Since the day the late Gene Siskel asked me, “What do you know for sure?” and I got all flustered and started stuttering and couldn’t come up with an answer, I’ve never stopped asking myself that question. This month marks a big breakthrough for me. I’ve always known that at my core I’m a teacher. […]
Oprah Winfrey has been slapped with a trademark infringement lawsuit over her use of the catchphrase, “Own Your Power”. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in a New Jersey federal court, Simone Kelly-Brown (CEO of Own Your Power Communications, Inc.) claims her company has been around since 1996 … providing “a personal brand of self-awareness and […]
Things haven’t been going so swimmingly over at Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. The network–which kicked off with a bang on January 1– has been struggling as of late. So much so that an already-busy Oprah has made herself the network’s new CEO. When her talk show wrapped up in May, Oprah made it clear that […]
The hardest working woman in showbiz is back to work after a brief hiatus. After relieving Christina Norman as CEO of her OWN network, Oprah tweeted a pic of herself in her new office digs in L.A. “Here I am “CEO-ing” in my new office at OWN in LA!!” Winfrey’s channel, which went live in […]
Maria Shriver caused a real frenzy Tuesday night at Spago in Beverly Hills when she and her children had dinner with her friend Oprah Winfrey. Cameras went nuts as the two women exited the restaurant, along with Shriver’s son Christopher – who looked good after recovering from his boogie boarding accident – and her daughter […]
The decline in Oprah Winfrey’s media empire continues, with reports emerging of a major dip in ad sales for her O Magazine. According to The Hollywood Reporter, O, one of the nation’s most profitable publications, has lost 31.4 percent of its ad sales, dropping 81.4 ad pages in August. “O’s ad page performance is pretty […]
Oprah Winfrey is back in the USA after spending time with her “girls” at the school she opened in South Africa, but don’t fear, ladies, Miss O will be returning soon in the role of teacher. “They were all stressed for tests, but doing fine,” Oprah emailed fans about her students. “No major crisis this […]
Call her Dr. Oprah Winfrey! On Friday, Oprah visited South Africa, where she was given an honorary doctorate degree in education from the University of the Free State. Winfrey dressed in formal cap and gown for the affair. Guests in attendance report that she was moved to tears while on stage for the presentation. The […]
O.J Simpson has reportedly confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, Nicole Simpson Brown. Oprah made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the disgraced football player to confess to the killing. “I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” she said at the National […]
It has been less than a month since the last episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show aired and already the Queen is back on her grind, this time to rejuvenate her somewhat ailing television network. After sprinting to the starting line and bursting through the gates, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has since watched its ratings […]
Oprah Winfrey says she was relieved to wrap up her 25-year talk-show run last month, but now she has a new worry: revamping the struggling cable network that bears her name. The Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN, is off to a sluggish start. Despite investing $215 million in programming, with more to come, Winfrey has […]
From her impact on the national lexicon, to propelling the careers of numerous celebrities and figures and to the countless self-help revelations and mantras that have helped us shape our lives, Oprah Winfrey’s influence will be long cemented in the public conscious. As the daily dose of wisdom that has become the Oprah Winfrey show […]
