Oprah (72 page)

TV:
Oprah Winfrey episode,
E! The True Hollywood Story,
aired Oct. 17, 2004.

INTERVIEWS:
Alice Walker, Oct. 7, 2008; correspondence with confidential source, Dec. 5, 2007, and Dec. 12, 2007; Erica Jong, Dec. 17, 2006; confidential source, Nov. 9, 2007; Sandi Mendelson, Jan. 7, 2008; correspondence with Tina Brown’s assistant, Jan. 7, 2008.

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RECORDS:
Transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech to American Women’s Economic Development Corporation conference, New York City, Feb. 25, 1989; Stedman Graham marriage records details, Tarrant County public access; verification of birth of Wendy Graham, Texas Department of State Health Services; documents in the case of
Stedman Graham and Oprah Winfrey v. Extra Media, Inc.,
case no. 1:92-CV-02087, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; “Join the Team” form for Member Athletes,
www.joinaad.com
; IRS forms 990 for Athletes Against Drugs, 2002–2007, EIN 36-3463119.

BOOKS:
Bill Adler, ed.,
The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey
(Citadel Press, 1997); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Stedman Graham,
You Can Make It Happen
(Fireside, 1998) and
Build Your Own Life Brand
(Free Press, 2001); Stedman Graham, “Whitesboro: A Hometown Remembered,” in Wendel A. White,
Small Towns, Black Lives
(The Noyes Museum of Art, 2003).

ARTICLES:
Timothy McDarrah, “Talk’s Not Cheap,”
New York Post,
Jan. 1, 1987; Lloyd Shearer, “Oprah Winfrey—How Rich?”
Parade,
Feb. 15, 1987; Stephen Viens, “Secret Ways That Oprah Windfall Enjoys Her Millions,”
Star,
Aug. 23, 1988; Alan Richman, “Oprah,”
People Weekly,
Jan. 12, 1987; “And Another,”
Boston Globe,
Mar. 1, 1988; Charles Whitaker, “The Most Talked-About TV Show Host,”
Ebony,
Mar. 1987; Aljean Harmetz, “Learning to Live with Runaway Fame,”
New York Times,
May 18, 1986; Alan G. Artner, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Chicago Tribune,
Jan. 10, 1988; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,”
Chicago Tribune,
Feb. 6, 1985; Leslie Rubenstein, “Oprah! Thriving on Faith,”
McCall’s,
Aug. 1987; Elizabeth Sporkin et al., “Her Man Stedman,”
People Weekly,
Nov. 23, 1992; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 13, 1987; “Will Opulence Spoil Oprah?”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 1, 1988; “Oprah’s Best Friend, Gayle King, Lists 10,433-Square-Foot House in Greenwich, CT for $7.45M,”
www.bergproperties.com/blog
, July 7, 2008; Robert Feder, “Five More Reasons You Gotta Love Outrageous Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 1, 1987; Nicole Sweeney, “When I Was 30: Vernita Lee,”
www.mkeonline.com
, May 19, 2005; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,”
Ms.,
Aug. 1986; Steve Sonsky, “Oprah Winfrey!”
Miami Herald,
Sept. 7, 1986; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,”
Woman’s Day,
Oct. 1, 1986; Jill Brook Coiner, “Oprah Sets the Record Straight,”
McCall’s,
Nov. 1993; R. C. Smith, “She Once Trashed Her Apartment to Make a Point,”
TV Guide,
Aug. 30, 1986; Marilyn Johnson, “Oprah Between the Covers,”
Life,
Sept. 1997; Kwaku Alston and Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Tina Turner,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
May 2005; Alan Bash, “Viewers Can Get a Dose of Reality in Syndication,”
USA Today,
May 30, 1995; Judy Markey, “Opinionated Oprah!”
Woman’s Day,
Oct. 4, 1988; 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; Jamie Foster Brown, “Everything Negroes Ever Wanted to Ask Oprah, Part 2,”
Sister 2 Sister,
Dec. 1997; Lisa DePaulo, “Oprah’s Private Life,”
TV Guide,
June 3, 1989; Mary Gillespie, “Oprah’s Main Squeeze,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 14, 1987; Eric Sherman, “Oprah Winfrey’s Success Story,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
Mar. 1987; Nancy Griffin, “Oprah (Lite),”
Us,
Mar. 20, 1989; David Rensin, “The Prime Time of Ms. Oprah Winfrey,”
TV Guide,
May 16, 1992; Mary Ann Bendel, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
Mar. 1988; “Stedman Stole Oprah from Rich Doc’s Arms,”
Globe,
Feb. 16, 1993; Debra Pickett, “Boring, Cool, Silly, Sublime,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 29, 2002; George Rush and Joanna Molloy, “When a Rumor Is Dead Wrong,” New York
Daily News,
Apr. 18, 2002; Mike Kiley, “His Own Man,”
Chicago Tribune,
May 24, 1995; Michel Marriott, “They Used to Call Me Oprah’s Boyfriend,”
New York Times,
Feb. 26, 1997; JaNae’ Bates, “Stedman Defines Himself and Tells Students to Do the Same,” Cleveland
Call and Post,
Aug. 3–9, 2006; Gretchen Reynolds, “The Man She’s Marrying,”
Chicago,
Dec. 1993; Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, “Winnie Mandela’s U.S. Promoter,”
Washington Post,
Mar. 8, 1989; “Lunch on Oprah in South African Town,”
Boston Herald,
July 23, 1988; Brian Williams and David Barritt, “Oprah’s Mission of Mercy,”
National Enquirer,
Apr. 3, 1990; Richard Schweid, “Oprah Takes a Risk with TV Special,”
Tennessean
, Nov. 20, 1988; Julia Lawlor, “The Other Oprah,”
USA Weekend
, June 2–4, 1989; LaTonya Taylor, “The Church of O,”
Christianity Today,
Apr. 1, 2002; Ken Harrell, “Shocking Secrets Stedman Hides from Oprah,”
Globe,
May 7, 1991; “One on One with Oprah,”
www.etonline.com
, Jan. 3, 2007; “And Oprah’s No Mike Tyson,”
New York Post,
Nov. 11, 1988; “I Want a Baby—A Little Heir,”
Star,
Sept. 12, 1989; Joanna Powell, “Oprah’s Awakening,”
Good Housekeeping,
Dec. 1998; “New Oprah Shocker! Fiancé Stedman Had Sex with a Gay Cousin,”
News Extra,
Mar. 24, 1992; Laura B. Randolph, “Oprah Opens Up About Her Weight, Her Wedding, and Why She Withheld the Book,”
Ebony,
Oct. 1993; Rosalind Rossi, “New Oprah ‘Shocker’ Spurs $300 Million Defamation Suit,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 27, 1992; Ann McLaughlin, “Oprah Wins Suit Against Montreal Tab,” Montreal
Gazette,
May 3, 1992; Rosalind Rossi, “Winfrey, Friend Win Lawsuit by Default,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
May 2, 1992; “Oprah Winfrey Wins Suit by Default,”
Chicago Tribune,
May 2, 1992; Mark Steyn, “Comic Oprah,”
National Review,
Mar. 23, 1998; Barbara Reynolds, “Because of Others I Can Live the Dream,”
USA Today,
Aug. 8, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,”
Spy,
Dec. 1986; Leslie Marshall, “The Intentional Oprah,”
InStyle,
Nov. 1998; “Oprah to Offer Eccentric Dining,”
USA Today,
Nov. 21, 1988; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 26, 1988; “Oprah Winfrey,”
People Weekly,
Dec. 28, 1987; “Grapevine Squashed,”
Newsday,
Sept. 10, 1987; Tony Castro, “Threat to Top Talk Show,”
Globe,
Sept. 1, 1987; Bill Carter, “Oprah!”
Baltimore Sun,
Sept. 24, 1987; Robert Feder, “WMAQ Sale Will Leave Big Talkers Speechless,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 29, 1987.

TV/DVD/OTHER:
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set); “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E
Biography
special, aired Jan. 16, 2000; Kathy Griffin at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2008;
Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg,
TV Land, aired Feb. 28, 2007.

INTERVIEWS:
Correspondence with Michael Fox, Dec. 10, 2007; Ed Kosowski, Nov. 8, 2008; Nancy Stoddart, July 8, 2009; Katharine Carr Esters, Aug. 1, 2007; Joanna Molloy, July 7, 2008; E. Faye Butler, Apr. 3, 2009; Fran Johns, Sept. 2007; correspondence with Dorothy H. Kiser, Hardin-Simmons University, Feb. 4, 2009; correspondence with
investigator Dale Lee Hinz, Fort Worth Police, Mar. 13, 2009; correspondence with Richard W. Schott, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Feb. 20, 2007; Armstrong Williams, Nov. 19, 2008; correspondence with Henry Fulmer, University of North Carolina; confidential source, June 11, 2007; confidential source, Oct. 8, 2009; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 24, 2008; Paxton Quigley, Mar. 10, 2008, and Mar. 12, 2008; Bill Zwecker, Oct. 11, 2007.

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EN

RECORDS:
Transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech to American Women’s Economic Development Corporation conference, New York City, Feb. 25, 1989.

BOOKS:
Merrell Noden,
People Profiles: Oprah Winfrey
(Time Life, 1999).

ARTICLES:
Alan Richman, “Oprah,”
People Weekly,
Jan. 12, 1987; “Oprah: The Best Is Yet to Come,”
www.msnbc.msn.com
, May 19, 2006; Renard A. Hirsch, Sr., “ ‘Anger’ Oprah Recalls Not Apparent to All,”
Tennessean
, Mar. 17, 1987; Roderick McDavis, “Oprah Winfrey’s Credibility,” Tennessee State University
Meter,
Mar. 26, 1987; Amy Gutman and David Graham, “TSU Commencement to Feature Winfrey,”
Tennessean
, Mar. 28, 1987; Patricia Templeton, “Oprah Gets Her College Degree,”
Nashville Banner,
May 4, 1987; Sue Thomas, “Oprah Returns to TSU in Triumph,”
Sunday Tennessean
, May 3, 1987; “Transcript of Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address,”
Stanford Report,
June 15, 2008; Dwight Lewis, “Oprah Winfrey Funding 10 Full Scholarships,”
Tennessean
, Aug. 3, 1987; Marcia Ann Gillespie, “Winfrey Takes All,”
Ms.,
Nov. 1988; Roger Hitts, “New Oprah Anguish as Dad Is Named in Sex Complaint,”
Star,
Feb. 14, 1995; Dani Cestaro et al., “Oprah Fights to Save Her Dad in Sex Scandal,”
National Enquirer,
Feb. 19, 1995; Karen Thomas, “Oprah Stands by Her Dad,”
USA Today,
Feb. 3, 1995; “Oprah Winfrey Responds to Allegations That Her Father Harrassed College Student,”
Jet,
Feb. 20, 1995; Rod Gibson, “Oprah to the Rescue,”
Globe,
Feb. 1995 (exact date unknown); Peter Burt and Dani Cestaro, “Oprah in Tears as Dad’s Accuser in Sex Scandal Passes Lie Test,”
National Enquirer,
Feb. 31, 1995; Kirk Loggins, “Bribe Solicited from Winfrey, Prosecutors Say,”
Tennessean
, Apr. 1, 1995; Toni Drew, “Winfrey Accuser’s Attorney Pleads Guilty,”
Nashville Banner,
Aug. 25, 1995; “Lawyer Loses Again in Oprah’s Dad’s Case,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 1, 1995; Laura B. Randolph, “Oprah!”
Ebony,
July 1995; Delores Brooks, “The Phenomenal Oprah Winfrey,”
Dollars and Sense
(date unknown); “Oprah Gives $1 Million to Morehouse College,”
Baltimore
Evening Sun,
May 22, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey Makes Second $5 Million [Donation],”
www.morehouse.edu
, Feb. 24, 2004; Kim Cunningham “Behind Closed Doors,”
People Weekly,
Apr. 29, 1996; Lisa Kogan, “Oprah and Gayle Uncensored,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Aug. 2006; Jennifer Hunter, “Even Well-Intended Celebs Adopt Aloof Attitudes,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Nov. 1, 2006; Debbie Schlussel, “Oprah Discovers the Holocaust,”
www.frontpagemag.com
, May 29, 2009; “Putting Down Rover, and the Year’s Other Disasters,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 29, 2006; Bob Monk, “Oprah Event Nets $5000,” Kosciusko
Star-
Herald,
June 9, 1988; “Newsmakers,”
Houston Chronicle,
June 6, 1988; Kevin Pilley, “Grand Ol’ Oprah,”
Express
, Aug. 8, 1998; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; transcript,
CNN Newsroom
, May 12, 2007,
www.transcipts.cnn.com
; “Oprah Winfrey’s commencement
address, Wellesley College, May 30, 1997,”
www.wellesley.edu
; Mark Thornton, “Grand Oprah-ning,” Kosciusko
Star-
Herald,
Sept. 4, 2006; “Oprah Comes Home,” Kosciusko
Star-
Herald,
Nov. 19, 1998; Jonathan Van Meter, “Looking for Oprah,”
Oxford American,
Apr./May 1999; “Kosciusko Prepares for Oprah’s Nov. 14 Visit,” Kosciusko
Star-
Herald,
July 30, 2007; Bob Michals and Bob Hartlein, “Oprah’s Torment,”
Star,
Mar. 25, 2003; Bob Michals, “The Uncle Oprah Accuses of Sexually Abusing Her,”
National Enquirer,
Sept. 9, 1992; Julia Lawlor, “The Other Oprah,”
USA Weekend
, June 2–4, 1989; Pearl Cleage, “Walking in the Light,”
Essence,
June 1991; Oprah’s Steady to Be Her Hubby,”
USA Today,
Nov. 9, 1992;
People Weekly,
Nov. 23, 1992; Elizabeth Sporkin et al., “Her Man Stedman,”
People Weekly,
Nov. 23, 1992; Robert Feder, “Jones Turns Misery into Ratings Circus,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 24, 1992.

TV/PODCAST:
Alan Frio interview with Vernon and Barbara Winfrey, WMSV-TV, aired Feb. 12, 2007 (viewed at
www.wmsv.com
);
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
“Oprah at Auschwitz,” aired May 24, 2006; 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).

INTERVIEWS:
Brooks Parker, Apr. 29, 2008; Chris Clark, Apr. 23, 2008; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 22, 2008; Paul Moore, Apr. 21, 2008; Katie Rawls, Apr. 21, 2008; correspondence with confidential source, Feb. 18, 2009; Jewette Battles, July 31, 2007, Aug. 14, 2007, and correspondence with Jewette Battles, Apr. 29, 2008, and Oct. 8, 2008; Katharine Carr Esters, July 30, 2007 (along with Jewette Battles), Aug. 1, 2007, Sept. 11, 2007, and Feb. 5, 2008; Nancy Green, July 30, 2007; James van Sweden, Dec. 12, 2007, and Dec. 27, 2007.