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...Silent In 1985 Elie Wiesel [INTERVIEW, Feb. 6] received the Congressional Gold Medal from Ronald Reagan "in recognition of his ... contributions to world literature and human rights." In describing Wiesel's achievements, TIME wrote of his witnessing the Holocaust and his memoir Night, currently a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Here is an excerpt from that article [March...
...probably could have kept going well past five. Now try the same exercise with black women. If you’re anything like most of the people I’ve talked to, you’ll start struggling around three—Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and, um, Oprah? It isn’t as if black women haven’t been present and active the entire time. Contrary to widely held opinion, black women have made huge contributions to American history that go well beyond simply giving birth to and supporting black men. Women such...
...titular heroine in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge” in 2000. She was the first African-American to receive the Best Actress Oscar for her phenomenally tortured performance as Leticia Musgrove in “Monster’s Ball” in 2002. And, most importantly, Oprah is a huge fan. And you don’t question Oprah….You just don’t. But we turn now to three infamous duds in Berry’s otherwise outstanding oeuvre: “B*A*P*S,” (short...
...suddenly become cool. Desperate husband Carlos on Desperate Housewives described his parole officer as one, while the term came up in an episode of the generally un-menschy ?Jake in Progress.? John Lithgow was just singing about them on Broadway in ?Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.? And a guest on Oprah even described her as ?Mensch of the Year? last month for admitting her mistake in initially defending fact-challenged best-selling author James Frey. Just in time for Valentine?s Day, TIME Correspondent Wendy Cole spoke to Mensch expert Robin Gorman Newman about her new book How to Marry a Mensch...
There's a lot of reasons you could be jealous of Barack Obama: he's a great public speaker, so handsome that after every public event long lines of mostly women rush to get a picture with him, and counts Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Warren Buffett among his admirers. And he just won a spoken-word Grammy for for the audio version of his memoir, "Dreams from My Father." But here's the killer: He doesn't really gain weight. People who've met with him note he's endlessly snacking on nuts or whatever...