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...around the White House as the only person besides Laura Bush who can tell the President he's wrong, now has the job of bridging the chasm between the U.S. and the Muslim world. Hughes, 49, spoke with TIME's Elaine Shannon and Jay Carney about how soccer and Oprah figure into her role as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy...
...needs to be in at the takeoff, not just the crash landing." ANY SURPRISES DURING YOUR MIDDLE EASTERN LISTENING TOUR LAST YEAR? When I was in Saudi Arabia, women there kept saying, "Your media said this, your media said that," and I finally realized they were talking about an Oprah Winfrey show about domestic violence in Saudi Arabia. Because they don't understand the independence of our media, they thought I put Oprah Winfrey up to that...
...When Oprah Winfrey has declared you "more than a politician," when you've had dinner with Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg and received 300 speaking invitations a week, things are going well for you as a freshman Senator. So you might forgive Barack Obama for being cautious in his first year on Capitol Hill. Why should he risk blemishing an almost perfect public persona that could help him win the presidency one day? But last month Obama finally found his cause: he wanted to lead Democrats in the push for lobbying and ethics reform. The issue seemed perfect...
DAVE CHAPPELLE fans, return to your couches. The comic, who disappeared to Africa just before the start of the much anticipated third season of Chappelle's Show last May, is back on TV promoting his new movie, Dave Chappelle's Block Party. He told Oprah Winfrey he'd like to resume his show, for which he signed a $50 million deal. "I don't want the money," said Chappelle, who spoke vaguely about giving it away. "I want to have fun again." His Comedy Central bosses have not heard from him, but they seem to be forgiving types. Says...
...should have trusted the Lionsgaters. Handed the tough sell of a multistory drama about racial tension, they made bold decisions: to open the film in May and play it on 1,900 screens, get the cast on Oprah, then saturate the film community with 130,000 DVDs. "Nothing sells itself," says co-star and co-producer Don Cheadle, who was pleased when Crash became the right kind of controversial film--"the quintessential watercooler movie...