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There's no handbook for how to abdicate, but Oprah Winfrey offered up a pretty good model for monarchs who don't wish to go quietly. Employing her house blend of sentimentality, determination, pride and genuine emotion, the queen of all media announced that the 25th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show would be her last. "This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye," she said on her show, a tear brimming from each eye. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones." Those might be her business...
...Woods is equally ill suited to the kind of kimono-opening demanded by this approach. He has always been prickly with the press about his personal life. So his statements have trickled out piecemeal - the worst way. "I don't see him going Oprah," says Kevin Sullivan, a former White House communications director who now runs his own p.r. firm. "And I don't think he should provide any details of what went...
...Survivor: Alaska" [Nov. 30]: Since I have no intention of buying Sarah Palin's book, I decided to watch her on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is telegenic. She did not put her foot in her mouth. I don't blame Palin for taking advantage of her moment--writing a book, making money. That is the American way. But don't ask me to believe that she has anything to contribute to serious political discourse in this country...
...television ratings. But by some respects, he'll only become a bigger attraction. Tiger's on the cover of People. He's now moving up in the Jon and Kate-Brad and Angelina celebrity solar system. You know what happens next: an appearance on Oprah with his wife Elin, national contrition. And even bigger ratings at his next tournament. Unless, of course, Mrs. Woods throws the bum out. (See the top 10 Oprah prot...
...right that public fascination with Tiger will be even more intense the next time he steps on the golf course or appears on Oprah. (Which won't happen until those "lacerations" fully heal.) It will be a ratings bonanza. But he'll never quite be what he once was. He won't be speaking at any more presidential inaugurations. And in some ways, I think this might put even more pressure on him to re-establish his dominance over the competition. His failure to win a major this year obviously didn't damage his place in our corporate-cultural pantheon...