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Oprah Winfrey told the producer in charge of editing her talk show to "cut that boring beef guy out" of an episode on mad cow disease, said a former senior producer of the program. In testimony videotaped in December and played for jurors in Amarillo, TX, Monday, LaGrande Green, who was fired from the "Oprah Winfrey Show" last summer, said producer James Kelley told him that Oprah ordered pro-cattleman statements edited out of the final show. Ranchers are suing Winfrey, her production company and a food safety activist for $10.3 million, claiming that remarks made on an Oprah show...
...more her mad-cow disease guests talked, the more troubled Oprah Winfrey became. Food-safety activist Howard Lyman warned that America's cattle industry was inviting a mad-cow outbreak by its practice of "rendering," or grinding up, cows and feeding them to other cows. "Now doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that...
Alex, who hails from the Chicago area, wants everyone to know that Chicago is "no freakin' hick town." Will, who comes from Springfield, wants to add that Springfield is the capital of Illinois, and is therefore an important center of commerce and politics. We do not go cow tipping on weekends. We do not wake up at 4 a.m. every morning to slop the hogs...
...story opens, narrator Jane Goodall, 30 ("not the Jane Goodall, but sometimes I think it was my name that led me from men to cows, from cows to monkeys, and then to all my research and theories"), introduces the Old-Cow-New-Cow theory. Bull meets Cow. They mate. Soon, Bull wants New Cow. Jane, a TV talk-show booker, is, in a nutshell, Old Cow. After spending two heady months with the show's executive producer, Ray, she agrees to move in with him. They find the perfect apartment, she surrenders her precious Manhattan lease--then inexplicably...
...desperation Jane rents a room from her colleague Eddie, a quintessential Bull who, like Jane, is reeling from a broken love affair. While Eddie salves his loneliness by bed hopping with New Cows, Jane wallows in the feelings of unworthiness and unlovability endemic in Old Cows. "When Ray dumped me, all I wanted to know was why," she explains. "I almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving...