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...Browsing through the top 25,000 most popular celebrity searches, the living significantly outnumber the dead in popularity. Oprah continues to be the most searched for celebrity (although those searches may also be for the Oprah brand; the woman and her empire are at times indistinguishable) over the last several years. There have been brief interruptions by Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Antonella Barba. But in the last two years, only one celebrity death has been able to rival the Oprah machine, if only for one week, at the beginning of February...
...During the days after Anna Nicole Smith's death on Feb. 8, searches for the departed buxom blonde outnumbered Oprah searches 25 to 1, making Anna Nicole the most searched for celebrity over the last two years. While a celebrity's death is certainly a trigger for an Internet search surge, there are other factors that give online life to the departed...
...Proving the power of an Oprah association, one recently departed celebrity has surpassed searches for living celebrities like Kate Beckinsale, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ultimate Fighting Champion star Chuck "the Iceman" Liddell. Its Gracie, Oprah's recently deceased golden lab. May she rest in peace...
...Oprah Winfrey has anointed Barack Obama as her "choice" in '08. By the sound of more than 20 million clicking TV remotes, she can determine the votes of her fans. Should an entertainer have such power...
...response to emailed questions from TIME, Oates clarified her stance, saying, "the tradition of personal memoir has always been highly 'fictionalized' - colored with an individual's own 'emotional truth' - and that the James Frey memoir would seem to be in this category. It would seem that Oprah Winfrey was judging the memory from a more literal perspective, but this makes sense since the great majority of her readers would expect memoirs and autobiographies to be 'true.'" She says that she has never read Frey's book and that she chooses to write fiction because memoirs today "strain credulity." The novelist...