Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids wrote letters. They wrote to the President and the First Lady, to Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Steven Spielberg and other famous names. Laura Christopher, 11, wrote Colorado Senator Wayne Allard, saying, "We would like to know if you could contact the United States Government and let them know what is going on, so they can take action and put a stop to slavery!" To Hillary Clinton the kids and their teacher wrote, "You once said that it takes a village to raise a child. Now we would like you to know that it takes the whole world to save...
...visiting the House Judiciary Committee and appealing directly to the American people on matters both of substance ("There is no excuse for perjury. Never, never, never") and style (Starr confessed to having seen "any number of" R-rated movies), the special prosecutor was practicing the sort of age-of-Oprah personality politics of which his nemesis Bill Clinton, that great white whale of a President, is master. Not only is this ethically dubious on Starr's part; it's stupid: Would Ahab challenge Moby Dick to a swim meet? Would Leon Jaworski...
...that same reason we've just teamed up with our longtime partner, Caryn Mandabach, as well as Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey, in a venture called Oxygen, in which we will fuse a new cable channel with an Internet base to program for women...
...women who love them--can pack a movie house on an autumn weekend. The answer: $39.4 million worth. That's how much money Sandler's wan The Waterboy earned in its first weekend--a record for any non-summer three-day opening, and proof indeed that, while Oprah Winfrey may not be a film star, Adam Sandler surely is. This veteran of Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun Man? why?) now joins Will Smith and Jim Carrey as top movie money earners under 40. And in Hollywood, for just this moment, he is an even rarer commodity: a bargain...
...Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, slavery is explored in a subtle, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film. The screenplay grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast...