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DAVE CHAPPELLE fans, return to your couches. The comic, who disappeared to Africa just before the start of the much anticipated third season of Chappelle's Show last May, is back on TV promoting his new movie, Dave Chappelle's Block Party. He told Oprah Winfrey he'd like to resume his show, for which he signed a $50 million deal. "I don't want the money," said Chappelle, who spoke vaguely about giving it away. "I want to have fun again." His Comedy Central bosses have not heard from him, but they seem to be forgiving types. Says...
...Gates and his guests, the ability to reap information about their enslaved ancestors who had been heretofore unknown was an emotional discovery, one that caused Winfrey and Goldberg to “break down and cry,” Gates said...
...four-hour series, part one of which aired yesterday, chronicles the quests of Gates, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actress Whoopi Goldberg, astronaut Mae Jemison, musician Quincy Jones, televangelist T.D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and fellow Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as they trace their family trees all the way back to Africa...
...MILLION LITTLE PIECES Thou shalt not lie to OPRAH WINFREY. In a tone generally reserved for condemning genocidal dictators, the talk-show host drove home that commandment of publishing by shredding author JAMES FREY on live TV for fabricating parts of his 2003 book, A Million Little Pieces. "I really feel duped," said Winfrey, who chose the memoir for her book club, boosting it to last year's second-best-selling title. After thesmokinggun.com revealed that key details in the book--like Frey's claim of a three-month prison stay--never happened, Winfrey stood by him, calling...
...stories Frey tells in his 2003 memoir, A Million Little Pieces, are currently in dispute, but that last tale isn't. To date A Million Little Pieces has sold about 3.5 million copies, helped not a little by the fact that Oprah Winfrey chose it as her book club's third nonfiction title. She proclaimed Frey the Man Who Kept Oprah Awake at Night. The only book that sold better than A Million Little Pieces last year was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Frey's 2005 sequel, My Friend Leonard, didn't do too badly either...