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...crews are lining up around the block to offer a good deed and a good cry. Heart-tugging giveaways have long been a staple of talk shows, but Oprah Winfrey upped the stakes last season with staggering bonanzas: new cars for an entire audience and gifts worth about $15,000 apiece for an audience of teachers. The Today show's "Live for Today" feature has sent a Salt Lake City, Utah, mom to sing on Broadway and an 81-year-old woman to the Kentucky Derby. Even Mark Burnett, producer of Survivor and The Apprentice, is developing a series...
Others, noting that Cruise's press rep is his sister Lee Anne DeVette, see an isolation from reality. "He probably feels that Oprah performance is a total, 100% success," says a Hollywood insider. "No one around him will tell him anything other than what he wants to hear," according to an acquaintance, who says Cruise doesn't read newspapers or use a computer. "He only knows what they show him." And what Cruise won't be allowed to hear is the giggling behind his back. "The worst thing for a matinee idol," the acquaintance says, "is to have people laugh...
...would be goofy indeed if a porn video could make Paris Hilton's career, while one grand-Oprah aria could torpedo Cruise's. But Hilton swims in less elevated waters--the septic tank--than he does. He's Tom Terrific, the very likable guy with the laser intensity and the prom-king smile. Through two busted marriages (with actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman) and questions about his commitment to Scientology (about which he's increasingly ardent--there was a Scientology tent on the War of the Worlds set), Cruise has frolicked in the clean mainstream. For ages. His claim...
...mean, [his public affection for Holmes] is a little freaky to watch, but that's what enthralls people about it." As an admiring publicist put it, "As usual, Tom has the media exactly where he wants them." That's for sure. All he did was spend an hour with Oprah--and, look, we wrote a page about him. --Reported by Lina Lofaro/New York and Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...says. Her second marriage over, she shares her home with four dogs, which pad along after her like an obedient pack. Many authors write for a few hours in the morning, but Scottoline works throughout the day and into the night, with breaks for daytime television ("Oprah is my girl crush," she gushes). She is a peripatetic writer, moving among four home computers...