Article: No sugar-coating the situation.(Bakery Foods / Sweet Goods)

Maybe Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp. (KKD) needs late-night TV's Jay Leno or David Letterman to turn its image around. Heck, heading to the talk-show circuit for a little self-deprecation has done the trick for a ton of media darlings who have fallen from grace because they'd done something wrong, silly or stupid.

Well, it's worked in most cases. Most recently, love-struck Tom Cruise did it to try to explain his goofy couch-jumping episode on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." (Of course, now if he could only shut up, people wouldn't be so sick of him.) Phone-throwing Russell Crowe reconnected with his audience on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Yes, heading to the ...

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