Oprah (78 page)

BOOKS:
Patrick H. Crowe,
Oprah for President: Run, Oprah, Run!
(Crowe Enterprises, 2005); Richard Wolffe,
Renegade
(Crown Publishers, 2009).

ARTICLES:
“Oprah Winfrey’s Biography,”
www.oprah.com
(downloaded Feb. 20, 2009); “
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Global Distribution List,”
www.oprah.com
, May 2009; Stephanie D. Smith, “The Circulation Gauge,”
WWD,
Aug. 27, 2009; Patricia Sellars, “The Business of Being Oprah,”
Fortune,
Apr. 1, 2000; Peter Lauria, “NBC Breathes In,”
New York Post,
Oct. 10, 2007; Meg James, “Oprah Teams with Discovery on New Cable Channel,”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 15, 2008; “
Oprah.com
Facts,”
www.oprah.com
, May 2008; “Oprah Most Requested Stop in PR Campaigns,”
www.PR-inside.com
, Jan. 12, 2008; Mark Jurkowitz, “Attack of the 50-Foot Oprah,”
Boston Phoenix,
Feb. 9, 2006; Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms, “Oprah Winfrey,” Harvard Business School Publication 9-803-190, May 8, 2003, revised June 1, 2005; “A Class Act: Oprah Hosts Students of History 298,”
Inside Illinois,
May 17, 2001; “The Age of Oprah,” cover,
Newsweek,
Jan. 18, 2001; “Queen Oprah,”
Wall Street Journal,
Sept. 17, 1997; LaTonya Taylor, “The Church of O,”
Christianity Today,
Apr. 1, 2002; Mary McNamara, “The Life of Hollywood,”
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 11, 2005; Lynn Sweet, “Bush, Gore in Hot Seat with Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 10, 2000; Robert Feder, “Gore to Help Kick Off New Season of Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 1, 2000; “Oprah Lines Up Gore as Guest for Sept. 11,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 1, 2000; Joyce Millman, “The Road to the White House Goes Through Oprah,”
www.Salon.com
, Sept. 25, 2000; transcript, “Bill Moyers Talks with Dr. Ronald Walters,”
Bill Moyers Journal,
Dec. 14, 2007,
www.pbs.org
; Lynn Sweet, “Oprah Backs Obama but Will She Vote for Him?”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 7, 2007; Brad Ritzer, “I Would Have Done This Job for Free,”
Woman,
Dec. 14, 1998; Ginny Dougary, “Soul Queen,” London
Times Magazine,
Mar. 4, 1995; Martyn Palmer, “Unloved but Unbowed,” London
Times,
Feb. 25, 1999; Joshua Green, “Take Two,”
Atlantic Monthly,
Nov. 2006; “Obama and the Oprah Factor,”
Newsmax,
May 2008; Larry King, “Hannibal Lecter Turns Up in Italy,”
USA Today,
June 15, 1992; Michael Kranish, “Oprah on Dole Chat: I Just Won’t Do It,”
Boston Globe,
Oct. 11, 1996; Michael Starr, “Oprah Denies Bouncing Dole,”
New York Post,
Oct. 11, 1996; Thomas Galvin, “Oprah Tells Bob to Take a Hike,”
New York Post,
Oct. 8, 1996; Robert
Feder, “Oprah Lets Political Parade Pass Her By,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Aug. 26, 1996; Phil Kloer, “Beatles and ‘Soul Train’ Make Music for Sweeps,”
Atlanta Constitution,
Nov. 1, 1995; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Nov. 7, 1997; Louis Lague, “The White-Tie House,”
People Weekly,
June 27, 1994; Donnie Radcliffe and Jacqueline Trescott, “Politics and Putters,”
Washington Post,
June 28, 1989; Will Lesher, “Bush, Gore Hope Oprah Will Be the Way to Gain Crucial Female Votes,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 8, 2000; David Skinner, “Gore’s Softsell on ‘Oprah,’ ”
www.Salon.com
, Sept. 12, 2000; Phil Rosenthal, “Selling Obama May Be Beyond Oprah’s Reach,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 7, 2007; “Getting Off the Couch,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 21, 2000; Gary Wisby, “Punch Card, Punch Line,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 17, 2000; “Gore Gets a Laugh on Oprah’s Show,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 11, 2000; Naftali Bendavid, “Gore Wins Battle of Wills on ‘Oprah’ Show,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 12, 2000; Mark Brown, “Gore Had Nothing to Fear with Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 22, 2000; Michael Sneed, “Sneed,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 22, 2000; “Bush Has His Turn to Woo Women Voters on ‘Oprah,’ ”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 18, 2000; Richard Roeper, “Preppies Bush, Gore Are Hard Not to Heckle,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 20, 2000; “Texas Governor George W. Bush Has Revealing Talk with Oprah,”
Jet,
Sept. 19, 2000; Matthew Mosk, “The Magic Touch?”
Washington Post,
Sept. 5, 2007; Gloria Steinem, “Oprah Winfrey: How America Got with the Program,”
Time,
Apr. 18, 2005; Ellen Warren and Terry Farmer, “Bush Has Idea for Oprah’s Next Lifestyle Makeover,”
Chicago Tribune,
Apr. 16, 2001; “Oprah Talks to Laura Bush,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
May 2001; Tara Copp, “First Lady Working Hard on Home Front,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 19, 2001; “Oprah Fears Trip, Skips O Premiere in South Africa,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 11, 2002; “Oprah Skips South African Launch of ‘O’ Magazine,”
National Enquirer,
Apr. 11, 2002; Jeff, Zeleny, “Oprah Declines Bush Invite to Afghan Trip,”
Chicago Tribune,
Mar. 29, 2002; “Winfrey Won’t Tour for Bush,”
New York Times,
Mar. 30, 2002; Andy Geller, “Envoy Oprah a No-Go,”
New York Post,
Mar. 30, 2002; Barbara E. Martinez, “No Oprah, No Afghan Trip,”
Washington Post,
Mar. 30, 2002; Joseph Honig, “Oprah Balks,”
Los Angeles Daily News,
Apr. 8, 2002; “Oprah Just Says No,”
People Weekly,
Apr. 15, 2002; Sally A. Tully, “Oprah’s Decline,”
Chicago Tribune,
Apr. 16, 2002; Michael Starr and Adam Buckman, “Oprah Complains to Pals on ‘The View,’ White House Set Me Up,”
New York Post,
Apr. 3, 2002; Anne Basile, “My Letter to Oprah,”
www.educate-yourself.org
, Oct. 9, 2002; Sacha Zimmerman, “Saint Oprah,”
www.thenewrepublic.com
, May 21, 2007; transcript, “Buying the War,”
Bill Moyers Journal,
Apr. 25, 2007,
www.pbs.org
; Laurence van Gelder, “Arts Briefing,”
New York Times,
Sept. 18, 2003; “Sweden Censures Oprah for Pro-War Bias,”
Circom Report,
Oct. 2003; Bill O’Reilly, “I Made a Mistake…,”
www.foxnews.com
, Mar. 3, 2003; Larry Elder, “You’ve Got Mail,”
www.worldnetdaily.com
, Dec. 29, 2006; Tom Shales, “A Media Role in Setting the War? No Question,”
Washington Post,
Apr. 25, 2007; “Howard vs. Oprah,”
Star,
Mar. 27, 2004; Greg Gatlin, “Stern Drags Oprah into Indecency Battle,”
Boston Herald,
Mar. 20, 2004; “Is Oprah Next in FCC Crosshairs?”
Newsweek,
Apr. 12, 2004; Richard Roeper, “By FCC Standards, Oprah More Dangerous Than Stern,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 24, 2004; Brian Hutchinson, “Stern Rebuke by FCC,” New York
Daily News,
Mar. 19, 2004; Jeff Jarvis, “Oprah, Pontificating Panderer,”
www.buzzmachine.com
, Mar. 26, 2004; Scott Steepleton, “FCC Should Gauge All by the Same Rules,”
Santa Barbara News-Press,
Apr. 12, 2004; Robert Paul Reyes, “Oprah Winfrey Goes the Jerry Springer Route to Garner High Ratings,”
www.americanchronicle.com
, Feb. 24, 2006; Nitya Venkataraman, “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Barack Obama,”
www.ABCNews.go.com
, Dec. 7, 2007; Gary Cohen et al., “Women Say Schwarzenegger Groped, Humiliated Them,”
Los Angeles Times,
Oct. 2, 2003; Tracy Weber et al., “3 More Women Allege Misconduct,”
Los Angeles Times,
Oct. 4, 2003; Gary Cohen et al., “4 More Women Go Public Against Schwarzenegger,”
Los Angeles Times,
Oct. 5, 2003; Carla Hall, “Another Alleged Victim Comes Forward,”
Los Angeles Times,
Oct. 7, 2003; Maltea Gold and George Rubin, “Critics See Story as Hatchet Job,”
Los Angeles Times,
Oct. 4, 2003; Bill Carter and Brian Stelter, “Letterman Extortion Question Raises Questions for CBS,”
New York Times,
Oct. 3, 2009; Mark Steyn, “Comic Oprah,”
National Review,
Mar. 23, 2008; Tim Griere, “Would You Let Your Sister Vote for this Man?”
www.Salon.com
, Aug. 30, 2003; Hank Steuver, “Is This Any Way to Make a Movie?”
Washington Post,
Sept. 7, 2003; Molly Ivins, “So Whose Mess Is California Anyway?”
Tulsa World,
Aug. 27, 2003; “Season Premiere,”
www.oprah.com
, Sept. 15, 2003; Scott Martelle, “Schwarzenegger Plays Up Family in ‘Oprah’ Talk,”
Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 16, 2003; David K. Li, “Maria Defends Her Husband on
Oprah,
”
New York Post,
Sept. 16, 2003; “The Arnold Show,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 16, 2003; Mary McNamara, “O to a Higher Power,”
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 11, 2005; “Oprah, Arnold and Equal Time,”
New York Times,
Sept. 17, 2003; Katha Pollitt, “Governor Groper?”
Nation,
Oct. 6, 2003; “President Oprah Hits the Web,”
www.news.bbc.co.uk
, Oct. 6, 1999; Michael Moore, “Draft Oprah for President,”
www.michaelmoore.com
(downloaded June 28, 2006); Robert Fulghum, “Journal,”
www.robertfulghum.com
, Aug. 14, 2006; “Top Ten Things Overheard at the Republican Weekend,”
Late Show with David Letterman,
Feb. 21, 1995,
www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow
; Kelli Bamforth, “One Man’s Idea for President Turns National Sensation,”
Wednesday Sun,
Dec. 26, 2007; transcript,
Larry King Live,
Sept. 25, 2006; Don Kaplan, “Please Hold for Oprah,”
New York Post,
Oct. 14, 2006; Judy Markey, “Opinionated Oprah!”
Woman’s Day,
Oct. 4, 1988; Nell Scovell, “Dressing Room Dropout,”
New York Times Style Magazine,
Holiday 2006; “Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison,”
www.oprah.com
, Oct. 24, 2008; Allison Samuels, “Toni Tells Her Troubles,”
Newsweek,
May 1, 2000; Howard Kurtz, “For NBC President, a Week in the Hot Seat,”
Washington Post,
Apr. 30, 2007; “The Virginia Tech Videotape Debate,”
www.oprah.com
, Apr. 24, 2007; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,”
Time,
Aug. 8, 1988; Daniel Margolick, “Through a Lens Darkly,”
www.vanityfair.com
, Sept. 24, 2007; “Fun with Oprah,”
www.ddy.com
(“Oprah Log” downloaded Oct. 9, 2009); Alyson Ward, “Oprah, Dave. Dave, Oprah,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Nov. 30, 2005; Phil Rosenthal, “What Are You Looking At?”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb., 1, 2002; Phil Rosenthal, “Oprah, Please Call Dave,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 7, 2002; Top Ten Lists,
Late Show with David Letterman,
Nov. 11, 1993, June 29, 1994, May 3, 1999, Mar. 29, 2004, Oct. 10, 2005, and Nov. 22, 2005,
www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow
; “Scoop,”
People Weekly,
Dec. 5, 2005; Aaron Barnhart, “Back on Speaking Terms: Dave and Oprah Chat Tonight,”
Kansas City Star,
Dec. 1, 2005; David Bauder, “Oprah’s Appearance Triples Letterman’s Audiences,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 3,
2005; Lisa de Moraes, “Oprah Gives Peace—and Letterman—a Chance,”
Washington Post,
Dec. 2, 2005; “Oprah Talks to Bill Clinton,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Aug. 2004; Tom McNamee and Mike Thomas, “Clinton Book Tour Gets Around to Oprah’s Set,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 23, 2004; Jeff Simon, “A Long ‘Life,’ ”
Buffalo News,
June 26, 2004; “Glitz Meets Grits,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 19, 1993; “President Clinton Signs ‘Oprah Bill,’ New Law to Protect Children,”
Jet,
Jan. 10, 1994; Mark Jurkowitz, “Clinton’s Charm and Confessions Play Well on TV,”
Boston Globe,
June 24, 2004; “Presidential Performance,”
Broadcasting and Cable,
June 28, 2004; “Performance of the Week,”
Time,
July 5, 2004; “Oprah Talks to Barack Obama,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Nov. 2004; “Living the American Dream,”
www.oprah.com
, Jan. 19, 2005; Dr. Ink, “A Look Behind the Scenes,”
Poynter Online
(
www.poynter.org
), Oct. 17, 2006; Noel Sheppard, “Bill O’Reilly and Michelle Malkin Take on Oprah,”
www.newsbusters.org
, Oct. 17, 2006; Matthew Mosk, “Oprah’s Couch for Obama Only,”
www.blogs.washingtonpost.com
, Sept. 5, 2007; “Late Night Jokes,” Oct. 5, 2009,
www.newsmax.com
; “Oprah’s Statement Regarding Gov. Sarah Palin on
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
”
www.oprah.com
, Sept. 5, 2008; Alex Leary, “Florida Republicans Say No to Oprah,”
The Buzz
(
www.blogs.tampabay.com
), Sept. 6, 2008; “Oprah on the Palin Rumors,”
www.extratv.warnerbrothers.com
, Dec. 4, 2008; Garance Franke-Ruta, “Oprah and Obama, Together Again,”
www.voices.washingtonpost.com
, Nov. 25, 2009; Lisa de Moraes, “Who’s Unwilling to Pull Punches with Sarah?”
Washington Post,
Nov. 18, 2009; Tina Brown, “Sarah Drops the Act,”
www.thedailybeast.com
, Nov. 18, 2009; Sharon Cotlier, “15 Questions with Bill Clinton,”
www.people.com
, May 22, 2008; “Late Night Jokes,” Sept. 5, 2009,
www.newsmax.com
; Dan Frederick, “Oprah to Host Obama Fundraiser,”
Top of the Ticket
(
www.latimesblogs.latimes.com
), July 7, 2007; Lynn Sweet, “Oprah’s Obama Fundraiser Sold Out?”
Chicago Sun-Times,
July 30, 2007; Soo Youn and Michael Saul, “Oprah Winfrey Raises $3 Million for Barack Obama,” New York
Daily News,
Sept. 9, 2007; John McCormick and Christi Parsons, “Winfrey Draws Rich and Famous to Obama Bash,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 9, 2007; Jonathan King, “The Oprah/Barack Affair,”
Montecito Journal,
Sept. 13, 2007; Richard Mineards, “From the First Canape to the Very Last Cocktail,”
Santa Barbara News-
Press,
Sept. 11, 2007; “Oprah Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Obama,”
USA Today,
Sept. 9, 2007; Tina Daunt, “Obama Finds Lots of Green in Oprah’s Meadow,”
Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 9, 2007; transcript,
Larry King Live,
May 1, 2007; Colleen Mastory, “Oprah’s Gamble,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 13, 2007; “Ellen DeGeneres Is New Favorite TV Personality as Oprah Slips to Number Two,”