![]() Ruven Afanador/Sports Illustrated Stewart was a “thirst trap” before the term was invented, and her Turkey Hill estate was the center of an “adventurous” scene. Martha Stewart and her husband Andy were “adventurous,” according to Jerry Oppenheimer’s best-seller, “Martha Stewart: Just Desserts: The Unauthorized Biography.” Getty Images Stewart is now Sports Illustrated’s oldest ever swimsuit edition cover girl, posing at 81 for the annual magazine. She calls being a sex symbol “fantastic.”īut Martha’s decision to pose where once young bikini-clad beauties like Kate Upton, Tyra Banks and Christie Brinkley graced SI’s cover should not come as a surprise to Martha insiders. Like Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson in the film Sunset Boulevard, Martha, 81, loves being on camera, looks spectacular, and probably believes as Desmond did, “The stars are ageless, aren’t they.” ![]() Stewart’s love life is quite a hot topic after Sports Illustrated swimsuit coverįor decades, Martha Stewart, the “diva of domesticity,” showed us how to entertain fabulously.Īnd now America’s hottest octogenarian’s latest foray in entertaining is taking it all, or mostly all, off as a cover girl for Sports Illustrated’s new sexy annual swimsuit issue. Martha Stewart’s New Jersey childhood home lists for $600K SI Swimsuit cover model wasn’t allowed to wear a bikini until 18 Hendrik Hertzberg, I hear, loves running around naked.Martha Stewart: Employees should be available ‘anytime,’ but don’t want to work I hope the New Yorker takes note of this, I really do. Gillette is sponsoring a very well-made video mash-up page that lets you make little clips of your favorite swimsuit models lolling about on the beach you can post your homemade videos to your blog or social networking page, thereby increasing visits to SI's site. Every time you play a video, click a photo, do anything, you see an ad. Budweiser, Taco Bell, Honda, and Gillette made big buys. In that year, the company expects 250 million pageviews, and the the site is packed with ads. Despite my advice to dudes of the world, the company is probably not going to lose many newsstand sales for portability - portability is an important feature for the subject matter at hand - many will want the paper version of the swimsuit issue.īut unlike many other magazines, SI is wisely not letting exaggerated fears of reduced newsstand sales stop it from making buckets of money online.Ī Time rep pointed out to me that the magazine is only on sale now, but the site will be up all year. The SI site is a very good example of how the magazine industry can transition to the Web. I won't lie, the purpose of this post is to mention swimsuit models, but I won't let you escape without a bit of new-media biz talk. Close the blinds, I'm in my home - you can't find a stitch of clothes on me. She'd put clothes on me, I'd take them off. According to my mom, she could not keep clothes on me when I was a little girl. ![]() I'm running around naked, jumping on beds, cooking dinner, whatever, running around naked all the time. I love being naked! Oh my god I'm always naked around my house. If you're a serious scholar of swimsuit fashion trends - or, instead, of body painting, which to believe the magazine is an increasingly popular way of going to the beach - you'll find a lot more to float your boat on the Web than in the mag.įor instance, there are more than 60 video clips of the models, including this one, in which the very well-put-together Melissa Haro declares, Visiting this site, I can't see why anyone would want the glossy version. The site's motto is "every model, every shoot with video," and that's what it delivers. The cover for this year's issue, which features supermodel and Democratic party superdelegate 1 Marisa Miller, was unveiled on Letterman last night the issue hits newsstands today.īut the real action isn't on newsstands. The annual SI Swimsuit issue is a powerful force in the magazine industry it does terrifically well for Time Inc., SI's corporate parent, reaching 70 million or so readers every year and selling tens of millions of dollars of ad pages. Note: This Machinist post is a public-service announcement to folks who consider the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition the publishing event of the year (others, click here).ĭudes: Save your $3.99 for another Red Bull and vodka, because you can get every picture from SI's swimsuit issue - more than 1,500 pictures, plus videos, interviews, a desktop calendar, and, hottest of all, a list of swimsuit retailers - on the amazingly comprehensive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2008 Web site. ![]()
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