall, it was cartoony trash, but sublimely entertaining cartoony trash. Still, I don’t think they really got Martha’s personality correct. I always thought of her as less of a “smile on-camera but scream off-camera” type and more of a “cold distant perfectionist who likes decoupage more than people but tries to paste on a smile when necessary” type. Get my meaning?
As I’ve said in the past, I really admire Martha in a lot of ways, even if I wouldn’t want to have her over for dinner. She’s one of those people who can manage to re-make the world through sheer force of will. Those people lose a lot, they hurt those close to them (and themselves most of all). But they change the world, for better or worse.
I think trying to get at the “real” Martha would have made a great movie too. But it wouldn’t sell.
You didn’t happen to tape it did you? I screwed up my VCR. . . again.
I was a little disappointed in the movie. I admit that I’m prejudiced against Martha Stewart and I expected (and wanted) the movie to be quite nasty, but even I thought it was a total character assassination.
Would the Queen of Good Taste really shout from her car, “I’m going to write a letter to your parents and tell them you’re a WHORE!” (Letter to her parents? The hell?)
Nik: No tape. Sorry.
Not totally related, but part of that movie was filmed on the campus of Dalhousie University here in Halifax. I blogged about it at the time:
http://textstyle.ca/blog/archives/000183.html
I wish that you had taped it – Chris was deeply upset when he realized that it was on last week when he wasn’t home.
I need to go now. I want to focus on my salad.