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...perhaps the theory is right. Some 70 million Americans, after all, watched Lewinsky on 20/20. (ABC called it the most watched "news" show ever, though it didn't beat Oprah's prime-time tete-a-tete with Michael Jackson, which the network somehow doesn't count as news in a world in which Monica does.) At least in its first days, the book was making the splash its publishers paid for. It seems we do in fact want to see more of Lewinsky, even if seeing her makes us feel a little dirty. Even the world's most expensive...
That won't be the couple's first brush with fame. Earlier this month West was on Oprah. That appearance sent West's awkwardly written tome into the Top 10 on Amazon.com's best-seller list. For those who doubt his story, West says, "I understand why people would be skeptical. I think it's because everyone knows you can't have more than one person living in a body." Well, exactly...
...also cited the wealth and influence of Oprah Winfrey over millions of people as evidence that American society "allows a woman who grew up as a sharecropper's daughter in the most racist state in the country, to rise to a position of power over the people who would have been her `oppressors' a generation...
Horowitz said he realized the Left's answer would be that Winfrey is "a token." However, Horowitz countered, "Oprah Winfrey isn't a token--Cornel West is a token. He's an empty intellectual suit, he's not that smart, and he got his place because of the scramble for black faces in the university by the liberal administration...
...second act of the play, the set is turned into the set of a talk show: the audience in the theater becomes the studio audience. The host is Delfina Treadwell (Randy Danson), an unholy combination of Ricki Lake and Oprah Winfrey intent on getting at her guest's deepest, darkest secrets. Her guests on this occasion are Michael and Livia Majeski. "What are you hiding in your heart?" she asks Michael. A series of revelations ensue when she doesn't believe Michael's story, necessitating a major reinterpretation of what has transpired...