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Oprah gets her own TV network

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2008-01-16 03:28:56 by Behind The Scenes TV in Behind The Scenes TV
Oprah Winfrey gets another dream fulfilled. The Queen of Daytime Television has landed herself an ownership to her new network as she and Discovery Communications announced Tuesday a deal which the Discovery Health network will be passed over to her. Winfrey will rename it OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network The 53-year-old award-winning host will...
 
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Fantasia And Oprah Bring The Color Purple Back To Hollywood As Musical

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2008-03-05 22:28:58 by Shawn Adler in MTV Movies Blog
...Oprah Winfrey aint exactly most people, Fantasia Barrino told MTV News, revealing that a movie adaptation of The Color Purple musical was in the works Thats going to happen and Im going to do it, the former Idol champ said, smiling broadly Fantasia just ended her run as Celie in the popular show , a role made famous twenty years ago by then...
 
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Couch 2: Tom Cruise Returns to Oprah

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2008-04-28 14:00:05 by Erin in Wild Bluff Media : Entertainment Examined
...Oprahs couch again this May. Big O better switch that baby out with something from Rent-A-Center fast! Cuz you KNOW Oprah dont sit on no faux Tom is going to burn our eyes out with a 2-part special: one part on the couch, in front of Oprahs kool-aid drinkers; and a second installment shot at Toms Telluride mountain prison, er- mansion. Hide...
 
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Uma...Oprah...Whatever

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2007-12-19 00:57:16 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...Oprah..." bit from the 1995 ceremony stands as evidence. His show runner Rob Burnett manfully took the hit for that when we spoke afterwards: "Completely, 100 percent my fault --I'm the guy. I should be out of show business. It keeps me up at night Letterman and Burnett were in the news this week as they prepared to come back to work with a...
 
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Oprah Interviews Cruise, Again

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2008-04-27 22:12:44 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
Oprah Winfrey interviewed Tom Cruise again and revisited the scene of the couch-jumping incident, among other things , reports Marc Malkin: The Telluride segment is set to air on Friday. Then on May 5, Cruise will return to Winfreys Chicago studio nearly three years after his couch jumping fiasco. So why so much Cruise? Its the 25th anniversary...
 
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WOMAN ON TOP: OPRAH #1 ON FORBES LIST OF MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITIES

2008-06-12 18:13:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
 
...Oprah Winfrey ranks as the most powerful celebrity in the world, according to Forbes latest ranking. In a sign of the progress made in terms of combating racial inequalities in America, another African American, Tiger Woods, occupies the #2 slot (and this doesn't even count Barack Obama's recent nomination as presidential candidate). Angelina...
 
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O DEATH, O DEATH: Two Perspectives, One End

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2008-02-28 19:43:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...Oprah Winfrey Show . I usually like to get all my literary advice, as well as thoughts on matters emotional, psychological, sociological and financial from friends, family and/or professionalsfor years its been good, solid policy for me to leave Oprah the hell out of as much as I possibly can But I weathered the embarrassment of watching a...
 
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Hello There...

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2008-07-30 19:31:00 by Invisible Woman in Invisible Woman.....Black Cinema At LARGE
...Oprah/Tyler Perry "romance" (lmao He just kept complaining to Oprah that hes this successful film director and yet the paparazzi ignore him, said a source close to Perrys camp. So [while on vacation in Italy] Oprah took him by the arm and said, come on, lets go take some pictures According to the source, Oprah made sure the paps got all...
 
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DAY 15: The Color Purple (1985)

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2007-08-15 21:01:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...Oprah Winfrey played the fiery Sofia, Willard E. Pugh played Sofia's husband Harpo (which, ironically, is "Oprah" spelled backwards) and Margaret Avery played the beautiful blues singer Shug Avery. Coincidentally, Spielberg had already worked with Avery over 12 years earlier in his made-for-TV movie Something Evil (in which she played a very...
 
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