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...OPRAH WINFREY Like Cher and Tiger, she is one of a handful of people whose first name alone guarantees 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...
...Next on Oprah's book club: Dirty Harry Potter But Will Draco Respect Harry in the Morning...
...remarkable 15-year career after battling tendinitis in his right knee. AWARDED. JONATHAN FRANZEN, 42, the prestigious National Book Award for his best-selling novel The Corrections, about the dysfunctional Lambert family in middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight when he was disinvited to Oprah Winfrey's dinner after questioning the literary merit of her book-club endorsement. DIED. PRINCESS PREKSHYA RAJYA LAXMI DEVI SHAH, 49, of Nepal's royal family and younger sister of Queen Komal, in a helicopter crash at Rara Lake that killed four; in western Nepal. Princess Prekshya, separated from Prince...
...OPRAH MAKES CORRECTIONS TO LITERARY...
...novelist, a phone call from OPRAH WINFREY is like a house call from the prize patrol: the big check has arrived. The author appears on Oprah's show, and sales go through the roof. But not long after JONATHAN FRANZEN's literary best seller The Corrections got the nod, the writer got cold feet: "She's picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe," he said. Oprah's justice was swift. She did not withdraw the seal of approval, but she did the next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will...