Word: oprahism
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This burger joint has Ben Affleck’s stamp of approval. During a 2004 Oprah show, Affleck named Leo’s as the place to go in Cambridge for a quality cheeseburger. Forget about the blizzard outside—the charbroiled burgers will remind customers of summer barbeques by the pool. The shop makes over 300 soups over the course of the year, with chicken noodle being the fan favorite. And even vegetarians will have no problem warming up at Leo’s—head right for the soups, where artichoke, asparagus and lentil selections will...
Proposal: turn out more women voters by nominating Oprah Winfrey...
Your wife, actress Felicity Huffman, one of the Desperate Housewives, told Oprah that she understands the insanity of parenting. That worry you? I've had both kids by myself. She's right. I don't care who your kids are--sometimes you don't know whether you want to throw them out the window or leap out the window yourself...
...nice--except that Kerry didn't buy any of it. When he saw the gauzy stump speech his staff had produced from the memo, Kerry told the advisers aboard his plane--Shrum, Sasso, Cutter and McCurry--that the last thing he could afford now was to start sounding like Oprah. Not while Americans were hearing of hostage beheadings and car bombs every night on the news; not while Bush and Cheney were stoking the voters' fears with ads about wolves in the forest and hints of a postelection nuclear holocaust. A warm and fuzzy message now, Kerry said, would...
...alarmingly at ease with a bare-midriff, miniskirt and pumps? For the morning program's annual Halloween costume contest last week, Lauer got gussied up as socialite Paris Hilton, while co-anchor KATIE COURIC made for a Mini-Me DONALD TRUMP, and weatherman AL ROKER channeled a pre-diet Oprah Winfrey. Supposedly on some other networks people in blazers and pearls actually read news and interviewed guests. But frankly, we were too mesmerized by Lauer's shapely calves to notice...