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“Barbara Corcoran’s gift to staffers is massages, manicures, pedicures.” Read more AKPC_IDS += "2600,";

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“The Pacific Palisades home of another old-time icon Charles Laughton is the site of Barbara Corcoran’s infomercial for an exercise machine she co-owns.” Read more AKPC_IDS += "2604,";

Barbara Corcoran is turning the tables on “Shark Tank.” Instead of listening to entrepreneurs’ pitches, the real estate mogul is making her case to ABC executives in an effort to get a second season order for the Mark Burnett reality series. During its 14-episode run, viewership hovered at a mediocre 5 million viewers per episode. In anticipation of the network’s final decision on Monday, Corcoran — one of the series’ five investor “sharks” — whipped up a 340-page color brochure filled with statistics and testimonials about the businesses that she personally invested in after they appeared on the show. She says she’s sent eight copies of the books to network execs, hoping to “Let them walk in the shoes of the entrepreneurs they were helping . . . being a good guy, not just doing a good show on TV,” she says. “I was trying to appeal to their Americanism — let the good guy win, everybody deserves a break, any of those slogans that perhaps they’re too removed from by just analyzing numbers and deciding what goes and what stays.” Read more AKPC_IDS += "2602,";