Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...characters?ladies who can take it on the chin and still look good in a skirt (and who are often accompanied by blue-collar stiffs with sensitive, yearning souls). Since she began writing in 1989, Kitagawa has become a one-woman production company?blend David Kelley's productivity with Oprah's sassiness and you approximate Kitagawa's flavor?conceiving and scripting 11 different drama series, including last year's The Smile Has Left Your Eyes and Beautiful Life. Her one-hour shows have been the top-rated hits in Japan and have gone into syndication in half a dozen countries...
Like other vertically integrated personalities with carefully crafted images--Oprah, Martha Stewart, Madonna, Sean (P. Diddy) Combs and Russell Simmons, plus product-endorsing athletes such as Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan--celebrity designers capitalize on the fact that popular approval equals influence, whether it's a book-club recommendation, a pistachio-colored pillowcase or a velour tracksuit...
...gulped for air and cried and felt the universal female emotion of wanting to wring her husband's neck. There's a couple million votes right there. Martha just needs to don a hairshirt under her perfect Oxford blouse, confess to misjudgments as if she's on Oprah, show contrition, ask forgiveness. She can continue to say she's innocent, but at the same time open herself up to the mercy of public opinion. It's the only way to make schadenfreude give way to sympathy. Who knows? One day the First Lady of Domestic Arts could...
...book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle, 54, describes how he passed through suicidal depression to spiritual bliss. Imagine his bliss when he discovered that his book had been endorsed by Oprah. Her relentless touting has helped Tolle's book build a cult following since its publication four years ago. Now in its 20th printing, with 800,000 copies sold, it has spent four months on the New York Times best-seller list...
...Good question. I don’t know. Oprah? Martha Stewart, after she gets out of prison? Whoever it is will be rich, privileged and probably a snob...