Oprah Winfrey

Lee Daniels' The Butler Chronicles the Civil Rights Movement Through the Eyes of a White House Servant

Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey shine in a cast packed with talented actors

Bertolli Sponsors Emmy Swag Suite for Celebs

It used to be easy to shower celebrities with lavish gifts. Back in the good old days, companies put together gift baskets worth tens of thousands of dollars that they gave to presenters and other celebrities attending awards shows such as the Oscars and Emmys. Then those spoilsport Feds decided t ... More >>

New Words Added to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: Gastropub, Craft Beer Lesson on Semantics

Every year, Merriam-Webster updates its Collegiate Dictionary -- you know, that big book of words you referenced every once in a great while, in the era before Google -- with words that, for better or worse, have become part of our lexicon. According to the Associated Press, Merriam-Webster adds ab ... More >>

Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things: Wildly Popular Memoirist Talks to Us About Writing, and Dessert

Last night I told Cheryl Strayed that I wanted to curl up in her lap and talk about life. What I meant was that I am a fan of her writing. I had planned to enter the interview with a posture of professionalism, but very early on it became evident that in this instance the line between journalist a ... More >>

John Hodgman, Author of That is All , on the Trials of Being a Deranged Millionaire and Oprah's Secret Space Ark

Brantley Gutierrez, courtesy of DuttonFormer PC, John Hodgman hangs out with his favorite ferret skeleton​ Like a perfectly normal person, John Hodgman prowls the vast data tubes of the internet late at night...in his underwear....stuffing himself with kimchi. He devours factoids ranging from ... More >>

The Chew An Exclusive Clip of Michael Symon

​Daytime talk show The Chew, which may or may not rhyme with The View on purpose, premieres Monday, and we can't wait. Mostly because we're just so curious about what this show will really look like. It promises to be a groundbreaking and innovative take on exploring life through food, style ... More >>

Roger Ebert's Life Itself: Five Sexiest (Yes, Really) Passages in His Amazing New Autobiography

​ In America's favorite film critic's bestselling new memoir, Life Itself, we learn more about the former Siskel and Ebert host than we maybe strictly wanted to know. We meet Ebert the Catholic Schoolboy, Ebert the Intrepid Boy Reporter, Ebert the Pulitzer Prize Winner, Ebert the Cancer Surviv ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Millions of Milkshakes (Day 28)

Where an ice cream shop like Milk builds layered, elegantly crafted milkshakes replete made with superlative ingredients in carefully constructed combinations, Millions of Milkshakes devotes itself to diversity, an array of candy, fruit and syrup toppings in a mind-boggling array of permutations. ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!

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Infographic: Judge Judy is Bigger than Oprah Winfrey

​Do you watch Judge Judy? We don't, but apparently we're in the minority. Or maybe we just have day jobs. According to a nifty infographic from Paralegal, Judge Judith Sheindlin's show was bigger than Oprah's last year, and Sheindlin did it all without releasing a swarm of bees on her audience ... More >>

Amazing Rants Overheard at Venice Beach: Worried About Christian Slater

​ Ranter: An American guy in snappy Western shirt and a young woman with an Indian accent, both apparently baked Location: Venice Beach boardwalk Time: 5:30 p.m. on a Thursday Topics Covered: The complexities of American currency; the complexities of plural nouns ending in -s; the pleas ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY! MICHAEL GELBART

(Video) L.A.'s AIDS Healthcare Foundation Gets Rare Afternoon Condom Ad On 'The Oprah Show'

AIDS Healthcare FoundationJim Hat comes to after-school hours.​It's been slow going for condom ads on television. The first network spots appeared in 2005, and they're still somewhat of a rarity, particularly during after-school hours when teens would be exposed to them. The AIDS Healthcare Fo ... More >>

Sue Compton Named Pillsbury Bake Off $1M Winner

Courtesy of Pillsbury.com​After a culmination of events including raw footage of a contestant talking to her cupcakes before sending them off to be judged at Monday's bakeoff, Oprah announced New Jersey resident, Sue Compton, the Doughboy champion with her Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups.

Pillsbury Bake Off Winner To Be Announced Tomorrow on Oprah

Pillsbury​What's better than dough in a can, plump and flaky in less than 15 minutes? Getting paid $1 million for baking it into the tastiest Pillsbury dish in America. What's even better? Having Oprah announce the winner, live on her show. Those two powerhouses, General Mills and Oprah Winfre ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters

-- Oprah rebuilds her television set out of chocolate. No word on how much of it she ate. [Grub Street] -- The White Stuff: an author's exploration (in Gastronomica) of his mother's all-white eating habits. [Psycho-Gourmet] -- Biking the L.A. River, but with food. [Eating L.A.] -- Ubuntu's former ... More >>

Is Ellen The New Oprah?

​Warner Brothers executives say their research shows that audiences think The Ellen DeGeneres Show is as good as The Oprah Winfrey Show -- good news, because Winfrey announced she's ditching her program next year. NBC has said it will keep Ellen on its 10 owned-and-operated stations through 2 ... More >>

Uncle Remus Redux

Why Disney should revive Song of the South and bury The Princess and the Frog

Oprah Out (But How Will We Know What Books To Read?)

​Nikki Finke nailed it. Oprah Winfrey is signing off of her network show in 2011 to focus on her cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), which is scheduled to debut in January of that year, it was announced Thursday. The speculation is that Winfrey will have a show similar to her bloc ... More >>

Oprah's Move: Good luck or good riddance?

Is Oprah Moving To L.A.?

First, Conan, and now Oprah? Entertainment industry journalist Nikki Finke is reporting that Oprah Winfrey could be moving from her base of Chicago to Los Angeles to be closer to the home of her OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) channel, which would carry her namesake show in 2011.oprah.comJohn Trav-olta! ... More >>

Oprah Free Chicken Coupon Chaos: The Backlash, The Rain Check, The Reckoning

Poultry pandemoniumAs our nation's saga of poultry pandemonium continues, this just in: KFC locations to hand out chicken rain checks to poor disgruntled saps who were denied free grilled fowl despite their original Oprah-website-issued free chicken coupons. Confusion reigns in the Oprah free chicke ... More >>

Birdland: Oprah and KFC Infiltrate Pho Shop Golden Deli

And you get a grilled chicken! How far-reaching was yesterday's Kentucky Fried Chicken / Oprah.com coupon promotion? At the San Gabriel Vietnamese noodleshop Golden Deli, in proximity to the best fried spring rolls this side of Ho Chi Minh City, we spotted employees huddled at a back booth Thursday ... More >>

Oprah's Free KFC Chicken Coupon Chaos

When Oprah says "chicken" we say, "how many?" Hey, want some free chicken? Oprah is giving out a coupon for two free pieces of KFC grilled chicken on her website today until 11:59 pm CST, which is until 10 pm our time here in Los Angeles. The chicken comes with two individual sides and a biscuit. Y ... More >>

GO LA: Dead Poets, Dead Writers and Denis Leary

Plus lots more to mourn and celebrate in town (not necessarily in that order), April 3-9

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Behind the Talents of Stormy Weather and Bridezilla Strikes Back!

Touched by Oprah: The divine ascents of Cynthia Silver and Linda Twine

Suze Orman, I Love You

Financial guru Suze Orman is who I watch when it's 1 AM in the morning and I'm feeling stressed and can't sleep because I'm too worried about the future. I listen to her money advice (Don't spend!), snuggle up with calculator and budget notebook in hand, and take comfort in her boxy suits, even tha ... More >>

Mob Mentality with Jane's Addiction at El Cid, Nov. 20

By Siran Babayan Standing in the shower, thinking, what better way for my friends and I to spend the day than on our feet for over 12 hours surrounded by piss, puke, smoke, booze and the biggest douchenozzles in douchebaggery, with only a glimmer of hope of seeing a fully reformed Jane's Addiction. ... More >>

Hollywood Comings, Goings & Just Plain Bad Parking

The latest on the NYT, CAA, HBO and Oprah

On and Off the Shelf: A Bookseller on Selling (and Reading) the Novel

Those Skinny Britches: Grabbing L.A.'s Thinnest Jeans ...

... before the wide-bottoms take over

Big Gives

Some philanthr-Oprah

Kathy Griffin's Kodak Moment

A Q&A with the former D-lister

The Greg Proops Chat Show

Un-a-Frey-ed of the Truth

Truth to Oprah Power

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

Gummy Boobs

Tom Gets Physical With Oprah

The Gospel Hours

Networks retool primetime for religious Republicanism

My Life on the Couch

Bill Clinton’s Oprah Moment

The 2nd Annual List Issue

The Uncertainty Principle

How success taught Janet Fitch that you never know anything for sure

Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet

Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?

Confessions of a Celebrity Dope Fiend

Now, I Tell You What

Space-Age Whiz Kids

Crying Freedom

Jonathan Demme's beautiful Beloved

The Oprah Effect

The TV star has transformed the publishing world