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Background: Clapprood, a single parent of two, lost her father at a young age and was briefly on welfare. She graduated from Brookline High and presently attends Boston University Law School. She has appeared on "Oprah" to discuss balancing a career and family obligations...
...Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want; that phony British accent), and the Top 10 Least Popular Attractions at Disney World (Oprah Mountain; Peter Pan's All- Male Cinema; Muggyland). For connoisseurs, there's the very first list (Top 10 Words That Almost Rhyme with Peas); for doubters, a list on the back cover explaining the Top 10 Reasons to Buy This Book (No. 5: you're mentioned on page 43). Maybe...
...people who have had mind- expanding encounters with UFOs. The show will air mostly in sober-minded Sunday time periods and deal with such unsensational topics as the plight of the poor and the future of the family farm. Yet TV's newest talk show could easily rival Oprah's or Geraldo's on the controversy front, largely because of its host. He's a newcomer to the TV gab circuit, if not to controversial gab on TV: Jesse Jackson...
BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, debuting May 1, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Oprah Winfrey, a bit slimmer but just as soulful, reprises her starring role as Mattie in a weekly series based on her hit mini-series about women in an inner-city black neighborhood...
...they relentlessly push tips. Certain restaurants are musts. In Los Angeles it's Le Dome or the Ivy for lunch, Morton's or Spago for dinner. In Chicago the image- conscious can be found at the Establishment-oriented Pump Room or the more hip Eccentric, partly owned by Oprah. In New York City the Russian Tea Room is best for the show-business throng, Elaine's for the print glitterati, Le Cirque for the well-heeled ladies who lunch. But to endure on the job, a gossipmonger must also be a tireless attender of parties. Syndicated columnist Karen Feld...