Oprah (73 page)

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RECORDS:
“The Oprah Winfrey Show,” King World press release, 1987; documents in the case of
Colleen M. Raleigh v. Harpo, Inc. and Oprah Winfrey,
case no. 94L-13511, Circuit Court of Cook County; death certificate, Jeffrey Lee, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services; 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; transcript, “Headlines That Shocked the Nation: Mexican Satanic Cult Murders,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
aired May 1, 1989; documents from the files of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Greater Chicago Regional Office, concerning reaction to
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
May 1, 1989, and the meeting with Jewish leaders, May 9, 1989.

BOOKS:
Mark Mathabane,
Kaffir Boy in America
(Free Press, 1990); Jecquin D. Irwin,
My Life After Oprah
(self-published, 2006, Kindle ed.); Paul Natkin and Stephen Green,
To Oprah with Love
(New Millennium Press, 2002); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987).

ARTICLES:
Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,”
Ms.,
Aug. 1986; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,”
Time,
Aug. 8, 1988; Cheryl Lavin, “It’s All Going Oprah’s Way,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 19, 1985; Yardena Arar, “Winfrey’s Talk Show Makes National Debut,” Fort Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel,
Sept. 8, 1986; John Carmody, “The TV Column,”
Washington Post,
Aug. 26, 1986; Mel Novit, “The Women Behind Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Mar. 22, 1987; P. J. Bednarski, “All About Oprah Inc.,”
Broadcasting and Cable,
June 24, 2005; John Dempsey, “Winfrey Agrees to Produce Her Own Show,”
Variety
, Aug. 14, 1988; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,”
Chicago Tribune,
Feb. 6, 1985; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,”
Spy,
Dec. 1986; Marcia Ann Gillespie, “Winfrey Takes All,”
Ms.,
Nov. 1988; Lisa DePaulo, “Oprah’s Private Life,”
TV Guide,
June 3, 1989; “William Rizzo,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 4, 1990; Bill Zwecker, “United Front Ousted Oprah Aide,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 29, 1994; Gretchen Reynolds, “The Oprah Myth,”
TV Guide,
July 23, 1994; Charles Whitaker, “The Most Talked About TV Show Host,”
Ebony,
Mar. 1987; Dana Kennedy, “A New Soap Oprah,”
Entertainment Weekly,
Nov. 11, 1994; Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms, “Oprah Winfrey,” Harvard Business School Publication 9-803-190, May 8, 2003, revised June 1, 2005; Patrick Goldstein, “The Influences on Our Taste,”
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 20, 1987; Larry Finley, “A Look at Liberty,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
July 20, 1987; “Whitney Houston: Eight American Music Awards Make Her Top Female Singer,”
Jet,
Feb. 28, 1994; Eric Sherman, “Oprah’s Wonder Year,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
May 1990; Cynthia McGee, “Oprah’s Mag Set to Debut,” New York
Daily News,
Apr. 10, 2000; “He Sure Looks Like Oprah,”
People Weekly,
Apr. 29, 1991; “Oprah Look-Alike Winner a Man, at Least for Now,”
Chicago Tribune,
Apr. 13, 1991; Tim Jones, “Attorneys Take Cuts at Editing of ‘Oprah’ Show,”
Chicago Tribune,
Feb. 3, 1998; David Treadwell and Barry Bearak, “20,000 March Against Klan Attack in Georgia,”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 25, 1987; “Williams Will Picket Oprah Winfrey Show,”
Orlando Sentinel,
Feb. 9, 1987; “Oprah’s Show on Ga. March Bars Blacks, Protest Called,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 9, 1987; “Civil Rights Group to Picket Winfrey Episode,”
Tennessean
, Feb. 7, 1987; Robert Feder, “White-Hot Georgians Cut Loose on ‘Oprah,’ ”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 10, 1987; “Vintage Oprah: Racial Tensions in Georgia, Feb. 9, 1987,”
www.oprah.com
, Aug. 31, 2001; Clarence Page, “The Forsyth Saga Comes to TV,”
Chicago Tribune,
Feb. 15, 1987; Howard Rosenberg, “Oprah’s Sweep Through Georgia,”
Los Angeles Times,
Feb. 16, 1987; Robert Feder, “Winfrey to Hit the Road in Talk Show Ratings War,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 5, 1987; Jeff Jarvis, “Top Ten Oprahs,”
People Weekly,
Sept. 5, 1988; “Vintage Oprah: AIDS in West Virginia, Nov. 16, 1987,”
www.oprah.com
, July 27, 2001; Lynn Rosellini and Erica E. Goode, “AIDS: When Fear Takes Charge,”
US News & World Report,
Oct. 12, 1987; David Friedman, “In Praise of Oprah,”
Newsday,
Nov. 25, 1987; Joe Mullins et al., “Oprah’s Gay Brother: ‘I’m Dying of AIDS,’ ”
National Enquirer,
Mar. 14, 1989; “Oprah’s Christmas Heartbreak as AIDS Kills Kid Brother,”
Star,
Jan. 9, 1990; “Oprah’s Brother Dies of AIDS,”
USA Today,
Jan. 4, 1990; “Memorable Moments,”
www.oprah.com
, Nov. 14, 2005; Liz Smith, “Liz Taylor and Oprah Didn’t Hit It Off,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
Feb. 12, 1988; Robert Feder, “Oprah Regrets Airing Racial Confrontation,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 9, 1988; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 5, 1988; John Carmody, “The TV Column,”
Washington Post,
Feb. 5, 1988; Dennis Kneale, “Titillating Channels,”
Wall Street Journal,
May 18, 1988; Nan Robertson, “Donahue vs. Winfrey,”
New York Times,
Feb. 1, 1988; Howard Rosenberg, “Sweeps Time on TV: All the Swill That’s Unfit to Screen,”
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 16, 1988; Jim Bawden, “Oprah Winfrey Steps Away from the Microphone,”
Toronto Star,
Mar. 18, 1989; Daniel Golden, “Oprah, Phil, Sally Jessy,”
Boston Globe,
July 10, 1988; Myra Mensh Patner, “The Tragic Legacy of a Sexual Deviation,”
Washington Post,
May 9, 1989; Richard C. Miller, “Oprah Bombshell—She’s Blamed in 2 Bizarre Deaths,”
National Enquirer,
Nov. 28, 1999; “Oprah Blasts Critics Who Blame Her Show for Triggering Sex Deaths,”
Star,
Jan. 2, 1990; Jerome George and Denny Johnson, “Oprah Show Leaves Guest So Ashamed He Hung Himself,”
National Enquirer,
Aug. 21, 1990; “Oprah Crucified My Son,”
Star,
Aug. 21, 1990; Janet Langhart, “It’s Not All Talk with Oprah,”
Boston Herald,
Oct. 18, 1986; Jeremy Gerard, “Winfrey Show Evokes Protests,”
New York Times,
May 6, 1989; Steve Dale, “ ‘Letterman’ Camera’s Capturing City Sights,”
Chicago Tribune,
Apr. 28, 1989; Rick Kogan, “Letterman, City Hit It Off,”
Chicago Tribune,
May 8, 1989; Jason Gay, “Dave at Peace,”
Rolling Stone,
Feb. 18, 2008; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
May 9, 1989; Andrew Duncan, “Grand Oprah,” London
Sunday Express
, Dec. 10, 1989; Jeremy Gerard, “TV Notes,”
New York Times,
May 15, 1989; Neil Steinberg, “City’s Elite Remember Marovitz as True Friend,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 4, 2001; Ann Gerber, “Sondra Wants a Fistful of Clint’s Dollars,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
May 14, 1989; Barbara Sternig and Jim Nelson, “Oprah’s Shameful Secret Past—the Sister Who Saw It All,”
National Enquirer,
Mar. 27, 1990; Ann Gerber, “Animal Rights Folks Bark Up Wrong Tree,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
May 17, 1990; Kathy O’Malley and Hanke Gratteau, “O’Malley and Gratteau INC.,”
Chicago Tribune,
May 19, 1989; Jesse Walker, “
Sun-Times
Fires Columnist on Oprah Rumors,”
New York Amsterdam News,
June 10, 1989; Mike Royko, “Gossip’s Credibility Is Only a Bad Rumor,” Mike Royko,
Chicago Tribune,
May 22, 2009; “Gerber’s Column Is Discontinued,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
May 24, 1989; Delores Brooks, “The Phenomenal Oprah Winfrey,”
Dollars and Sense
(date unknown).

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

INTERVIEWS:
Confidential source, Mar. 3, 2009, and Apr. 24, 2009; confidential source, June 8, 2007; Robert Waldron, Sept. 4, 2008; confidential source, Apr. 24, 2009; Andy Behrman, Aug. 24, 2007, Sept. 8, 2007, Sept. 24, 2007, Feb. 5, 2008, and correspondence with Andy Behrman, Mar. 15, 2009; Katharine Carr Esters, Oct. 4, 2007; Jewette Battles, July 28, 2008; Fran Johns, Sept. 2007; Michael Brooks, Sept. 20, 2007; Blair Sabol, July 28, 2007; Paxton Quigley, Mar. 12, 2008; Eileen Solomon, Mar. 28, 2007; Peggy Furth, Mar. 16, 1007; Suzy Prudden, Feb. 5, 2008; confidential source, Oct. 31, 2007; correspondence with Kevin McShane, Mar. 13, 2009; Margo Howard, Jan. 23, 2008, and July 25, 2008, and correspondence with Margo Howard, Mar. 31, 2009; confidential source, Sept. 7, 2007; Sugar Rautbord, June 19, 2008; Myrna Blyth, May 29, 2007, and correspondence with Myrna Blyth, Mar. 27, 2009; Roger Hitts, Apr. 14, 2008; correspondence with Peter Cherukuri, May 4, 2007; Dr. Harvey Resnik, July 20, 2007, and Apr. 6, 2009; Robert Holm, Mar. 27, 2009; Bill Zwecker, Oct. 11, 2007, and June 25, 2008; Ann Gerber, June 24, 2008; Wayne Kabak, Apr. 25, 2007.

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RECORDS:
IRS forms 990 for Oprah’s Angel Network, 2002–2007, EIN 36-4231488; IRS forms 990 for Angel Network Support Foundation, 2002–2004, EIN 74-2962189; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, 2001–2007, and For A Better Life Foundation, 1998–2000, EIN 36-3976230; Illinois Secretary of State Corporation File Detail Reports for Harpo Productions, Inc., File no. 55194122, Harpo, Inc., File no. 54254253; Harpo Films, Inc., File no. 55895309, Harpo Video, Inc., File no. 59052705, Harpo Studios, Inc., File no. 55281467, and Studio Merchandise, Inc., File no. 5738876; documents in the case of
Lerato Numvuyo Mzamane v. Oprah Winfrey
et al., case no. 2:08-CV-4884 (BWK), U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; documents in the case of
Dr. Mehmet Oz
et al.
v. FWM Labratories, Inc.,
et al., case no. 1:09-CV-07297-DAB, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; State of Delaware Division of Corporations, Entity Details for Harpo Print LLC, File no. 3052257, and Harpo Radio, Inc., File no. 4097492;
Oprah Make the Connection,
Buena Vista Home Video and Harpo Productions Press Release, Sept. 11, 1997.

BOOKS:
George Mair,
Oprah Winfrey: The Real Story
(Birch Lane Press, 1994); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987).

ARTICLES:
Matt Roush, “Return to Brewster,”
USA Today,
May 1, 1990; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Janet Langhart, “It’s Not All Talk with Oprah,”
Boston Herald,
Oct. 18, 1986; Marty Daniels, “Oprah the Collector,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 30, 1990; Marge Colburn, “With Clients Like Oprah, This Designer’s Favorite Color Is Green,”
Detroit News,
Feb. 22, 1992; Linda Gross, “Oprah Winfrey, Wonder Woman,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
Dec. 1988; Mary Ann Bendel, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
Mar. 1988; Mark Caro, “The Mogul Shows Off Her Studio, Her ‘Control,’ ”
Chicago Tribune,
Mar. 18, 1990; Chris Anderson, “Meet Oprah Winfrey,”
Good Housekeeping,
Aug. 1986; transcript,
Larry King Live,
Sept. 4, 2001,
www.transcripts.cnn.com
; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 7, 1986; Julie Salamon, “On Film: Richard Wright Minus the Rage,”
Wall Street Journal,
Jan. 8, 1987; Hal Ericson, All Movie Guide,
www.allmovie.com
(undated); Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘Native Son,’ Based on Wright’s Novel,”
New York Times,
Dec. 24, 1986; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,”
Time,
Aug. 8, 1988; Rick Kogan, “ ‘Brewster’ Is One of Many Stories Oprah Has to Tell,”
Chicago Tribune,
Mar. 19, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey Plans Production Company,”
Atlanta Daily World,
Feb. 15, 1987; Pat Colander, “Oprah Winfrey’s Odyssey: Talk Show Host to Mogul,”
New York Times,
Mar. 12, 1989; James Warren, “King World Sounds Confident of Keeping ‘Ambitious’ Oprah,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 14, 1989; “Winfrey Options ‘Beloved’ Rights,”
Hollywood Reporter,
Jan. 12, 1988; Pearl Cleage, “The Courage to Dream,”
Essence,
Dec. 1998; Steven R. Strahler, “Oprah Buys Studio in Chicago,”
Electronic Media,
Sept. 26, 1988; “Oprah’s Show Is Honored by British Academy as Best Foreign TV Program,”
Jet,
Mar. 2, 1994; Timothy McDarrah, “Talk’s Not Cheap,”
New York Post,
Jan. 1, 1987; Lloyd Shearer, “Oprah Winfrey—How Rich?”
Parade,
Feb. 15, 1987; “Rich Get Richer,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 17, 1989; Calvin Trillin, “Half an Oaf,”
New York Times,
Apr. 12, 2009; Marla Hart, “Chicago Is No. 1 When It Comes to Talk
Show Audiences,”
Chicago Tribune,
Apr. 18, 1993; Jennifer Shaw, “Oprah Strikes Gold,”
New York Post,
Aug. 2, 1988; Mel Tapley, “Oprah Signs $500M 5-Year Contract,”
New York Amsterdam News,
Aug. 6, 1988; Matt Roush, “Oprah Gains More Than Money in New Contract,”
USA Today,
Aug. 4, 1988; Robert Feder, “A Slimmer Oprah Feasts on the Glory of Her Rich TV Deal,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Aug. 22, 1988; Daniel Ruth, “Has the New Winfrey Diet Made Oprah Light-Headed?”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 1, 1988; Lois McAloon, “The Birth of the West Side,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 2, 1998; Ann Marie Lipinski, “Oprah Winfrey Buying West Side TV Studios,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 18, 1988; Marcia Ann Gillespie, “Winfrey Takes All,”
Ms.,
Nov. 1988; Robert Feder, “Oprah Buys Studio on W. Side,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 17, 1988; Delores Brooks, “The Phenomenal Oprah Winfrey,”
Dollars and Sense
(date unknown); Robert Feder, “Five More Reasons You Just Gotta Love Outrageous Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 1, 1987; Robert Feder, “America’s TV Reporters Get Their Minutes with Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 15, 1990; Shelly Levitt, “Flush Femmes,”
People Weekly,
Aug. 30, 1993; “About Harpo,”
www.oprah.com
, June 7, 2006; “Jeffrey Jacobs,”
www.luc.edu
, Jan. 19, 2007; “Harpo Films Feature Films and TV Movies,”
www.oprah.com
, July 1, 2008; Stephen Galloway, “Winfrey Leads with a Mighty Heart,”
Hollywood Reporter,
Nov. 26, 2007; Jerry C. Davis, “Winfrey’s Studio Should Invigorate Near West Side,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
July 30, 1990; Bob Goldsborough, “Oprah’s Empire,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 11, 2006; Marcia Froelke Coburn, “Oprah Unbound,”
Chicago,
Dec. 2008; “Dogs Are Children, Too,”
People Weekly,
May 23, 2005; Nancy Mills, “Hard Times, Brave Women Reside on ‘Brewster Place,’ ”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 27, 1989; “Oprah Goes Hollywood,”
People Weekly,
June 13, 1988; Solomon Herbert, “The Women of Brewster Place,”
Essence,
Nov. 1988; Michael Hill, “Oprah Feels Fame Has Given Her Responsibilities,”
Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Jan. 16, 1989; “The Women of Brewster Place,”
Ebony,
Mar. 1989; Michele Kort, “Lights, Camera, Affirmative Action,”
Ms.,
Nov. 1988; Bill Carter, “Oprah Dons Actress, Producer Hat, Promotes ABC Miniseries,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 16, 1989; Mary Gillespie, “The Women of Brewster Place,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 12, 1989; Robert Feder, “Ch. 5 Wants to Take Joan Esposito from Ch. 7 News,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 22, 1989; “Oprah Beats ‘The Wiz,’ ” New York
Daily News,
Mar. 21, 1989; Daniel Ruth, “Despite Its Sexism, ‘Brewster Place’ Tells Poignant Tale,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 17, 1989; Robert Feder, “ABC Pleases Oprah with ‘Brewster’ Slot,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 17, 1990; John Martin, “A Palace for Talk Show Queen,”
Providence Journal,
Mar. 15, 1990; Bill Brashler, “Next on Oprah…,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
Aug. 1991; Pearl Cleage, “Walking in the Light,”
Essence,
June 1991; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Tim Appelo and Frank Spotnitz, “Love Prophet,”
Entertainment Weekly,
Mar. 6, 1992; Gretchen Reynolds, “Oprah Unbound,”
Chicago,
Nov. 1993; Elizabeth Payne, “The Word According to Winfrey,”
Ottawa Citizen,
June 24, 2000; “Joy,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
May 2001; “Oprah Hosts Live Your Best Life Tour 2003,”
Business Wire,
Mar. 18, 2003.