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...Oprah has to monopolize 10 pages in Time, a magazine I rely on to address issues of somewhat weighty national and international significance. Instead, I am treated to excerpts from the journal Winfrey kept while filming the movie Beloved-excerpts that detail her insecurities as an actress and her pedagogical relationship with Jonathan Demme, the movie's director. He's a wonderful filmmaker, she writes, but more importantly, he has faith in Oprah. The on-screen adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel comes to theaters Oct. 16 and is the reason why Time's editorial staff developed a sudden interest...
...Oprah's fans--and I know they are out there--will undoubtedly jump to defend the woman who has won 32 Emmys and an Oscar nomination and who has distinguished herself as an advocate for victims of rape and child abuse. She has shown Americans, they would say, that a poor, black girl from Mississippi--words that Winfrey regularly uses on her show to describe herself--can succeed beyond her wildest dreams. Those fans certainly have a point. It's hard not to admire a woman who has obviously overcome much...
Over the years I have watched "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on a regular basis. Like many Americans, I have been entertained by her interviews with everyone from Michael Jordan to LeAnn Rimes to Meryl Streep. I've watched Oprah make potato salad with Patti Labelle, dance with Tina Turner and Gloria Estefan, and sing with Elton John. And I'll admit that on certain occasions--when a family is finally reunited or when a particularly homely homemaker is given the makeover of her dreams--I have been touched. Maybe even inspired...
...over the years I've also watched Oprah grow increasingly narcissistic and self-centered. When Steven Spielberg was a guest on her show last year, Oprah interrupted the director of Schindler's List to share with the audience excerpts from the journal she kept during the making of The Color Purple. We learned that Oprah was nervous before the filming began and impressed with her own performance. When John F. Kennedy Jr. came on the show, she could not fail to mention that she and Maria Shriver were the best of friends. Surprise, surprise. Two wealthy and prominent women obsessed...
Just this month, Oprah devoted an entire show to her "Vogue experience." Audience members were treated to a 45-minute peek into what it takes to transform a 44-year-old woman into a cover model--a bit too much information into the amount of make--up, hair gel, and manpower Vogue invested into America's "Every Woman...