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Martha Stewart is making her own Netflix documentary
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Martha Stewart is making her own Netflix documentary

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Martha Stewart has been to one lately. Spilling the tea TO The New Yorker about what happened to her and Ina Garten. Then duplicating his memories of the events on WWHL. Now giving a scathing review of Marthathe new Netflix doc about her, at new york Times. Conformable NYT, Stewart unleashed “about 30 minutes of almost non-stop” about what she didn’t like about RJ Cutler’s approach to her life. “RJ had full access and really used very little,” she said. “It was just shocking.” Among the things she had beef with were her musical choices, her framing today as a frail old lady, and the overemphasis of her 2004 insider trading trial and prison sentence. “It wasn’t that important. The trial and actual incarceration were less than two years out of a life of 83 years. I thought it was a vacation, to tell you the truth,” Stewart said. “The process itself was extremely boring. Even the judge fell asleep. RJ didn’t even introduce that. The judge was asleep on the bench. I wrote it in my journal every day.”

Maybe we can forgive someone who fixates on that process. It it is many people’s top thought when they think of Martha Stewart. But the other important thing – her friendship with Snoop Dogg — was given a brief job on the soundtrack. “I said to RJ, ‘An essential part of the movie is that you sing rap music,'” she said. “Dr. Dre will probably score, or Snoop or Fredwreck. I said, “I want that music.” And then he gets a bad classical score that has nothing to do with me.” There’s a Snoop song over the end credits, but it’s not enough for Martha!

Stewart also criticized the way Cutler filmed it. “He had three cameras on me. And he chooses to use the worst angle,” Stewart said. “And I said, ‘Don’t use that angle! It’s not the prettiest angle. You had three rooms. Use the other angle. He wouldn’t change that.” She also objected to the last scene, in which Stewart kind of pokes around in her garden. Apparently she had just had Achilles tendon surgery. “Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of these. And he refused,” she said. “I hatred those last scenes. I hate them.” But other than that, a pretty cool movie.