Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black-themed, black-produced, modestly budgeted films, notably Eve's Bayou (produced by actor Samuel L. Jackson and due out Oct. 24). It also sets the table for two black-produced films with blockbuster potential: Amistad (produced by Debbie Allen and directed by Steven Spielberg) and Beloved (produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Jonathan Demme). And finally, it's a welcome little victory for cinematic wholesomeness. "Some of the black films today are not deep," says filmmaker George Tillman Jr., 28, who wrote and directed Soul Food, basing it on his own family experiences. "There are sex comedies, 'hood...
Gumbel does not believe in pursuing guests hotly either. He refers, with a touch of disdain, to the moment in 1995 when journalists were competing for an on-air interview with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. "Diane, Oprah, Barbara, Stone all struggled for that interview," Gumbel notes. "When one of them lands it, to what extent has his or her capacity to possibly engender the person's anger been compromised? By agreeing to be on, that person has in a sense granted the reporter a favor." He continues, "Will I make a phone call [to help secure a guest...
Despite the weepy goodbye letter Hillary wrote in her syndicated column last week (I would have killed her before I died), asking journalists to leave her daughter alone, the Clintons permitted move-in day to be a public event. The Clinton Administration, after all, has fine-tuned an Oprah-style culture of public emoting. And emote they did. Mom shopped for supplies with Chelsea; Bill packed and then carried boxes. Last Wednesday, as Clinton was working on answers for questions on the tobacco settlement, spokesman Mike McCurry told him to prep for Chelsea questions as well. The President winced...
...OPRAH WINFREY Talk queen signs through 2000. She and her producers are happy, and Toni Morrison is ecstatic...
Gregory L. Hart '01, an enrollee in "Justice," said the class was taught "Oprah Winfrey style...