Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Potent women in other fields are also welcome in the new Hollywood. Whitney Houston, who co-stars in this Christmas' Waiting to Exhale, has several projects in development, including a biopic of actress Dorothy Dandridge. And Oprah Winfrey just signed a five-year deal with Disney. "You won't see me shooting or stalking or being shot," she says. "I want to do films that enhance people's lives...
...Vicki Robin and her friend Joe Dominguez, who wrote Your Money or Your Life, which has grossed $3.5 million and sold 350,000 copies in just three years. In that time, Robin has given more than 600 press interviews, plowed through two 10-city book tours, appeared twice on Oprah and co-conducted financial seminars around North America. Before the book was written, she hadn't been on an airplane in 20 years. Now she has more frequent-flyer miles than a Boeing 727. Though her publisher books her into classy hotels when she is on the road, she buys...
...viewers into cleaning up. (Obviously there isn't much point in trying to shame the guests.) It won't be easy. Nearly every talk show that has tried "serious" subjects has floundered in the ratings, while those on a diet of sex and sensationalism have done well. Only Oprah Winfrey--held up by Lieberman as exemplary--has kept to the relatively high road, but her ratings (though still No. 1) are down...
...director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Charles Perez. The Oprah Winfrey Show was singled out as an example of acceptable programming...
...could buy. But it will be terrible for the criminal justice system if it works. The jury is being asked by him to do politics, and it's a recipe for disaster. Juries have to realize they're not political leaders and they're not an audience on Oprah. The most you can ask a jury to do is to pass judgment on who did what to whom. We have to understand that you cannot and should not solve social problems in criminal juries...