our next guest is almost undoubtedly the most prolific Arbiter of Elegance in the world of
our times uh the most popular of her several books and videotapes is this one am I holding it up yet
no this one right here it's called weddings ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Martha Stewart
how are you fine welcome to the show Martha Martha you know we see we see a lot of you on television
these days with these Kmart commercials you have an affiliation with Kmart I do now I think a lot
of people would think that that's an odd kind of combination do you does it strike
you as being odd not at all I'm enjoying it tremendously what's the purpose of it well the
purposes that everybody who shops at Kmart and there's about 77 million people a month
shopping there is that right 77 million a month yes and uh they want beautiful things and I'm
trying to get really gorgeous things into the store well what are they doing in Kmart
all right what's what you mean I have nothing against Kmart possible things but if that's
if they're if they in fact are looking for beautiful things and let's face it who isn't
but now you're so it will be the place to go for beautiful things it certainly is the place
really have you ever been in a camera you've seen my sheets
you have a line of sheets my first products were sheets and um they're just selling like hot cakes
um well you know how about how about a line of hot cakes
we're working on that too but and let me ask you one more question then we'll go on to other things
here do you ten years ago uh when you were at your home in Connecticut did you ever think
that you would have an affiliation with Kmart uh no I didn't think about it yeah but it's working
out just fine fantastic now tell me about the book you've ever been in the camera oh sure
you know when I'm at home on a weekend and I say to myself beautiful things and then
the next thing you know
from Kmart looking at a hoe or something which camera do you go to oh the one just down the road
great yeah but anyway now this this is weddings now tell people what you've done here uh and what
you do and if could you do a wedding for me I absolutely could what would that entail well
um you would consult with me because I'm not catering anymore I used to k i catered lots
of those weddings in that book but I literally means just the food or the food and the flowers
or it used to be just the food but now it's uh the food the flowers the music and but
I'm doing the Consulting now and I could tell you everything you'd want to know about how to
do your own wedding right but what do you need are you planning a wedding well I've had I had
one you know what my first wedding and I've never mentioned this my first marriage I just eloped me
and the girl just we took off and uh are you sorry no I don't know she was a nice girl what do you
mean by that no but were you sorry Martha I meant were you sorry that you didn't have a really big
beautiful elaborate wedding no because I think we're fixing no no that would make me really
self-conscious I think it's just like here I am I'm a bone head come on in watch me get married
you know and then people they feel obliged to put on nice clothes and show up with gifts and
stuff and and a lot of that stuff's coming from Kmart I don't want that
I'm sorry I I'm sorry I I know I'm not being fair I don't know why not you can get anything at Kmart
um so what else do you do besides consult weddings well I write books lots of books
yeah we have we have a sample of the kind of stuff you have here that's that's a lot of a
lot of work has gone into that yep and um those are those are new CBS Masterworks these are on
the CDs Now Yep CDs and tapes and this one is the Sunday brunch album I'm giving you the music that
you would like this is brunch here at a brunch yeah what do we got here Baroque music ZZ Top
a little pull shape or something um but then uh uh how can I make
my life more enjoyable if I would you know well do you like to give parties
questions I wanted to ask all right ask me something ask me some questions I mean these
are problems that people are always writing to me or asking me okay ask me for example
um what if your guest of honor dies the night before a party
if your guest of honor has passed away the night before and you've planned this elaborate
party with uh a great big tent and a band and uh everybody's come from all over the world to your
party for this person what would you do well uh I make sure you had excellent ventilation
you know this is one of those nights I'm I feel badly for you I'm sorry I've just been nuts here
no it's been fantastic I love Richard Lewis and I love um Donna Summer Henry Stern won't be here
you know well I'm sorry but you were sort of mean because he was sitting there listening and
we were just wondering who was going to be cut and do something attention customers attention
we'll be right back Friday I want you to make love to me passion becomes Obsession
when dynasties John James and Susan Lucci are haunted by her past thinking of dropping out
of school what for a career in minimum wage your school is tough but 30 or 40 Years of lousy jobs
is tougher get an education you've got a shot at being anything you want drop out you've got
a shot at regretting it for the rest of your life don't be a fool stay in school the more
you know about what's really good for you the more you know you belong in school so stay there
okay listen I'm I'm sorry you had to be here for this you know what I mean
I'm happy to be here and I'll try and be nicer the next time all right we have to go goodbye