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With Big Give, Oprah Shows Smaller Side

Reality charity show provokes sniffles, but writer calls it vain

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 21, 2008 6:26 PM CDT

(Newser) – The new ABC show Oprah’s Big Give might be exactly what it claims—an epically scaled, nurturing-obsessed cult of personality—but the format is old and unsuitable, Nancy Franklin writes in the New Yorker, and the star is self-obsessed. The competition charity program sometimes...   Read full story »

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