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...soul could speak only in an Oscar Hammerstein lyric. A cheerleader for Team Katie, he bounded from his seat, genuflected before his startled host, jumped on the couch and pumped his fist, NBA-finals style. "I don't know what happened to you, boy," said Oprah Winfrey at her guest's baby-chimp antics. Still in an orgasmic daze, Cruise replied, "Man, I don't know either...
...foundation made national headlines in 2001, when the Smithsonian Institution rejected a $38 million gift from Reynolds after a dispute over her desire that the money be used to create a hall of achievement featuring Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, among others...
...Late Show - Pat Farmer and Kenny Sheehan, David Letterman stagehands, give Oprah Winfrey Show scripts a deadpan interpretation...
...names a year ago, such as Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine. Some belong on the list because of how they set the agenda outside their day job (Bill Gates, for his charity work) or make their daytime-TV job into a guide for how to live a meaningful life (Oprah Winfrey). Others may be less obvious but by dint of their inventions (Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who gave us the BlackBerry), writings (Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code) or bravery in the face of pain (Melissa Etheridge) are leaving their impression on the world...
Some reflected on their own experiences in the spotlight, like basketball great Oscar Robertson on LeBron James and Quincy Jones on Juanes, the Latin pop star. Some--like Citigroup's Sallie Krawcheck, who wrote about eBay's Meg Whitman; Gloria Steinem on Winfrey; and Richard Branson on Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard--make their judgments with a cool eye, but others, like Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono...