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...When I was a good girl, there were no cameras on," she says. "The minute I started arguing, there was a camera shooting me from every angle." She was vilified by viewers across the country. But she has since gone on to do Fear Factor and to play host to Style Network's Oscar coverage. "I was on track to become the biggest bore in history," she says. "Being on the show changed my path." Reality TV's Dr. Frankensteins have tremendous power indeed. And sometimes it pays to be the monster...
...MILLION LITTLE PIECES Thou shalt not lie to OPRAH WINFREY. In a tone generally reserved for condemning genocidal dictators, the talk-show host drove home that commandment of publishing by shredding author JAMES FREY on live TV for fabricating parts of his 2003 book, A Million Little Pieces. "I really feel duped," said Winfrey, who chose the memoir for her book club, boosting it to last year's second-best-selling title. After thesmokinggun.com revealed that key details in the book--like Frey's claim of a three-month prison stay--never happened, Winfrey stood by him, calling...
...called an award show, but it's really a TV show--the top-rated entertainment show of the year. And like the nightly news, The Apprentice and NFL Prime Time, the Academy Awards needs a host: someone to set the tone, keep things moving and undercut the sentiment and self-importance of the acceptance speeches. In short, be the person who both represents and mocks the movies on a night when the whole world is paying attention...
This March 5, Jon Stewart will step from behind The Daily Show desk onto the stage of the Kodak Theatre, becoming the first talk-show host to emcee the Oscars since David Letterman's career-braking stint in 1995. (He bombed with the "Oprah ... Uma" joke in his monologue and never quite recovered that night.) Stewart will also be credited or blamed for the size of the TV audience. Billy Crystal is the current ratings champ: his 2004 stint was the most-watched Oscar show since 2000, the last time he emceed...
...decades, Bob Hope was the face of Oscar night. He set the brash style, tweaking Hollywood's outsize egos, including his own. Hope was host or co-host of the event a record 17 times. (Crystal is second, with eight...