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Trader Adam Levinson Gets 300 Million to Stick With Fortress Investment Group
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Police Investigate Clark Rockefeller Aka Christopher Chichester in California Cold Case
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Martha Stewart’s daughter, Alexis, to roast Mom on new show
This fall, a new cable show called Whatever, Martha! will poke fun at old episodes of Living with Martha Stewart, which ran from 1991 to 2004.
The lead poker will be Martha’s own daughter, Alexis Stewart.
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Despite their connections to Stewart and her company, the co-hosts aren’t planning on going easy on the homemaking icon.
While her daughter told Martha Stewart she “wouldn’t be mean,” Alexis Stewart divulged to the New York Times that “nothing is off limits, including her mother’s clothes, fastidiousness and habit of mixing sexual innuendo with her household hints.”
Whatever, Martha! is expected to appeal to a younger audience. Martha Stewart’s previous attempt to boost the number of fans in their early 20s and 30s was not a success. The magazine Blueprint, geared for younger readers, was put out by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, but lasted only a year before it folded. The last issue of Blueprint ran in January/February 2008.
Stewart and Koppelman Hutt currently co-host Whatever…with Alexis & Jennifer, a radio-show that runs on satellite radio provider Sirius. As co-hosts, their show’s website describes them as “having no shame, no edit button and no ability to be politically correct,” an attitude they plan on taking to their television show.
Whatever, Martha! debuts on cable channel, Fine Living, on Sept. 16th.
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Oprah Winfrey + Barack Obama = 1 million votes (Muckety)
What’s the value of a celebrity endorsement in a political campaign?
In the case of Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, about a million votes.
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Oprah Winfrey“We think people take political information from all sorts of sources in their daily life,” Moore told The New York Times. “And for some people Oprah is clearly one of them.”
Economists Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Moore tracked celebrity endorsements back to the 1920 presidential campaign and concluded that Winfrey was “a celebrity of nearly unparalleled influence.”
Although she has not confirmed any plans to attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Winfrey has reportedly rented a Colorado home for $50,000 per week.
Other celebrities expected to participate in the convention include Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, Spike Lee, Warren Beatty, Susan Sarandon, Forrest Whitaker, Scarlett Johansson and Kanye West.
Stevie Wonder, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow and the Black Eyed Peas are scheduled to perform at convention- related events.
Obama already owes much to the stars – and not only to Oprah. Gwyneth Paltrow produced a video backing the campaign and Hollywood fundraisers have contributed more than $4 million to his campaign.
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Oprah Winfrey Barack Obama 1 Million Votes
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Elizabeth Edwards, a public figure in her own right, steps out of the spotlight
One of the likely outcomes of John Edwards’ bad judgment is the muting – at least temporarily – of his wife’s public voice.
Over the past year, Elizabeth Edwards, battling an inoperable cancer diagnosed in 2007, has become an outspoken advocate for universal health insurance and a critic of John McCain’s health care proposals.
She is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she blogs occasionally for the center’s Wonk Room.
Elizabeth EdwardsEdwards campaigned extensively for her husband in both 2008 and 2004. Like her husband, she is an attorney, with a degree from the University of North Carolina Law School. She is also a trustee of the Wade Edwards Foundation, named for their son, who died in 1996, at age 16.
Her memoir, Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers, was a best seller.
Last night she released a statement about her husband’s admission to having an affair in 2006:
John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007.
This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well.
She asked for privacy, and an end to the “voyeurism” that has included “news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway.”
Both Elizabeth and John Edwards have said their marriage will endure. Yet John Edwards appeared alone last night in his interview with “Nightline.”
Edwards said he’d asked his wife not to accompany him, because “she should not be involved in protecting me from whatever the consequences of this are.”
As the Atlantic reports today, several aides had expected Elizabeth Edwards would speak at the Democratic convention on Monday. But party officials said no invitation had been extended to either John or Elizabeth Edwards.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told reporters in Hawaii that the couple had decided not to participate in the convention. “If I’m not mistaken I think that…the Edwards family indicated that they probably wouldn’t be attending the convention,” Obama said.
Elizabeth Edwards a Public Figure in Her Own Right Steps Out of the Spotlight
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