As legendary and iconic as he was and will forever be, he always got himself in some kind of trouble. Sadly, the biggest legacy he will have is the true potential he wasted when he was alive.
If cake is your BFF (best friend forever), if the call of Cheeto sends you into an orange-stained spin, if you start to drool at the mere mention of Cinnabon, and/or if you are mad at yourself for giving in and diving into a vat of chocolate, then pull up a chair and start clicking for an interview that just may change your relationship to food and, in turn, your life.
Audiences are far too splintered to fall in line -- and in love -- en masse with a single recording artist today the way they could for Michael Jackson in the eighties and nineties.
From Sly Stone and film scholar Molly Haskell to John Updike and Oprah Winfrey, Doris Day's appeal covers a remarkably wide spectrum. The Day phenomenon is obviously difficult to pin down.
You might think Oprah Winfrey's favorite color is purple but I'd say she is more partial to green, that is, psychological green.
Afghan Star is the perfect window into a country's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity. What I would normally consider frivolous entertainment is downright revolutionary here.
There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.
The president shouldn't overlook Michael Jackson's importance. He was far from simply an entertainer.
I can't help but compare the life and death of Michael Jackson to that of Elvis Presley. Both were globally famous and galactically talented.
What was once a hopeful demand becomes a site-busting tsunami, a brute digital force veiled in Mousavi green.
Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.
Stormy Weather tells how Horne has been an emblem of the complicated equation of race and talent, and a beacon to Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Janet Jackson, and Halle Berry.
This year alone, Oprah Winfrey has poured millions into schools on the South Side of Chicago; in Atlanta; and in New Jersey. She's remained almost entirely mum about the money.
Many women may benefit from hormone therapy. But treatment needs to be supervised by someone who can give women information in a fair and educated manner.
Is it just me, or is there an enormous surplus of people who think they are on this earth to give advice?
Perhaps it never occurred to Oprah that nobody is paying much attention to the likes of Somers or McCarthy because their story is a bunch of malarkey based upon anecdotes and stories.
Whatever case the reporters were trying to make about Oprah, it would have helped them tremendously to have done it in a dignified manner.
If people still trusted the health care industry, then it would be unnecessary to brand Oprah for "crazy talk" simply because she provides a forum for ideas outside of mainstream medicine.
Here's how to plan your own do-it-yourself version of a big celebrity party -- for a fraction of the cost.
It's been a tough week for Oprah. First a terrific Newsweek cover underscored her penchant to legitimize wacky medical claims on her show. Now June 22 Forbes dethrones her as the "most powerful celebrity."
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God Bles Our First Family !!!!
This has been in the back of my mind since the inauguration and it would be the right time for the first couple to have a baby.
I would like for them to have a son, he has three beautiful daughters. So a son would be pretty cool.
Three?
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Huh??????????????
BREAKING NEWS! Unlike hideously cadaverous, concave-bellied, coked-out "super" models, normal women have actual stomachs, and I, for one, am very hopeful that, as admired as she is, Michelle Obama will set a new, healthy body-image standard for young girls and women to emulate.
I think Michelle is a great First Lady.
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