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...Oprah and Geraldo should brace themselves. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is starting his own TV talk show. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: H-e-e-r-e's - Jesse? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Post-Sesame Depression (PSD), which has altered our power to imagine and create, causing us to believe in the mediocre and pay attention to television shows such as Entertainment Tonight? Has the first Sesame Street generation turned into a bunch of unimaginative college students worried about what Geraldo or Oprah or Phil has to say every...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: That Sesame Street Generation | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

...WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co- executive producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 20, 1989 | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Roger Clemens will take personality lessons from Oprah Winfrey...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Some Thoughts on the Off-Season | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

Morton Downey Jr. has turned foul temper into a TV style. Geraldo Rivera continues to test the bounds of tawdry sensationalism. Phil, Oprah and Sally Jessy race to outdo one another in pursuit of the odd, the aberrant and the kinky. But something even more bizarre and audacious is about to appear on the talk-show scene. Make way for . . . the nice guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Nice-Guy Talk Hosts | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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