Ex-Employee Dishes on Life Inside Oprah’s Empire
This week we brought you excerpts from the gossipy new Oprah biography by Kitty Kelley. Today we heard from an ex-Harpo staffer who shared with us all sorts of juicy details about what life’s like working for the daytime diva.
Posts Tagged ‘entertainment’
Tales From a Disgruntled Harpo Employee
Friday, April 16th, 2010
By Like Kathy Griffin Says: If I Get Killed, Investigate Oprah
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Excerpts From the Biography That Oprah Doesn’t Want You to Read, Part 2
Yesterday we shared a bunch of excerpts from Kitty Kelley’s gossipy new Oprah biography. Today: Another batch of potentially scandalous snippets from the book, provided you’re willing to believe a 68-year-old woman who still goes by “Kitty.”
By She’ll Never Pay My Student Loans Off For Me Now…
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Excerpts From the Biography That Oprah Doesn’t Want You to Read
Celebrity profiler Kitty Kelley’s unauthorized Oprah biography was released today. But who has time these to sit down and read a 544-page book? We spent the afternoon going through the exhaustive tell-all to bring you the juiciest bits.
Much has been made in recent days about the claims contained in Kelley’s book, tawdry bits she says were assembled thanks to the more than 800 interviews she conducted with relatives, friends, and former colleagues. (Not surprisingly, Winfrey declined to participate in the project.) Is it all true? Who knows! But there are plenty of amusing anecdotes, a handful of which are below.
I Am In Legal Drama Withdrawal (And, Like, 50 Years Old, Apparently)
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I never thought I’d have to say this, but there are actually not enough Law & Order reruns on cable these days.
TNT, for instance, only has one episode scheduled for tomorrow. What the fuck, man? What happened to the days where you could find an old school episode of this show at any given time? It was like video-on-demand, but free!
And now I find out that new episodes of the mothership won’t even be back until March? Dude, come on.
(Also, Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent don’t count. Because SVU blows. Really fucking hard. And CI is good, but there’s a limit to how much Vincent D’Onofrio a guy can handle, you know?)
Maybe I’ll go watch that Hipster Grifter episode again…
30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy is TV’s Most Lovable Misogynist
Thursday, December 10th, 200930 Rock’s Jack Donaghy embodies every appalling aspect of American corporatism: racism, classism, and — most overtly — sexism. Yet we love him anyway, no doubt thanks to Alec Baldwin (whose charismatic performance makes Jack most misogynistic moments memorable).
In the real world, we’d probably pull an Edie Falco and slap Jack for half the things he says. Instead, we laugh — either goaded by the joke’s shock factor, or in simple amazement that NBC has the proverbial balls to air such political incorrectness.
More puzzling is how we — despite the fact that he’s a condescending, chauvinistic, womanizing jerk — don’t just hate him.
