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Aired March 04, 2005 - 13:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Fifty-thousand dollars, that's the reward set today by the FBI for information leading to the arrest of a federal judge's family members. These sketches are of the two so- called people of interest seen near the home on Monday of Judge John Humphrey Lefkow's Chicago home on Monday. Judge Lefkow found the bodies of her husband and her mother. They had both been shot.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now a dreadful reminder of what can happen when man and wild animals mix company. A California man is in critical condition today with massive injuries to his face, limbs and body. His attackers, two chimpanzees. St. James Davis and his wife were visiting a primate sanctuary near Bakersfield when two chimps suddenly broke from their cages, went after Davis, and this gets pretty graphic, chewed off much of his face and nearly severed a hand and a foot.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PATRICK FOY, CALIF. DEPT. OF FISH & GAME: The owners of this particular chimp was being housed at this facility, even though the owners weren't there, but they visited it regularly, and this happened to be one of their visits. They brought the chimp cake, allegedly. And for whatever reason, the other chimps managed -- we're not sure how they managed to escape. But that's when shortly thereafter, that's when the whole incident ensued.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Man. The attacking chimps were shot and killed. It's not clear what set them off. Primate experts say people often underestimate the strength and chimpanzees and misread their body language.

Here's another unsolved mystery of nature. More than 70 rough- tooted dolphins beached themselves all at once on sand bars off the Florida Keys. Their plight has sparked a large-scale volunteer effort to try to get them back out to deep water. Several of the dolphins have died of dehydration. Marine biologists are simply stumped as to why these normally deep water mammals swam up so close to land. A Florida fishery source says dolphins are known to beach themselves when they're sick or disoriented, but not in this number.

PHILLIPS: Straight ahead, Martha Stewart is not the first public figure to clean up her image. From Ashlee Simpson to Janet Jackson, what stars should and shouldn't do in trying to get a second chance. I'm going to talk with one media strategist who says it's all about honesty. And still to come, good news for those of you looking for a new job. We'll explain.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Martha Stewart says her time behind bars was life altering and life affirming. Now, many are betting it will also lead to a big comeback for the lifestyle guru and her company. There are plenty of precedents. Some other celebrities with scandals to their names are now bigger than ever. Others couldn't recover. CNN's Paula Zahn takes a look.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAULA ZAHN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Martha is just the latest celebrity who has fumbled and is trying to make a make a recovery.

ASHLEIGH SIMPSON, ENTERTAINER: I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song.

ZAHN: Over the year, there have been many big gaffes, bad behavior.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is there any further argument and/or statements on behalf of the defendant?

ZAHN: And embarrassing indiscretions.

JIMMY SWAGGART, TELEVANGELIST: I have sinned against you, my lord.

ZAHN: Handling the fallout can make the difference between a bump in the road and a career dead end.

Hugh Grant's arrest in 1995 for soliciting sex from Divine Brown could have been the kiss of death for his career.

JAY LENO, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": What the hell were you thinking?

VORHAUS: What worked for Hugh Grant is he went on national television. He literally ate crow. I mean, he said, "Look, I messed up. Forgive me," and now he's gone on. And he was able to connect with the audience that he wanted to connect with.

ZAHN: Without a hitch, Hugh Grant's gone on to make more movies. Janet Jackson could have learned something from him. Jackson's encounter with David Letterman after her so-called "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl didn't go as smoothly.

DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, "LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN": That's almost malfunctioning, isn't it?

VORHAUS: What she tried to do was she tried to manipulate the viewing audience into a stunt to create attention, which she did. The problem is it backfired, and she didn't want to admit it when she went on Letterman or anyone else. And it was tough for her to really connect to anyone outside of her fan base.

ZAHN: Defiance also doesn't win you any brownie points.

PETE ROSE, FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER: Well, regardless of what the commissioner said today, I did not bet on baseball.

ZAHN: After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose finally admitted that he bet on baseball. Rose, who was banned from the game for his behavior, hopes to one day be reinstated. He talked about second chances when I interviewed him last year.

ROSE: I know there are some people who will never forgive me. I understand that. I understand that, because I was wrong.

JEFFREY SONNENFELD, YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: It was the delay in coming clean that really hurt him. Pete Rose needed to move a lot faster and crisper. And instead, by giving false explanations, it only confused people more and made them trust him less.

ZAHN: Like Martha, a number of the rich and famous have faced big trials, even jail time. It's made some of them even stronger, like Michael Milken, the Wall Street wizard who fell from grace in the late '80s. After serving his time, Milken earned kudos for his work with prostate cancer research.

But for hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley, jailed for tax evasion, the outcome was different.

SONNENFELD: There never was that sense of contrition, that sense of candor and authenticity about her. She seemed to come out just as angry as she went in.

ZAHN: But Martha can learn from many others who've successfully picked up the pieces and moved on with their lives.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: From time to time, I have been called the comeback kid.

ZAHN: Even former president, Bill Clinton.

VORHAUS: Here's a guy who got himself in trouble, apologized and didn't look back. He said, "I made my mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. And I'm going to go on and do great things."

What Martha has to do, she has to be willing to go out and tell the story from this new chapter. There has to be a sense that we all believe that she's in some way changed, that she's going to continue to contribute and that she really has learned a lesson in some way.

ZAHN: A recipe for a good comeback.

(END VIDEOTAPE) PHILLIPS: Well, the public is already seeing a new Martha Stewart, slimmer, smiling, relaxed. She chatted with are reporters outside her home in Bedford, New York this morning. The subject, cappucino.

But Stewart is also speaking out in other ways. In a statement posted on her Web site, Stewart says about prison, "You can be sure I will never forget the friends I met here, all that they have done to help me over these five months, their children and the stories they've told me.

For more on her image repair, let's turn to media strategist Robbie Vorhaus, who joins us live from New York.

Good to see, Robbie.

ROBBIE VORHAUS, Hi, Kyra. Good to see you.

PHILLIPS: OK, so if you read her statement, and it goes on to say "Right now, I'm thrilled to be returning to my more familiar life. My heart is filled with joy at the prospect of the warm embraces of my family, friends and colleagues. Certainly there is no place like home." OK, Martha, AKA Dorothy?

VORHAUS: There's no place like home. She is Dorothy. Every single thing that Martha Stewart does is perfectly, perfectly timed, it's nuanced and she is comparing herself to Dorothy. She has gone down the yellow brick road, she has met the wicked witch of the west, she's met her friends along the way. And now, there is no place like home.

PHILLIPS: So, basically, she's branding herself again already?

VORHAUS: Oh, she's -- her machine -- remember, we all talk about Martha Stewart. But Martha Stewart is an empire. Martha Stewart is worth more than some small countries. And she's got the government -- she's got her employees there, acting like a government, working behind her, and everything is perfectly timed. And you know something? She does it and she does it well.

PHILLIPS: Well, if you take a look at her Web site -- we were looking at it earlier this morning, we were talking about the one picture, there she was, with a hen. Now it's changed already in the past couple hours. There she is, you know, making bread. Already it's like nothing ever happened. Here it is.

VORHAUS: Well, that's interesting, Kyra. This morning, there was a hen that she was holding. A hen could be construed as two ways. The metaphor for the hen could either be fertility, a renewal, spring, that's why Easter has bunnies, chickens, et cetera. On the other hand, it could construe laying an egg. So now she's kneading bread, which is a lot more nuanced.

PHILLIPS: We're reading into all the symbolism.

VORHAUS: Well, trust me, with Martha Stewart, everything is a symbol. Everything is a metaphor. She's just like the White House. They're not going to let anything get out that hasn't been looked and thought about in terms of a nuance or a metaphor or symbol.

PHILLIPS: All right. What does she -- what should she not do? What does she need to avoid? What does she need to be careful of? Because it seems like she's on a roll here. All the photo ops already, the helicopter helicopters following her around her estate as she feeds her horses, her Web site is up and running.

VORHAUS: Well, she is one of the most powerful human beings on the planet. She's certainly one of the richest. And we're all very interested to see a couple of things. Number one, is she sorry? Is she going to demonstrate a sense of humanity? And I think we're seeing that. I mean, she has the choice of either being the queen of mean or the queen of our hearts. I think that what we're seeing with Martha is a gentler smile, a more peaceful smile.

Look, prison is the ultimate time-out. She has gone to prison, she's paid her dues. Now she's going to be in confinement, you know, in her home for five months, but able to go to work, et cetera. But I think that if Martha comes out and has a gentle smile and, possibly, the best thing would be to do Letterman and to do the top ten ways to stylize an ankle bracelet.

PHILLIPS: Hey, that's a pretty good idea. You could work it for Letterman.

VORHAUS: That's right. All she needs to do is smile. Martha needs to do what she's doing now and to be the victor, not the victim. And all she needs to say I've learned and let's move on.

PHILLIPS: That's interesting. A lot of people want to see her as a scapegoat and sort of watch her crash and burn. It's kind of having a reverse effect, at least right now.

VORHAUS: Well, those people are jealous. Though anyone -- I mean, wouldn't we all like to have that much money, to be able to have that much power?

PHILLIPS: Be able go to jail, come back, be even maybe richer than before.

VORHAUS: Well, that was her choice. But she's now paid her price and she's back. Let's watch her.

PHILLIPS: All right. Robbie Vorhaus, we will be watching her. Probably too much. Thanks, Robbie.

VORHAUS: OK, Kyra, good to see you.

PHILLIPS: Good to see you.

HARRIS: Martha Stewart may not be the only piece of American pop culture in need of a makeover. Coming up in the next hour of LIVE FROM, why this woman's outraged by the hip-hop industry's portrayal of women and what she is going to try to do to change it. And up next, four drug injections and 100 shots to the heart later. How one heart attack patient proves persistence pays off.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Her shoe collection made her an infamous icon of excess in the '80s. In today's edition of CNN's anniversary series "Then and Now," Imelda Marcos makes no apologies for her fashion flare.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, is also known "the iron butterfly." An ex-beauty queen, Marcos brought glamour and song to the presidential palace in 1965. By the end of her husband's 21-year dictatorship, Imelda's personal and public extravagance was causing an outrage. A popular uprising in 1986 forced the Marcoses into exile.

Imelda left behind closets stuffed with rows and rows of designers gowns and a now-legendary designer shoe collection, so many that if she changed pairs every day, even after three years, she still wouldn't have worn all of them. She now says it was her way of sharing her wealth.

IMELDA MARCOS, FMR. FIRST LADY OF THE PHILLIPINES: By giving it to the people, it is really flaunting it to the world. But if you were keeping it like a miser, nobody will see what you have accumulated.

CORRESPONDENT: Nowadays you could say that Imelda Marcos collects lawsuits, 900 civil cases and pending prosecutions alleging everything from corruption to human rights abuses. She's 75 years old, lives in Manila and frequently meets with her team of lawyers. She hasn't been convicted of any crime so far, and is unrepentant about alleged excesses.

MARCOS: I'm not only extravagant, I'm not only excessive. I give it all.

CORRESPONDENT: By the way, Imelda now keeps active as a spokeswoman for the Philippine shoe industry.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: If you're just tuning in, you're watching breaking news coverage. Martha Stewart makes an appearance. Not only makes an appearance, delivers organic cocoa to the photographers...

HARRIS: Oh, you're kidding me.

PHILLIPS: ... stalking her outside her estate. You're looking at taped turnaround here. New video. Breaking news coverage. Martha Stewart. She speaks to the crowd. Let's listen in.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MARTHA STEWART: I'm glad to be home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Tony, she's happy to be home. You heard it first here on CNN.

HARRIS: She's actually outside of her home now, right? Once she has the anklet on, the ankle bracelet, she won't be able to do that. If she does, she'll get what, an electric shock or something?

PHILLIPS: It's not beeping or shocking, because she's still 100 feet within her home. But, Tony, we're missing the whole point here, she got her cappucino. She got her cappucino. I told you we're going to watch...

HARRIS: She is working it.

PHILLIPS: She's working it. She's working it. Organic cocoa for the reporters. They were loving it. She got her cappucino. Stay tuned for more breaking news coverage of the Martha Stewart stock watch.

HARRIS: I guess it's the story of the day, right?

Moving on now.

It is a scene you probably watched countless times in movies and medical dramas. A patient whose heart has stopped, a flat line on the monitor, doctors shocking the heart back into normal rhythm. Now meet a man for whom one, two, or even 10 shocks weren't enough.

CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You're looking at a man doctors say almost died 100 times. On November 20, 54-year-old Jim McClatchy was rushed into the hospital after his wife found him on the floor of his house, totally unresponsive and blue.

MCCLATCHEY: And the first thing I remember is waking up and having my wife standing, there talking on her cell phone to 911.

GUPTA: McClatchey suffered from ventricular fibrillation, more commonly known as cardiac arrest. By the time he reached the operating room table, he'd be in and out of consciousness.

MCCLATCHEY: And I remember seeing the heart monitor. It was kind of amazing to watch your own heart. And it's doing this, and then it starts doing this. You know you have about three or four seconds before you're going to black out. DR. CHARLES WILMER, CARDIOLOGIST: He was so unstable that he would literally be shocked, go back into regular rhythm long enough to start to wake up, and then he would fibrillate lose consciousness. And we'd have to shock him again.

GUPTA: Doctors tried everything they could to revive McClatchey, pumping in at least 4 kinds of medications to help him. But the best tool in their arsenal, a defibrillator they used 100 times to revive his failing heart.

WILMER: We really were sort of thinking on the go, how can we save this man's life? We've tried all the proven therapies. He's not living. So, let's take a chance, let's make a step, see if we can advance the science.

GUPTA: The chance they took was to continue shocking McClatchey. After a 48-hour period, he narrowly pulled through. By the time it was over, he'd been shocked so many times, doctors say he sustained second degree burns on his chest.

Many doctors would have given up, but no one is happier than McClatchey that they stuck with him.

MCCLATCHEY: Not only do I feel fortunate I survived, I feel fortunate it happened. I mean, I really have been given a great gift. I've had an experience very few people get to have.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

HARRIS: Coming up on our second hour of LIVE FROM, more on how Martha Stewart's time in prison may be beneficial to her bank account.

PHILLIPS: It already seems to be.

HARRIS: Yes.

PHILLIPS: LIVE FROM's hour of power begins right after this.

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Aired March 4, 2005 - 13:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Fifty-thousand dollars, that's the reward set today by the FBI for information leading to the arrest of a federal judge's family members. These sketches are of the two so- called people of interest seen near the home on Monday of Judge John Humphrey Lefkow's Chicago home on Monday. Judge Lefkow found the bodies of her husband and her mother. They had both been shot.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now a dreadful reminder of what can happen when man and wild animals mix company. A California man is in critical condition today with massive injuries to his face, limbs and body. His attackers, two chimpanzees. St. James Davis and his wife were visiting a primate sanctuary near Bakersfield when two chimps suddenly broke from their cages, went after Davis, and this gets pretty graphic, chewed off much of his face and nearly severed a hand and a foot.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PATRICK FOY, CALIF. DEPT. OF FISH & GAME: The owners of this particular chimp was being housed at this facility, even though the owners weren't there, but they visited it regularly, and this happened to be one of their visits. They brought the chimp cake, allegedly. And for whatever reason, the other chimps managed -- we're not sure how they managed to escape. But that's when shortly thereafter, that's when the whole incident ensued.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Man. The attacking chimps were shot and killed. It's not clear what set them off. Primate experts say people often underestimate the strength and chimpanzees and misread their body language.

Here's another unsolved mystery of nature. More than 70 rough- tooted dolphins beached themselves all at once on sand bars off the Florida Keys. Their plight has sparked a large-scale volunteer effort to try to get them back out to deep water. Several of the dolphins have died of dehydration. Marine biologists are simply stumped as to why these normally deep water mammals swam up so close to land. A Florida fishery source says dolphins are known to beach themselves when they're sick or disoriented, but not in this number.

PHILLIPS: Straight ahead, Martha Stewart is not the first public figure to clean up her image. From Ashlee Simpson to Janet Jackson, what stars should and shouldn't do in trying to get a second chance. I'm going to talk with one media strategist who says it's all about honesty. And still to come, good news for those of you looking for a new job. We'll explain.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Martha Stewart says her time behind bars was life altering and life affirming. Now, many are betting it will also lead to a big comeback for the lifestyle guru and her company. There are plenty of precedents. Some other celebrities with scandals to their names are now bigger than ever. Others couldn't recover. CNN's Paula Zahn takes a look.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAULA ZAHN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Martha is just the latest celebrity who has fumbled and is trying to make a make a recovery.

ASHLEIGH SIMPSON, ENTERTAINER: I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song.

ZAHN: Over the year, there have been many big gaffes, bad behavior.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is there any further argument and/or statements on behalf of the defendant?

ZAHN: And embarrassing indiscretions.

JIMMY SWAGGART, TELEVANGELIST: I have sinned against you, my lord.

ZAHN: Handling the fallout can make the difference between a bump in the road and a career dead end.

Hugh Grant's arrest in 1995 for soliciting sex from Divine Brown could have been the kiss of death for his career.

JAY LENO, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": What the hell were you thinking?

VORHAUS: What worked for Hugh Grant is he went on national television. He literally ate crow. I mean, he said, "Look, I messed up. Forgive me," and now he's gone on. And he was able to connect with the audience that he wanted to connect with.

ZAHN: Without a hitch, Hugh Grant's gone on to make more movies. Janet Jackson could have learned something from him. Jackson's encounter with David Letterman after her so-called "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl didn't go as smoothly.

DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, "LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN": That's almost malfunctioning, isn't it?

VORHAUS: What she tried to do was she tried to manipulate the viewing audience into a stunt to create attention, which she did. The problem is it backfired, and she didn't want to admit it when she went on Letterman or anyone else. And it was tough for her to really connect to anyone outside of her fan base.

ZAHN: Defiance also doesn't win you any brownie points.

PETE ROSE, FORMER PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER: Well, regardless of what the commissioner said today, I did not bet on baseball.

ZAHN: After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose finally admitted that he bet on baseball. Rose, who was banned from the game for his behavior, hopes to one day be reinstated. He talked about second chances when I interviewed him last year.

ROSE: I know there are some people who will never forgive me. I understand that. I understand that, because I was wrong.

JEFFREY SONNENFELD, YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT: It was the delay in coming clean that really hurt him. Pete Rose needed to move a lot faster and crisper. And instead, by giving false explanations, it only confused people more and made them trust him less.

ZAHN: Like Martha, a number of the rich and famous have faced big trials, even jail time. It's made some of them even stronger, like Michael Milken, the Wall Street wizard who fell from grace in the late '80s. After serving his time, Milken earned kudos for his work with prostate cancer research.

But for hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley, jailed for tax evasion, the outcome was different.

SONNENFELD: There never was that sense of contrition, that sense of candor and authenticity about her. She seemed to come out just as angry as she went in.

ZAHN: But Martha can learn from many others who've successfully picked up the pieces and moved on with their lives.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: From time to time, I have been called the comeback kid.

ZAHN: Even former president, Bill Clinton.

VORHAUS: Here's a guy who got himself in trouble, apologized and didn't look back. He said, "I made my mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. And I'm going to go on and do great things."

What Martha has to do, she has to be willing to go out and tell the story from this new chapter. There has to be a sense that we all believe that she's in some way changed, that she's going to continue to contribute and that she really has learned a lesson in some way.

ZAHN: A recipe for a good comeback.

(END VIDEOTAPE) PHILLIPS: Well, the public is already seeing a new Martha Stewart, slimmer, smiling, relaxed. She chatted with are reporters outside her home in Bedford, New York this morning. The subject, cappucino.

But Stewart is also speaking out in other ways. In a statement posted on her Web site, Stewart says about prison, "You can be sure I will never forget the friends I met here, all that they have done to help me over these five months, their children and the stories they've told me.

For more on her image repair, let's turn to media strategist Robbie Vorhaus, who joins us live from New York.

Good to see, Robbie.

ROBBIE VORHAUS, Hi, Kyra. Good to see you.

PHILLIPS: OK, so if you read her statement, and it goes on to say "Right now, I'm thrilled to be returning to my more familiar life. My heart is filled with joy at the prospect of the warm embraces of my family, friends and colleagues. Certainly there is no place like home." OK, Martha, AKA Dorothy?

VORHAUS: There's no place like home. She is Dorothy. Every single thing that Martha Stewart does is perfectly, perfectly timed, it's nuanced and she is comparing herself to Dorothy. She has gone down the yellow brick road, she has met the wicked witch of the west, she's met her friends along the way. And now, there is no place like home.

PHILLIPS: So, basically, she's branding herself again already?

VORHAUS: Oh, she's -- her machine -- remember, we all talk about Martha Stewart. But Martha Stewart is an empire. Martha Stewart is worth more than some small countries. And she's got the government -- she's got her employees there, acting like a government, working behind her, and everything is perfectly timed. And you know something? She does it and she does it well.

PHILLIPS: Well, if you take a look at her Web site -- we were looking at it earlier this morning, we were talking about the one picture, there she was, with a hen. Now it's changed already in the past couple hours. There she is, you know, making bread. Already it's like nothing ever happened. Here it is.

VORHAUS: Well, that's interesting, Kyra. This morning, there was a hen that she was holding. A hen could be construed as two ways. The metaphor for the hen could either be fertility, a renewal, spring, that's why Easter has bunnies, chickens, et cetera. On the other hand, it could construe laying an egg. So now she's kneading bread, which is a lot more nuanced.

PHILLIPS: We're reading into all the symbolism.

VORHAUS: Well, trust me, with Martha Stewart, everything is a symbol. Everything is a metaphor. She's just like the White House. They're not going to let anything get out that hasn't been looked and thought about in terms of a nuance or a metaphor or symbol.

PHILLIPS: All right. What does she -- what should she not do? What does she need to avoid? What does she need to be careful of? Because it seems like she's on a roll here. All the photo ops already, the helicopter helicopters following her around her estate as she feeds her horses, her Web site is up and running.

VORHAUS: Well, she is one of the most powerful human beings on the planet. She's certainly one of the richest. And we're all very interested to see a couple of things. Number one, is she sorry? Is she going to demonstrate a sense of humanity? And I think we're seeing that. I mean, she has the choice of either being the queen of mean or the queen of our hearts. I think that what we're seeing with Martha is a gentler smile, a more peaceful smile.

Look, prison is the ultimate time-out. She has gone to prison, she's paid her dues. Now she's going to be in confinement, you know, in her home for five months, but able to go to work, et cetera. But I think that if Martha comes out and has a gentle smile and, possibly, the best thing would be to do Letterman and to do the top ten ways to stylize an ankle bracelet.

PHILLIPS: Hey, that's a pretty good idea. You could work it for Letterman.

VORHAUS: That's right. All she needs to do is smile. Martha needs to do what she's doing now and to be the victor, not the victim. And all she needs to say I've learned and let's move on.

PHILLIPS: That's interesting. A lot of people want to see her as a scapegoat and sort of watch her crash and burn. It's kind of having a reverse effect, at least right now.

VORHAUS: Well, those people are jealous. Though anyone -- I mean, wouldn't we all like to have that much money, to be able to have that much power?

PHILLIPS: Be able go to jail, come back, be even maybe richer than before.

VORHAUS: Well, that was her choice. But she's now paid her price and she's back. Let's watch her.

PHILLIPS: All right. Robbie Vorhaus, we will be watching her. Probably too much. Thanks, Robbie.

VORHAUS: OK, Kyra, good to see you.

PHILLIPS: Good to see you.

HARRIS: Martha Stewart may not be the only piece of American pop culture in need of a makeover. Coming up in the next hour of LIVE FROM, why this woman's outraged by the hip-hop industry's portrayal of women and what she is going to try to do to change it. And up next, four drug injections and 100 shots to the heart later. How one heart attack patient proves persistence pays off.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Her shoe collection made her an infamous icon of excess in the '80s. In today's edition of CNN's anniversary series "Then and Now," Imelda Marcos makes no apologies for her fashion flare.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, is also known "the iron butterfly." An ex-beauty queen, Marcos brought glamour and song to the presidential palace in 1965. By the end of her husband's 21-year dictatorship, Imelda's personal and public extravagance was causing an outrage. A popular uprising in 1986 forced the Marcoses into exile.

Imelda left behind closets stuffed with rows and rows of designers gowns and a now-legendary designer shoe collection, so many that if she changed pairs every day, even after three years, she still wouldn't have worn all of them. She now says it was her way of sharing her wealth.

IMELDA MARCOS, FMR. FIRST LADY OF THE PHILLIPINES: By giving it to the people, it is really flaunting it to the world. But if you were keeping it like a miser, nobody will see what you have accumulated.

CORRESPONDENT: Nowadays you could say that Imelda Marcos collects lawsuits, 900 civil cases and pending prosecutions alleging everything from corruption to human rights abuses. She's 75 years old, lives in Manila and frequently meets with her team of lawyers. She hasn't been convicted of any crime so far, and is unrepentant about alleged excesses.

MARCOS: I'm not only extravagant, I'm not only excessive. I give it all.

CORRESPONDENT: By the way, Imelda now keeps active as a spokeswoman for the Philippine shoe industry.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: If you're just tuning in, you're watching breaking news coverage. Martha Stewart makes an appearance. Not only makes an appearance, delivers organic cocoa to the photographers...

HARRIS: Oh, you're kidding me.

PHILLIPS: ... stalking her outside her estate. You're looking at taped turnaround here. New video. Breaking news coverage. Martha Stewart. She speaks to the crowd. Let's listen in.

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MARTHA STEWART: I'm glad to be home.

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PHILLIPS: Tony, she's happy to be home. You heard it first here on CNN.

HARRIS: She's actually outside of her home now, right? Once she has the anklet on, the ankle bracelet, she won't be able to do that. If she does, she'll get what, an electric shock or something?

PHILLIPS: It's not beeping or shocking, because she's still 100 feet within her home. But, Tony, we're missing the whole point here, she got her cappucino. She got her cappucino. I told you we're going to watch...

HARRIS: She is working it.

PHILLIPS: She's working it. She's working it. Organic cocoa for the reporters. They were loving it. She got her cappucino. Stay tuned for more breaking news coverage of the Martha Stewart stock watch.

HARRIS: I guess it's the story of the day, right?

Moving on now.

It is a scene you probably watched countless times in movies and medical dramas. A patient whose heart has stopped, a flat line on the monitor, doctors shocking the heart back into normal rhythm. Now meet a man for whom one, two, or even 10 shocks weren't enough.

CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the story.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You're looking at a man doctors say almost died 100 times. On November 20, 54-year-old Jim McClatchy was rushed into the hospital after his wife found him on the floor of his house, totally unresponsive and blue.

MCCLATCHEY: And the first thing I remember is waking up and having my wife standing, there talking on her cell phone to 911.

GUPTA: McClatchey suffered from ventricular fibrillation, more commonly known as cardiac arrest. By the time he reached the operating room table, he'd be in and out of consciousness.

MCCLATCHEY: And I remember seeing the heart monitor. It was kind of amazing to watch your own heart. And it's doing this, and then it starts doing this. You know you have about three or four seconds before you're going to black out. DR. CHARLES WILMER, CARDIOLOGIST: He was so unstable that he would literally be shocked, go back into regular rhythm long enough to start to wake up, and then he would fibrillate lose consciousness. And we'd have to shock him again.

GUPTA: Doctors tried everything they could to revive McClatchey, pumping in at least 4 kinds of medications to help him. But the best tool in their arsenal, a defibrillator they used 100 times to revive his failing heart.

WILMER: We really were sort of thinking on the go, how can we save this man's life? We've tried all the proven therapies. He's not living. So, let's take a chance, let's make a step, see if we can advance the science.

GUPTA: The chance they took was to continue shocking McClatchey. After a 48-hour period, he narrowly pulled through. By the time it was over, he'd been shocked so many times, doctors say he sustained second degree burns on his chest.

Many doctors would have given up, but no one is happier than McClatchey that they stuck with him.

MCCLATCHEY: Not only do I feel fortunate I survived, I feel fortunate it happened. I mean, I really have been given a great gift. I've had an experience very few people get to have.

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HARRIS: Coming up on our second hour of LIVE FROM, more on how Martha Stewart's time in prison may be beneficial to her bank account.

PHILLIPS: It already seems to be.

HARRIS: Yes.

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