Oprah (71 page)

BOOKS:
Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Michael Olesker,
Tonight at Six
(Apprentice House, 2008); Bill Adler, ed.,
The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey
(Citadel Press, 1997).

ARTICLES:
David Folkenflik, “WJZ’s Sher Marks 25 Storied Years in TV,”
Baltimore Sun,
Oct. 18, 2000; Bill Carter, “ ‘People Are Talking’
:
A Breath of Hot, Stale Air,”
Baltimore Sun,
Aug. 15, 1978; Michael Hill, “ ‘People Are Talking’ Off to a Rough Start,” Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Aug. 15, 1978; Gerri Kobren, “Co-Hosts Love Their Work,”
Baltimore Sun,
Sept. 17, 1978; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,”
Time,
Aug. 8, 1988; David Rensin, “The Prime Time of Ms. Oprah Winfrey,”
TV Guide,
May 16, 1992; Chris Anderson, “Meet Oprah Winfrey,”
Good Housekeeping,
Aug. 1986; Academy of Achievement, “Oprah Winfrey Interview,” Feb. 21, 1991,
www.achievement.org
; Bill Carter, “Channel 13 Getting Over Its Morning Jitters,”
Baltimore Sun,
Aug. 23, 1978; Michael Hill, “Richard Sher: Life After Oprah,” Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Mar. 20, 1987; Margaret D. Pagan, “Oprah,”
Metropolitan,
Oct. 1979; Dave Koppel, “Newscaster Took Her Cue from Romance,” Fort Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel,
Oct. 10, 1997; Gary Ballard, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Drama-Logue,
Mar. 20–26, 1986; Liz Smith, “Oprah Debunks ’Em,”
Newsday,
July 28, 1997; P. J. Bednarski, “Oprah Winfrey Rides the Whirlwind,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 17, 1985; Patricia King, “Move Over, Phil Donahue—Here Comes Oprah,”
Family Circle,
Oct. 21, 1986; Jim Nelson and Barbara Sternig, “Talk
Show Star’s Wild and Wicked Childhood—Sister Reveals the Shocking Truth at Last,”
National Enquirer,
Mar. 20, 1990; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,”
Ms.,
Aug. 1986; Lisa DePaulo, “Oprah’s Private Life,”
TV Guide,
June 3, 1989; Julia Lawlor, “The Other Oprah,”
USA Weekend,
June 2–4, 1989; Jan Herman, “Sly Stallone Will Match Rocky Against Russkies,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 17, 1984; Cheryl Lavin, “Vital Statistics: Oprah Winfrey,”
Chicago Tribune
Sept. 7, 1986; Laura B. Randolph, “Networks Help Celebrities Deal with Fame and Pain,”
Ebony,
July 1990; Stephanie Mansfield, “And Now, Heeeeeeere’s Oprah,”
Washington Post,
Oct. 21, 1986; Judy Markey, “Brassy, Sassy Oprah Winfrey,”
Cosmopolitan,
Sept. 1986; Dana Kennedy, “Oprah Act Two,”
Entertainment Weekly,
Sept. 9, 1994; Kwaku Alston and Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Tina Turner,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
May 2005; Chrissy Iley, “The Power of Oprah,”
Daily Mail,
Oct. 14, 1989; “In Time of Trouble, Oprah Looks for Help from Above,”
Newsday,
July 14, 1987; Karen S. Peterson, “The Toast of Chicago TV Goes National,”
USA Today,
Sept. 18, 1986; “Off-Camera: The Living’s Convenient in Cross Keys,”
Baltimore News-American,
June 1, 1980; Bill Carter, “ ‘People Are Talking’ Flops as Syndicated Show,”
Baltimore Sun,
Sept. 7, 1981; P. J. Bednarski, “All About Oprah Inc.,”
Broadcasting and Cable,
June 24, 2005; Michael Hill, “ ‘People Are Talking’ Gains Some Limited Syndication,” Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Mar. 26, 1981; Bill Carter, “Can Oprah and Richard Hack It in Boise?”
Baltimore Sun,
Mar. 15, 1981; Chrissy Iley, “Grand Oprah,”
Daily Mail,
Feb. 18, 2006; Bob Burns, “Oprah’s Suicide Note Revealed,”
Globe,
Nov. 16, 1999; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Transcript, Oprah Winfrey Commencement Speech at Goucher College, May 24, 1981,
www.goucher.edu
; Bill Carter, (title unknown),
Baltimore Sun,
Feb. 24, 1982; Jon Anderson, “No Dog Days of August for Ch. 7’s New Chief,”
Chicago Tribune,
Aug. 16, 1983; Gretchen Reynolds, “Oprah Unbound,”
Chicago,
Nov. 1993; Peter Conrad, “The Divine Oprah,” London
Observer,
June 3, 1990; Kathleen Fury, “Oprah! Why She’s Got America Talking,”
TV Guide,
Mar. 5, 1988; Luther Young, “She’s Found Success by Just Being Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 27, 1985; Bill Carter, “Oprah Leaving Soon for Chicago,”
Baltimore Sun,
Oct. 19, 1983; Oprah Winfrey, “I Created This Happiness by Choice,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Mar. 2004; Oprah Winfrey, “Wind Beneath My Wings,”
Essence,
June 1989; “Tribute: A Salute to Dr. William F. Baker,”
Broadcasting and Cable
advertising supplement, May 28, 2007; Michael Olesker, “Today They Grieve for a Guy Who Made Folks Laugh,”
Baltimore Sun,
July 25, 1993; Sylvia Badger, “Local Stars Turn Out for Oprah’s Signing-Off Party,”
Baltimore News-American,
Dec. 14, 1983; Laura Charles, “ ‘Defector’ Oprah Gets Sweet Send-Off,”
Baltimore Sun,
Dec. 14, 1983.

DVD:
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set).

INTERVIEWS:
Barbara L. Hamm, July 23, 2007, and Aug. 2, 2007; Jane McClary, Nov. 6, 2009; Bob Leffler, Nov. 6, 2008; Dr. William F. Baker, Mar. 12, 2008, and Oct. 28, 2008; Dave Gosey, June 2007; Michael Fox, Jan. 17, 2007, and correspondence with Michael Fox, Dec. 10, 2007, Oct. 31, 2008, and Nov. 7, 2008; Judy Colteryahn, Mar. 16, 2008, and correspondence with Judy Colteryahn Mar. 17, 2008, Aug. 5, 2008, Aug. 6, 2008, Sept. 30, 2008; Eileen Solomon, Mar. 28, 2007; Susan Rome, Nov. 21, 2008; Ellen
Lightman, Nov. 21, 2008; Paul Dickson, Jan. 17, 2007; Beverly Burke, July 25, 2007; correspondence with Wayne Kabak, Dec. 18, 2008; Ron Shapiro, Aug. 6, 2007.

S
EVEN

RECORDS:
Documents in the case of
Randolph L. Cook v. Oprah Winfrey,
case no. 1:97-cv-00322, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; sample chapters from
The Wizard of O,
by Randolph Cook; transcript, testimony of Paul Natkin, on Aug. 15, 2000, in the case of
Paul Natkin and Stephen Green v. Oprah Winfrey
et al., case no. 1:99-cv-05367, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois.

BOOKS:
James “Quick” Tillis, as told to J. Engleman Price,
Thinking Big
(The LPG Group, 2000); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987).

ARTICLES:
Michael Sneed et al., “The Parking Plot,”
Chicago Tribune,
Mar. 20, 1985; Luther Young, “She’s Found Success by Just Being Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 27, 1985; Richard Roeper, “New Age Oprah Forgets Those Tacky Old Shows,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 1, 1997; Mel Novit, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Boston Herald,
Sept. 4, 1986; Grant Pick, “Oprah!”
Republic,
Jan. 1986; Patricia Sellers, “The Business of Being Oprah,”
Fortune,
Apr. 1, 2002; Robert Feder, “A Slimmer Winfrey Feasts on the Glory of Her Rich TV Deal,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Aug. 22, 1988; Kathy O’Malley and Dorothy Collin, “INC.”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 4, 1990; Fred Goodman, “The Companies They Keep,”
Working Woman,
Dec. 1, 1991; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,”
Woman’s Day,
Oct. 1, 1986; Jan Herman, “Sly Stallone Will Match Rocky Against Russkies,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 17, 1984; Stephen Hunter, “Oprah!”
Baltimore Sun,
Dec. 17, 1985; Judy Markey, “Brassy, Sassy Oprah Winfrey,”
Cosmopolitan,
Sept. 1986; JoAnn Harris, “ ‘Della’ Premiers Monday,”
Washington Post,
June 8, 1967; Robert Kurson, “The Silent Treatment,”
Chicago,
July 2001; Clarence Peterson, “Very Illuminated People,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 26, 1985; Robert Feder, “An Eyewitness Guide to Sprucing Up Channel 7,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 26, 1985; Maralyn Lois Polak, “Oprah Winfrey: So Much to Reveal,”
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine,
Oct. 12, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,”
Spy,
Dec. 1986; “Chicago’s Grand New Oprah,”
Newsweek,
Dec. 31, 1984; Michael Sneed and Cheryl Lavin, “A Superstadium?”
Chicago Tribune,
Jan. 27, 1985; Jon Anderson, “Oprah Winfrey Conquers Tonight Show Challenge,”
Chicago Tribune,
Jan. 31, 1985; P. J. Bednarski, “The Talk Show Diva Named Oprah,”
Channels of Communication,
Jan./Feb. 1986; Luther Young, “Oprah and Joan Square Off,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 31, 1985; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,”
Chicago Tribune,
Feb. 6, 1985; book chapters and introduction,
www.thewizardofo.com
; Sarah Gallick, “Keep Quiet!”
Star,
Feb. 18, 1997; “Oprah and Coke,”
Atlanta Daily World,
Feb. 12, 1995; Ann Witheridge, “Oprah Drug Nightmare,”
Star,
Jan. 31, 1995; Laura B. Randolph “Networks Help Celebrities Deal with Fame and Pain,”
Ebony,
July 1990; “What She Did for Love,”
People Weekly,
Jan. 30, 1995; Patrice Gains, “How Oprah’s Confession Tumbled Out,”
Washington Post,
Jan. 13, 1995; Ellen Edwards, “Oprah Winfrey Admits Drug Use,”
Washington Post,
Jan. 13, 1995; Bill Zwecker, “Oprah Drug
Revelation Could Backfire,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 15, 1995; Robert Feder, “Oprah Agonized Over Drug Story,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 19, 1995; Chris Kaltenbach, “As Fans Applaud Honesty, Others Wonder If Ratings Prompted Admission,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 14, 1995; Jeffrey Rodack, “Oprah Erupts in Sex and Drug Shocker,”
National Enquirer,
Feb. 18, 1997; Cindy Adams, “He May Try to Bond with NYC,”
New York Post,
Oct. 1, 2007; Lucinda Hahn, “New Mom Samantha Harris; Expectant Mom Jennifer Lopez,”
Chicago Tribune,
Oct. 17, 2007.

TV/DVD/PODCAST:
Oprah Winfrey interviewed by Fred Griffith,
The Morning Exchange
, fifteenth anniversary, WEWS-TV, aired Jan. 1987; Oprah Winfrey speech at the Women’s Business Development Center luncheon, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 27, 2006 (mp3 downloaded from
www.odeo.com/audio/2003955/play
on Nov. 13, 2006);
Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set).

INTERVIEWS:
Margo Howard, July 25, 2008, and correspondence with Margo Howard, Dec. 13, 2006; Dori Wilson, Sept. 8, 2008; Robert Waldron, Sept. 4, 2008; Robert Feder, Oct. 11, 2007; Randolph Cook, July 25, 2007, and Aug. 15, 2007; Diane Dimond, Apr. 29, 2007, and correspondence with Diane Dimond, Dec. 14, 2006; confidential source, Oct. 8, 2009; Jerry Oppenheimer, Nov. 2, 2007; Patty O’Toole, Nov. 20, 2008; confidential source, Jan. 2, 2008, Mar. 19, 2008, Mar. 21, 2008, and June 3, 2008.

E
IGHT

BOOKS:
Alice Walker,
The Same River Twice
(Scribner, 1996); Quincy Jones,
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
(Harlem Books, 2001); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Evelyn C. White,
Alice Walker
(W.W. Norton and Co., 2004); Lawrence Leamer,
Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger
(St. Martin’s Press, 2005).

ARTICLES:
Louis B. Parks, “ ‘Purple’ Actresses Make Most of Meaty Roles,”
Houston Chronicle
, Mar. 21, 1986; Susan Dworkin, “The Strange and Wonderful Story of the Making of
The Color Purple,
”
Ms.,
Dec. 1985; Elena Featherstone, “The Making of
The Color Purple,
”
San Francisco Focus,
Dec. 1985; Jack Mathews, “3 ‘Color Purple’ Actresses Talk About Its Impact,”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 31, 1986; Philip Wuntch, “Best Known as Comedian, Whoopi Goldberg Uneasy with Movie Stardom,”
Ottawa Citizen,
Dec. 23, 1985; Gene Siskel, “ ‘Color Purple’: Powerful, Daring, Sweetly Uplifting,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 20, 1985; Denise Abbott, “The Price of Fame,”
Celebrity,
Oct. 1987; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,”
Time,
Aug. 8, 1988; Alessandra Stanley, “Morning TV Veers from News to Frills,”
New York Times,
Dec. 4, 2007; Amy Wallace, “War of Words,”
Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 95, 1998; Ann Kolson, “Oprah a Name to be Reckoned With,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, Jan. 14, 1986; Delores Brooks, “The Phenomenal Oprah Winfrey,”
Dollars and Sense
(date unknown); Bruce Cook, “Oprah Enjoying Sweet Success,”
L.A. Life/Daily News,
Mar. 17, 1986; Jonathan Van Meter, “Oprah’s Moment,”
Vogue,
Oct. 1998; Gary Ballard, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Drama-Logue,
Mar. 20–26, 1986; Fred Goodman, “The Companies They Keep,”
Working Women
, Dec. 1, 1991; Grant Pick, “Oprah!”
Republic,
Jan. 1986; “Oprah: Tom Cruise’s Couch Jumping Was Wilder Than
It Seemed,”
www.ABCNews.go.com
, Nov. 11, 2005; “Loving Life,”
www.oprah.com
, May 23, 2005; Janet Charlton, “In Happier Times,”
www.janetcharltonshollywood.com
, Aug. 20, 2006; Michael Sneed et al., “Oprah Goes Hollywood,”
Chicago Tribune,
June 4, 1985; “Names and Faces,”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
Sept. 19, 1998; Ann Marie Lipinski, “Oprah Winfrey Buying West Side Studios,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 18, 1988; Pat Colander, “Oprah Winfrey’s Odyssey: Talk Show Host to Mogul,”
New York Times,
Mar. 12, 1989; Veronica Chambers and Allison Samuels, “The Women of ‘Beloved,’ ”
Newsweek,
Oct. 19, 1998; Mary Gillespie, “The Women of ‘Brewster Place,’ ”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 12, 1989; Gene Wyatt, “Oprah Winfrey Learns How to Get Mad for ‘Color Purple,’ ”
Tennessean
, Dec. 15, 1985; Roger Ebert, “In Film Debut, Oprah Proves She’s Born to the ‘Purple,’ ”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 15, 1985; Gene Siskel, “With ‘Purple’ Spielberg Finally Grows Up and Gets Serious,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 15, 1985; Sheila Benson, “Two Women of Substance in Unlikely Settings: ‘The Color Purple,’ ”
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 18, 1985; David Ansen, “The Color Purple,”
Newsweek,
Dec. 30, 1985; Rita Kempley, “ ‘Purple’ Making Whoopi a Star,”
Washington Post,
Dec. 20, 1985; Stephen Hunter, “Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Dec. 17, 1985; Lou Cedrone, “The Color Purple,”
Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Dec. 20, 1985; Diane Bartley, “An Oscar for Oprah,”
Tennessean
, Feb. 7, 1986; Robert Feder, “Nice Guy Newman Cancelled by Channel 5,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
July 25, 1985; Michael Sneed et al., “City Ditties,”
Chicago Tribune,
Aug. 29, 1985; “Oprah Returns to Nashville as Millionaire,”
Tennessean
, Aug. 8, 1985; Lou Cedrone, “Winfrey Story Only Beginning,”
Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Mar. 18, 1986; Luther Young, “Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Feb. 21, 1986; Jeffrey Strickler, “Winfrey, Having Achieved Quite a Bit, Expects ‘Great Things from Myself,’ ” Minneapolis
StarTribune,
Apr. 18, 1986; R. C. Smith, “She Once Trashed Her Apartment to Make a Point,”
TV Guide,
Aug. 30, 1986; E. R. Shipp, “Blacks in Heated Debate Over ‘The Color Purple,’ ”
New York Times,
Jan. 27, 1986; Josephine Trescott, “Passions Over ‘Purple,’ ”
Washington Post,
Feb. 5, 1986; Roger Ebert, “The Top Ten Films of 1985,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 29, 1985; Roger Ebert, “Hope Lives in a Character’s Truth,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 28, 2004; Rose P. B. Venditti and Sylvia Badger, “Coming Home,”
Baltimore News American,
Feb. 21, 1986; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,”
Woman’s Day,
Oct. 1, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,”
Spy,
Dec. 1986; Stephanie Mansfield, “And Now, Heeeeeeere’s Oprah,”
Washington Post,
Oct. 21, 1986; Robert Kurson, “The Silent Treatment,”
Chicago,
July 2001; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Tina Brown, “My New Mantra for 2009,”
www.thedailybeast.com
, Jan. 2, 2009; Tina Brown, “Is Michelle the New Oprah?”
www.thedailybeast.com
, Apr. 2, 2009; “Bad Press,”
www.thedailybeast.com
, Aug. 21, 2009; Lloyd Grove, “Oprah and the Sweat Lodge Guru,”
www.thedailybeast.com
, Oct. 23, 2009.