Word: oprah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies, as the first mechanical art form, have always churned on assembly-line publicity. With the mid-'70s success of People magazine, and later + Entertainment Tonight, the celebrity industry went high tech and high gear. Nearly every hour of the TV day, from Today and Good Morning America through Oprah and Donahue to Carson and Nightwatch, is filled with show-biz interviews...
...event, which was held by Zeta Beta Tau, a primarily Jewish fraternity, pledges wore black face makeup and afro wigs and performed impersonations of Oprah Winfrey and the Jackson Five on stage. Students said that the Oprah impersonation had sexist implications because frat members pulled the pledge's arms back and forth saying "this is my girlfriend Oprah," hitting her and calling her "bitch," according to the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal...
...clues on the Victorian bad guy, while Who Murdered J.F.K.? claims to offer new evidence of an assassination conspiracy. In the meantime, Morton Downey Jr. shouts down guests nightly on his talk show; a parade of lesbian mothers, sex surrogates and rape victims tell their teary stories to Oprah and Phil; and several new series are in the works, including a Current Affair clone called Inside Edition and a new offering from Rivera dubbed The Investigators...
Broussard, 35, was in Los Angeles at the time but returned to Oregon last week. After first refusing to comment on the case, he later made a bizarre appearance on the nationally televised Oprah Winfrey Show. Grinning and smiling, smirking and haranguing, Broussard evaded all direct questions while blaming the death of his daughter on "the media." His only display of emotion came when he broke into tears as he complained about the media's treatment of him. His program has been unfairly likened to a cult, he said, and he has been called, in his own phrase...
...Oprah Winfrey overcame childhood abuse, teenage rebellion and TV imagemakers to become host of the tube' s most popular daytime talk show...