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  • July 2008

    • 10 Ways to Say 'I'm Not Gay'

      newser  |  Radar  |  Jul 22, 08 1:23 PM CDT

      10 Ways to Say 'I'm Not Gay'

      Star Jones' ex, Al Reynolds, used YouTube to make it official—he is not gay, just "kind of soft." His coming-in announcement prompts Radar to list the 10 best moments in defensive heterosexuality. Oprah Winfrey on rumors about her and Gayle King: ''Oh, please.'' Jake Gyllenhaal: "I can honestly say I've never been attracted to a man sexually, but I don't think I'd be afraid of it if it happened." More »

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      Oprah Winfrey  • Tom Cruise  • gay  • Mel Gibson  • homosexual  • heterosexual  • Jake Gyllenhaal  • Mike Piazza  • SpongeBob

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • Oprah's Slipping—or TV Is

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 26, 08 12:17 PM CDT

      Oprah's Slipping&mdash;or TV Is

      Oprah’s still the queen, but her ratings have been sliding, the New York Times reports. Her flagship show's average ratings have fallen 7% this year, continuing 3 straight years of slipping; her reality show, Oprah’s Big Give , lost about a third of its audience over the course of its single run. Meanwhile, O magazine has lost 10% of its circulation. More »

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      Oprah Winfrey  • TV ratings  • daytime talk show  • Oprah's Big Give

    • ABC Schedules Only 2 New Fall Shows

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 13, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      ABC Schedules Only 2 New Fall Shows

      ABC will debut just two new shows in the fall, partly because of the writers' strike. One will be a reality show produced by Ashton Kutcher that tests family members on how well they know each other. The other, Life on Mars , is based on a British show about a police detective transported back to 1973, the AP reports. ABC also is picking up Scrubs from NBC, but the network said Oprah Winfrey has decided not to bring back Oprah's Big Give . More »

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      television  • Oprah Winfrey  • ABC  • Oprah's Big Give

    • Oprah Also Turned On Rev. Wright

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  May 4, 08 3:19 PM CDT

      Oprah Also Turned On Rev. Wright

      Like Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey attended Jeremiah Wright's church but ultimately gave up on it, Newsweek reports. She went for nearly a decade, starting in 1984, and wasn't surprised by his angry sermons. But "Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost," a friend said. "She's always been aware that her audience is very mainstream, and doing anything to offend them just wouldn't be smart." More »

    • James Frey Returns, Like It or Not

      newser  |  Vanity Fair  |  May 2, 08 4:32 PM CDT

      James Frey Returns, Like It or Not

      James Frey regrets nothing. In an interview with Vanity Fair to promote his new novel, Bright Shiny Morning , the author discusses the 2006 controversy regarding his "memoir," A Million Little Pieces , and how he was vilified by the media and humiliated by Oprah Winfrey. "I've said all along that I never wanted my books published as memoirs," he tells the magazine. More »

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      scandals  • Oprah Winfrey  • James Frey  • A Million Little Pieces  • Oprah's Book Club

    • Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 1, 08 3:47 PM CDT

      Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

      Barbara Walters has revealed she had a long affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, America’s first elected black senator. In a bombshell admission on a forthcoming episode of Oprah , the grande dame of TV anchors says the married Brooke—a moderate Massachusetts Republican who served in 1967-79—was “exciting” and “brilliant,” the AP reports. More »

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      Oprah Winfrey  • affair  • Barbara Walters

  • April 2008

    • David Blaine Breaks Breath-Holding Record

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 30, 08 12:11 PM CDT

      David Blaine Breaks Breath-Holding Record

      David Blaine broke the world record for holding one’s breath today when he was submerged for 17 minutes and 4 seconds during a taping of Oprah. The endurance artist looked relaxed emerging from a water-filled sphere, the AP reports. Blaine had undergone simulated altitude training and pure oxygen treatment to prepare for the feat. The previous record was 16 minutes, 32 seconds. More »

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      celebrity  • Oprah Winfrey  • Guinness Book of World Records  • magic  • magician  • breath  • David Blaine

    • Not Again! Cruise Back to Oprah

      newser  |  MSNBC  |  Apr 25, 08 10:13 AM CDT

      Not Again! Cruise Back to Oprah

      What hopping mad announcement does he have now? Tom Cruise will return to the Oprah Winfrey Show for the first time since his notorious couch-jumping, Katie-Holmes-crazed fiasco in 2005, MSNBC reports. In addition to a studio interview, the two-part show, planned for May sweeps, will tour his Telluride mountain getaway, People notes. Read: possible cameos by Holmes or daughter Suri. More »

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      celebrity  • Oprah Winfrey  • Tom Cruise  • interview

    • Next for Blaine: Breath-Holding Mark, on Oprah

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 22, 08 2:10 PM CDT

      Next for Blaine: Breath-Holding Mark, on Oprah

      David Blaine, the magician and "endurance artist" is training to break the human breath-holding record April 30 on Oprah . He's already done it 16 minutes, 9 seconds in a test run, John Tierney reports in his New York Times science blog. New techniques have made it possible for the untrained to hold their breath longer than thought possible in the past. More »

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      celebrity  • Oprah Winfrey  • David Blaine

    • First Preggers Guy: It's My Right to Have Baby

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Apr 4, 08 7:41 AM CDT

      First Preggers Guy: It's My Right to Have Baby

      A pregnant transgendered man always wanted to have a baby and kept his uterus so he could do so, he told Oprah Winfrey yesterday. The 34-year-old man, who's expecting in July, had his breasts removed years ago and underwent hormone treatment to change his sex. He decided to step up and be the "mom" when his wife learned she could not become pregnant. More »

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      pregnancy  • Oprah Winfrey  • baby  • transgender  • sex change

    • Oprah Dedicates Program to Her Late Dog

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 2, 08 3:00 AM CDT

      Oprah Dedicates Program to Her Late Dog

      Oprah Winfrey's show on Friday will be in honor of her late cocker spaniel, Sophie, AP reports. The show features a probe into "horrific" abuses at puppy breeding mills, according to the correspondent who investigated the piece. Sophie gave me 13 years of unconditional love," said Winfrey. "She was a true love in my life." More »

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      television  • dog  • Oprah Winfrey  • talk show  • puppy mills  • puppies

  • March 2008

    • With Big Give , Oprah Shows Smaller Side

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  Mar 21, 08 6:26 PM CDT

      With Big Give , Oprah Shows Smaller Side

      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 reduced to her tears, Franklin allows, but mastery of manipulation is no great shakes in and of itself. More »

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      Ford  • reality TV  • Oprah Winfrey  • ABC  • philanthropy  • competition  • James Frey  • Oprah's Big Give

    • Poo-Poo to Navel-Gazing: Look Lower

      newser  |  Salon  |  Mar 12, 08 9:00 PM CDT

      Poo-Poo to Navel-Gazing: Look Lower

      Poop isn't just joke fodder, Leslie Crawford writes in Salon, it can also be a vital way to assess your health and well-being, and Americans are being prompted to scrutinize (and rhapsodize over) what they produce in a variety of media. From Oprah to the popular book What's Your Poo Telling You? , the virtues of a good bowel movement might never have been more widely extolled. More »

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      health  • Oprah Winfrey  • toilet  • bathroom  • poop  • toilet paper

    • Oprah Makes Giving Competitive

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 2, 08 12:42 PM CST

      Oprah Makes Giving Competitive

      Heavyweight philanthropist Oprah Winfrey will outsource giving to a whole new level tonight: Her new ABC reality show, “Oprah’s Big Give,” makes charity a competition. Contestants compete to raise money for needy folks and causes, and each week the lowest-earner is given the boot, reports the New York Times. But warm fuzzies aside, even a blogger for Oprah’s hometown Chicago Tribune notices “something off-putting” about competitive giving. More »

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      Hurricane Katrina  • reality TV  • Oprah Winfrey  • ABC  • philanthropy  • Oprah's Big Give  • Survivor  • Extreme Makeover

  • February 2008

    • Fey's 'SNL' Spot May Boost Clinton

      newser  |  Time  |  Feb 26, 08 4:00 PM CST

      Fey's 'SNL' Spot May Boost Clinton

      She didn't rap over a stump speech, but Tina Fey's rousing defense of Hillary Clinton on "Saturday Night Live" may help the underdog candidate challenge Barack Obama's domination of viral videos, writes Time TV blogger James Poniewozik. Fey's lampooning of the arguments against Hillary, including that she's a bitch—"Yeah, she is. So am I. You know what? Bitches get things done!"—is "the kind of thing a campaign needs," Poniewozik writes. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Oprah Winfrey  • Saturday Night Live  • Rush Limbaugh  • Tina Fey

    • Juno Barbs Prompt Protests

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Feb 14, 08 4:02 PM CST

      Juno Barbs Prompt Protests

      Angry viewers are lobbying to axe "hurtful" lines from the trailer of quirky adoption flick Juno before showing it at the Oscars, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The offending scene—televised at the Golden Globes—has the title character quipping the Chinese "give away babies like free iPods." Screenwriter Diablo Cody says she was showcasing Juno's ignorance in a "wince-inducing, quintessentially teenage way." More »

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      China  • protests  • Oprah Winfrey  • Oscar  • adoption  • Juno  • Golden Globes  • foreign adoptions  • Diablo Cody  • Ellen Page  • Jennifer Garner  • offensive

    • HS Kids Take Color-Blind View of History

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Feb 4, 08 1:20 PM CST

      HS Kids Take Color-Blind View of History

      Martin Luther King Jr. is the most famous American in history, according to 2,000 high school students asked to name the top 10, reports USA Today. In a dramatic break from the "dead white male" paradigm, African Americans, women, and Arfican-American women dominated the list, with Rosa Parks second, Harriet Tubman at No. 3, and Oprah Winfrey No. 7. More »

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      list  • Oprah Winfrey  • Martin Luther King Jr.  • Marilyn Monroe  • Albert Einstein  • Benjamin Franklin  • Rosa Parks  • Thomas Edison

    • Maria Shriver Backs Obama

      newser  |  Sacramento Bee  |  Feb 4, 08 4:01 AM CST

      Maria Shriver Backs Obama

      Another member of the Kennedy clan, California's First Lady Maria Shriver, made a shock endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday, three days after husband Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Republican John McCain. Shriver's announcement electrified Obama supporters at a UCLA rally where Oprah, singer Stevie Wonder and Shriver's cousin Caroline Kennedy appeared, reports the Sacramento Bee .      More »

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      Barack Obama  • endorsement  • Arnold Schwarzenegger  • Oprah Winfrey  • first lady  • UCLA  • Stevie Wonder  • Maria Shriver

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