Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...promote a women's film, Hollywood marketers often return to the old model. They roll out the release slowly, court the critics, aim for the female audience by advertising on Oprah. Yet there seem to be built-in conventions: a pensive tone, a love for the victim and often an ensemble cast of stars. "Notice that there's rarely a movie with just one female in it," says Amy Pascal, chairwoman of Columbia Pictures. "You need three of them to equal...
Some of the happy-talk books may help their readers get through one or two dark nights of the soul. But the wisdom they ladle out is often scattershot, anecdotal, an Oprah sermon in paperback. Few of them are written by psychiatrists or psychologists; few are based on solid research...
...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...
...young women, in Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, that they had better get married pronto if they ever wanted to have children. With bad men on one side and indifferent men on the other, biological and career clocks hammering in both ears--and with Oprah no longer serving up female-positive fiction to her book club--what was the stressed-out career woman...
COOPER: I would say Oseola McCarty [the Mississippi laundress who donated a $150,000 scholarship to the University of Southern Mississippi in 1995], Oprah Winfrey, my mother. And Barbara Bush--she's very comfortable with...