Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since last year, OPRAH WINFREY, the greatest force in television, has practically saved the alphabet. It's simple. Oprah selects a title for the book-discussion club she launched on her show last fall. Then everyone in America buys it. This gives her the market clout of a Pentagon procurement officer. Architect FRANK GEHRY saw a long struggle culminate in a huge achievement. His $100 million Guggenheim Museum is scheduled to open later this year in Bilbao, Spain...
...book clubs and reading groups. At the least, it appears, reading books (or listening to them in the Jeep) is to the 1990s what gymgoing was to the '80s: something we plan to do, something we want to do and, by all appearances, something everyone else is doing, even Oprah viewers. Perhaps primarily Oprah viewers...
...that seemed half party, half support group--an old college friend (male) comes on to Ellen, who slowly realizes that she is attracted to the friend's female colleague, played by Laura Dern, a close friend of DeGeneres' in real life (a description that should not be read into). Oprah Winfrey, in a surprisingly droll and low-key performance, plays Ellen's therapist. A whole flock of other celebrities--also friends of DeGeneres', including Demi Moore, Melissa Etheridge, k.d. lang and Billy Bob Thornton--showed their support by doing cameos on the episode...
...companies that sell to urban young groovoids. But Hilfiger's getting the wrong kind of attention. E-mail groups run by African Americans and other minorities--core Hilfiger clientele--have been getting messages urging them not to buy Hilfiger clothes because of racist things he allegedly said on Oprah. The rumor spread so fast that Oprah's producers received dozens of calls wanting to know if it was true. The clothing company would not speculate whether the Web traffic was an act of malice or idle talk run wild, but Hilfiger has started an E-mail campaign...
...NEXT ON OPRAH: BARBARA...