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...fact, it was a kid who got the cooking-show host her new daily daytime talk show (debuting Sept. 18), the only program besides Dr. Phil that Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions has launched. Terry Wood, president of creative affairs for syndication giant King World (which is co-producing the show), arrived home from work a few years ago to find her daughter staring at one of Ray's Food Network shows, all of which, Wood was surprised to learn, the 6-year-old was deeply familiar with. "I said, 'What do you like about her?' And she pointed...
Hamilton is 50 miles from Buffalo, so I rarely watched Canadian TV. My influences were Stan Laurel, Harpo Marx, Jerry Lewis, Nichols and May, Jonathan Winters, Dick Van Dyke and Jackie Gleason. Those were the big heroes...
...Oprah Winfrey Presents. She's the name journalists use to get readers' attention, as I have here. She also, you recall, played the earth-mothery Sofia in Steven Spielberg's 1985 movie version of The Color Purple. And there's a character in the book, film and show called Harpo, which as all know is Oprah spelled backward and the name of her production company...
...ramshackle mansion, honeycombed with a floor plan impossible to master; Voltaire called it "a labyrinth without a thread." Likewise, while our Constitution opens with a stirring preamble, "We the people ...," it quickly settles into a tedious recitation of items, articles and sections, bulging in their seeming infinity like Harpo Marx's coat pockets, detailing all manner of governmental powers and functions--related to everything from dockyards to coinage. In fairness, how could anyone reasonably expect such a document to compete, in our romantic imagination, with another resounding with trumpet fanfares extolling life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just...
...Four Marx Brothers--Groucho, mute Harpo, Italianate Chico (pronounced Chick-o) and straight man Zeppo--weren't the fathers of every aggressive film comic from the Stooges to Sandler, they were surely their Dadas. And they're seen to best effect on The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (UMVD, $59.98), which gathers the five Paramount farces they made from 1929 to '33: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business and Duck Soup. Compared with the bounty of extras offered on the recent package of seven other Marx Brothers films, the new DVD is pretty skimpy: no commentary, no documentaries...