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Article: Be-Marthas, do-Marthas and beyond Martha; add a Christmas special to her omnimedia empire.(Martha Stewart)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- December 11, 1995
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BECAUSE LARRY KENNEDY HAS BEEN driving Martha Stewart wherever she wants to go for 14 years, he has a few thoughts on the secrets of her success. Besides the fanatical thoroughness, and the insomniac work habits, he says, "she's got a photographic memory--which I don't have." Damn. If only he had that photographic memory, Martha would be driving Larry from the "Today" show to his Fifth Avenue pied-a-terre. He'd be spending the weekend at the White House and running an estimated $200 million lifestyle empire, with his own magazine, TV show and crazed following. He'd know how to caramelize napkin rings.
We all think this way, lovers and haters of Martha alike. Her ...