>No, not sappy at all. I watched a TV bio of domestic arts diva
>Martha Stewart on E! last night (I've sunk that low), and all
>interviewees agreed on what nasty, cold, grasping, joyless
>individual she is -- a woman who destroyed her marriage and
>estranged her child by being such a greedy, ambitious, uncaring
>control freak. Rather than being the apotheosis of domestic
>contentment, her life presents a grotesque parody of it. MS, who
>came from nothing, is now worth $1 billion and owns eight houses;
>whatever she acquires is never enough, noted her brother, a
>seemingly level-headed guy who was interviewed on the show.
And anyone who works for her has to sign a nondisclosure agreement. So we don't even know the worst of it - though I get hints that it's pretty hellish.
Doug