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LOS ANGELES - Oprah Winfrey earned the rare opportunity to convert her media charisma into a monogramed TV channel. Now she's the one tasked with rescuing OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a disappointing first year.
It's a high-stakes, potentially ego-shattering challenge that could make the strongest woman or man flinch. But win or lose, Winfrey says she relishes the fight to turn OWN's fortunes around.
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Oprah Winfrey says she's not a lesbian, not even a little bit.
Her long personal and professional connection with Gayle King has sparked rumors that they are gay, but Winfrey denies it in an upcoming interview with ABC's Barbara Walters .
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Patti Jurkus said she gets chills each time she sees the video clip in which Oprah Winfrey shouts with extreme fervor, "We are going to Australia.
The iconic talk show host stretched out the ending of the word Australia like a patient whose doctor put a depressor on her tongue and asked to see her tonsils -- but Winfrey bellowed in her signature top-of-her-lungs shout.
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It was an inopportune time to get a call to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show.
But Judy Swierczek-Felipe is not one to question fate.
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Not just a farewell but "A Farewell Spectacular" is what they're calling Oprah Winfrey's shows this week.
We inflate our words for the simplest of reasons: we all need to be bigger than we are. If our words get bigger, maybe we do, too.
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Seldom are Glenn Beck and Oprah Winfrey mentioned in the same sentence.
But there are rumblings that Beck might follow Winfrey's lead and start his own cable channel when his contract with Fox News expires. The New York Times reported Beck has been mulling the idea for more than a year.
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A recent "Oprah Winfrey Show" about a 7-year-old mentally ill boy who also has a sensory-processing disorder has sparked concerns among some parents.
Hartley Steiner, an author and mother recently interviewed for this column, says she was happy to see pediatric mental illness portrayed in such a high-profile arena. But she has written to Winfrey to complain that all of the boy's problems come across in the TV show as only mental illness.
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NBC said Thursday it has reached a $45 million deal with Conan O'Brien for his exit from the "Tonight" show, allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years. oprah is subject of unauthorized bio An Oprah tell-all is coming in April, but Winfrey isn't the teller.
Crown Publishers announced Thursday that Kitty Kelley's 544- page, unauthorized "Oprah: A Biography" will be released April 13.
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NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey says she's not a lesbian, not even a little bit.
Her long personal and professional connection with Gayle King has sparked rumors that they are gay, but Winfrey denies it in an upcoming interview with ABC's Barbara Walters.
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Is there any surprise that behind the rise of a successful company there is a visionary leader? In our own generation, leaders like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page saw the possibilities of new technology to create innovative companies that have transformed our society. Meg Whitman, Mary Kay Ash, Sam Walton and Jeff Bezos each in a different way revolutionized the way we purchase products. Businesswomen Anita Roddick and Oprah Winfrey not only blazed new entrepreneurial paths, but also heightened awareness of the social responsibility of business.
While Jack Welch, Warren Buffet and Lou Gerstner did not create new companies, they performed perhaps an even more difficult task by transforming long-standing companies. Welch imagined that a 100- year-old bureaucratic c...