Friday, February 6

Very Delicious Gossip - Things are finally getting juicy at the Martha Stewart trial. First off, we've now learned that Faneuil has "repeatedly used Ecstasy and marijuana, and that he has experimented with the party drug ketamine, or 'Special K,' and cocaine." No word as to which circuit parties said drugs may have been taken at. We also saw some email from Faneuil about his interactions with Ms. Stewart: "Martha yelled at me again today, but I snapped in her face and she actually backed down! Baby put Ms. Martha in her place!!!" Suuure you did, Baby.

It sounds like this line of questioning was intended to discredit Faneuil, but instead just made Martha out to be even more of a Cybill Shepard caricature: Stewart told the assistant that "she was going to leave Mr. Bacanovic and leave Merrill Lynch unless the hold music was changed" which caused jurors to break up in laughter at her arrogance.