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...mostly giving up the book club now, maybe it's just part of her larger slow-motion retirement. Last month Oprah's company Harpo announced she would leave her show after the 2005-06 season. She has played with the idea of quitting before, but wrapping up her book club may be her way of saying, Look, I can quit while I'm ahead. The cities of Chicago and New York launched book projects that attempted, as she did, to mobilize whole populations to read the same novel during the same month. Whole populations shrugged. What mere government has Oprah...
...recognition. Winfrey, 47, has ruled as the queen of daytime talk television since the mid-1980s. Her show now airs in 112 countries. Her seal of approval for a book guarantees skyrocketing sales. And last year she pulled off the most successful magazine launch in history. Winfrey's company, HARPO ENTERTAINMENT, includes Internet ventures, rounding out her TV, film and publishing deals. Reigning as the nation's top tastemaker, she is worth an estimated $800 million, with a fan base whose loyalty and buying power are unrivaled...
...truism: he who is funniest while performing is rarely appealing when the camera stops. In Groucho's case, his wit didn't abandon him off the set, but the man Kanfer discovers behind the joker is no fun at all. By the time he breaks up with Chico and Harpo, Groucho has become a crabby miser, shamefully manipulative of his wives and children. You wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have this guy as a member...
Commercial women's magazines are famous for defeating efforts to alter their standard formula, but none have ever encountered an editorial director who is also the host of an enormously popular women's magazine-on-the-air. O, a joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Entertainment Group and Hearst Magazines (which is printing 1 million copies of the first issue), is produced in New York City by a staff headed by editor in chief Ellen Kunes. A small, quiet, blond woman rendered even paler by the fluorescent bulbs of her office, Kunes was explaining the magazine last week with...
...Portland when I asked for a raise in salary but I don't think anyone heard me. I make a practice of speaking every time Chico makes a grand slam, so you can look for another speech in 1937. Regret I can't get Zeppo in this wire. HARPO MARX Culver City, Calif...