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Oprah Winfrey Joins Obama at His Birthday Dinner Party
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama celebrated his 49th birthday at a trendy Chicago restaurant on Wednesday night with a small group of close friends, including superstar Oprah Winfrey and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett. Obama flew to Chicago in the afternoon of his birthday without his family: First Lady Michelle is in Spain with Sasha, 9, at a luxury resort on the Mediterranean and Malia, 12, is off at overnight camp for the first time. Jarrett and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel flew to Obama's adopted hometown on Air Force One with the president. While Obama is close to both, ...
Chelsea Clinton's Wedding: Partying Till 4:30 a.m.
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyFirst came the outdoor "I do" part of the Chelsea Clinton-Marc Mezvinsky wedding weekend at the opulent Astor Courts estate overlooking the Hudson River on Saturday, complete with the groom stomping a glass at the end of the interfaith ceremony. That was before sundown. Then came a pair of joyous celebrations just steps away: a seated dinner and dancing for some 400 guests inside a structural windowed tent lit by chandeliers, and an after-party that began around 2 a.m. and rocked on until 4:30 in the private mansion's glass-roofed tennis court. The festivities ended with a Sunday brunch of ...
Chelsea Clinton's A-List Wedding: Few Details, Many Questions
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyTo the roaring, screeching Amtrak trains approaching Rhinecliff station from the north or south, add the occasional thwack-thwack-thwack of helicopter rotors. Do those choppers carry Secret Service agents trying to secure the entrance to Astor Courts, the Versailles-inspired private mansion above the Hudson River, where former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is set to marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, her great pal since their teenage days in Washington who became so very much more in recent years? Or have those whirlybirds been hired by TV crews and reporters seeking dramatic aerial ...
Why Black Women Need a Better PR Campaign
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailySaturday morning I spent an hour trying to convince a local radio host that I wasn't an ABW -- angry black woman (an acronym I'd never heard before and won't be using with any frequency). I don't know how well I did, because these days it's nearly impossible to prove my positive side amid a flurry of articles, books and movies about how very mad I am. Fine, fine: I did write a book called "Bitch Is the New Black." And, to be honest, I am mad, but not for the reasons Tyler Perry thinks. What gets my blood boiling (and my fingers typing) is the fact that it's 2010 and the line on black women is ...
Ponzi Scheme Wipes Out Author Jacquelyn Mitchard
By Mara Gay - AOL News(June 28) -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the best-selling novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," says she has been virtually wiped out by a $190 million Ponzi scheme. The author, a mother of nine children in Madison, Wisconsin, is the victim of an international Ponzi scheme masterminded by Trevor Cook, a Minneapolis trader who bilked over 1,000 investors out of millions of dollars. Stefano Paltera, AP Author Jacquelyn Mitchard, here in 2005, whose book "The Deep End of the Ocean" was the first novel Oprah Winfrey chose for her book club, said she lost her fortune in a Ponzi scheme. Until ...
Rielle, Oprah and Zen: America's Truth-Off
By Lizzie Skurnick - Politics DailySince the publication of "Game Change," the revelations of a sex tape and the alarming photo accompaniment to Rielle Hunter's GQ interview, we can safely say that dirt on the John Edwards scandal has entered an era of diminishing returns. America could handle the soap-worthy battle between a cancer-ridden wife and a wanton home-wrecker, but even the most salacious viewer knows that when the lady of the house takes off her pants and kneels next to the stuffed Elmo, it's time to pick up your toys and go home. ...
5 Questions for Oprah as She Takes on Prime Time
By Mara Gay - AOL News(April 8) -- Oprah Winfrey isn't keeping her day job. The queen of the talk show announced Thursday that she will take on prime time after her daytime show ends its 24-year run at the end of the year. Her new show, "Oprah's Next Chapter," will air in the evening and will feature Winfrey interviewing celebrities in "unexpected places" like the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China, a press release said. Chris Pizzello, AP Oprah, shown here following the Academy Awards in March, will be gabbing with celebs on her new show, "Oprah's Next Chapter." "I'm going to take viewers with me, going to ...
Oprah Winfrey Settles Defamation Suit
By not in system - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA (March 23) -- Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday. The lawsuit by former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane claimed Winfrey defamed her in remarks made in the wake of the 2007 sex-abuse scandal at the school. The headmistress said she had trouble finding a job after. A trial had been set to start next week, and Winfrey and several schoolgirls had been expected to testify. A joint statement released Tuesday by ...
'Life' on Screen: 22 Hours of Nature at its Most Riveting
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe United Nations has declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity, audience members at the Washington, D.C., screening of "Life," the Discovery Channel's new 11-part series, were reminded this week. It was a fitting introduction for the documentary, which looks at some of nature's most unusual creatures, while worldwide, it is estimated that three species go extinct every hour -- a rate that has many concerned about environmental impacts, as well as the possibility of a planet that is increasingly less diverse. ...
Ellen DeGeneres, the New Oprah
By Helena Andrews - Politics Daily"Ellen is a much more likable personality than Oprah," according to newly released media research commissioned months ago by Warner Brothers, the company that produces "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." In a post-Oprah daytime, a new diva must be crowned, and Ellen is the heir apparent. But apparently Warner Brothers didn't want anybody to know about the talk show host's obvious meteoric rise (Hello? "American Idol") because TV executives are suddenly "sensitive about comparisons of the two women." Since DeGeneres appeared with Winfrey on the cover of O Magazine the very same month the talk-show ...
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