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...have the words to express the sadness I feel." But there's a decent chance the prolific Greene may find a way to capture an audience again. "Bob's one of the most commercially astute journalists I know," says Warren. "There will be a book and an Oprah appearance a year down the road." --Reported by Marguerite Michaels and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...everything else, reporters keep calling and reminding Genelle that her very existence is newsworthy. Time-consuming TV appearances--she has done Oprah, British TV and CNN--have distracted her, the cousins say. "People need to see the real Judy, not 'Genelle,' and the media need to stop portraying her as this amazing, perfect survivor," says Gail. "What she needs is time for peace and reflection...
...comes the scratchy voice of a muezzin revving up his loudspeaker for the afternoon prayer call. Sana and her family live in a wealthy suburb of Lahore, Pakistan, where her satellite television pulls in the standard Pakistani and American fare: MTV, Friends, syrupy Pakistani romances, a few minutes of Oprah until something better comes along. But a year ago, the images stopped being such a laugh...
...those dangly cell phones and voices like chainsaws. You'd like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion of the right to be cranky. Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing. Oprah is to blame for this, and the whole Onward & Upward, Little Engine That Could industry that has made smiliness obligatory. Look at the Clintons...
...therapy-speak, responding that her relationship with her father was such that she felt it was not "healthy" for her to be around him, especially because she is now responsible for a small child (a recently adopted baby boy). Sounds as if they could use a good hour with Oprah and Dr. Phil...