Word: oprah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time you saw an actor who was sporting only an oversize silver button where a bow tie is normally worn, you may have surmised that he'd somehow lost his tie on the way over. As this actor had made his way past the cheering crowds toward Oprah Winfrey's microphone, you guessed, a particularly impressionable fan swooned at the sight of him, cut herself on the curb and was saved from bleeding to death only by his quick action in whipping off his bow tie and pressing it into service as a tourniquet...
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THAT decent man since the events in the film? Most date the start of Letterman's downfall to his hosting the Academy Awards last March. It should have been the capstone to his coronation; instead, it was a critical fiasco. Letterman's mocking irreverence ("Oprah...Uma") fell flat with the Hollywood crowd, and with most viewers. In truth, his performance wasn't all that bad, but it foreshadowed his ratings decline. Even though that drop can be explained largely by CBS's prime-time collapse (which has reduced his lead-in audience) and the loss...
...which John Mack, a Harvard professor of psychiatry, publishes a book on the abduction of humans by aliens--he is particularly fascinated with the way aliens inseminate our womenfolk--and...What? Is fired? Denied tenure? Hardly. Finds himself with a best seller, a spot on Oprah and a fistful of Rockefeller-family research money...
...OPRAH AWARD: Representative Enid Waldholtz said she trusted husband Joe with her money "because I was weary of always being the strong one." In return, she said, he stole a fortune, broke campaign laws and got her to sign a phony document while she was doped up on postpartum painkillers...
...interview, when broadcast in Britain, was a ratings smash. Perhaps it even topped Oprah's thoughts on lesbian mothers whose transgender children like to play with cake doughs--or Ricki Lake's slightly more racy exploration of "Hot and Heavy Overweight Women Who Like To Sleep Around." Diana's coy smiles and canned answers seemed to have greater appeal than these other staged circuses, maybe because she is seen so seldom on the talk show circuit. Or maybe it's because the interview was conducted by the venerable and home-grown British Broadcasting Corporation. Or maybe it was because...