Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...play, tentatively titled Bye, Bye, Verdi, is about what happens when "grand opera meets Grand Ole Op'ry," says Tolins. In it, "the Oprah Winfrey Company's funding is cut off, and it is forced to join forces with [Nashville's] Grand Ole Op'ry to fight Christian evangelist Holly Arethanthou, who wants to transform the opera house into a religious theme park...
Chicago' s freewheeling Oprah Winfrey poses...
Talk so often leads to more talk. Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz...
...America, a 4,000-mile chain of hand-holding Americans planned for May 25 and supported by nearly 1,000 celebrities. "The largest number of celebrities ever assembled," says the proud promoter. Prince, we are told, has "bought" Mile 1. Walter Payton has a mile of his own. And Oprah Winfrey has declared, "My mile will be for people who can't * afford the $10 (standing fee). No rich people in my mile." Ah, the little people...
...readers were not buying. Undaunted, Pinckney started running up $1,000 monthly phone bills trying to publicize the book. She got on a couple of local TV shows in the South, then in New York. Sales really started to take off after she did Oprah Winfrey's morning show in Chicago. They jumped again when she did the syndicated Sally Jessy Raphael Show, and after she made a network appearance on Donahue four weeks ago, the B. Dalton chain reported that its 10,000 copies sold out immediately. Pinckney had pushed and pulled her way to a publishing miracle...