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By Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Gay felt a stirring of anxiety, fearing that the host was going to take him to task for violating some aspect of talk-show etiquette. The host continued, "We have relationship experts on this show all the time, and many of them are couples, but there's something you do that I haven't seen any...

By webmaster@huffingtonpost.com Why does Pres-elect Obama have to "eclipse" Oprah? They're both two awesome individuals in their own right. They've both worked hard, both from humble backgrounds, & each deserve their individual, earned respect. ...

While on Oprah to talk about his life and promote his new film, Brad Pitt came face to face with one of his most crazed fans in the most uncomfortable Oprah moments of recent time. Via webcam, Oprah welcomed viewers to the show to ask ...

By webmaster@huffingtonpost.com Oprah's the most important American since Lincoln. She's the one woman to single-handedly put a black man in the white house, raking in over one million votes in the razor close primary: ...

By Kim Morgan Craig's Bond is a notable mixture of true grit and exciting cool. And though we love our Connery's, Moore's and Brosnan's the time was right for a so-called real Bond. The Art-House Bond: George Lazenby (1969) The Mid-Life Crisis Bond: Roger Moore (1973-1985)

By Gordon Marino The election of Barack Obama last week proved Alexis de Tocqueville's claim that democracies have a unique ability to correct themselves. But the returns also returned a more profound and philosophical truth-- the truth that the self is a layered entity; the truth that there can be rever...

By The Huffington Post News Editors A couple of months ago, there was a media kerfuffle when Oprah Winfrey said she would not have Gov. Sarah Palin on the show during the election. Now that the election is over, the door is open to the former vice presidential candidate. A representative for Oprah's talk show said that "we have ex...

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By The Huffington Post News Editors On election night Mr. Rove, the former Bush strategist, said on Fox News: "We've had an African-American first family for many years in different forms. When 'The Cosby Show' was on, that was America's family. It wasn't a black family. It was America's family." More on President Obama

By The Huffington Post News Editors CHICAGO — Short of a coveted ticket for a taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," an easier way to surround yourself with the presence of the queen of talk is to go to her official store across from Harpo studios in what was once a Chicago ...

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By The Huffington Post News Editors Oprah Winfrey will take her blockbuster talk show out of broadcast syndication and move it to her own cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, by 2011, it was revealed in the Discovery Channel's earnings call Friday morning. ...

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By The Huffington Post News Editors From the release: Sarah Gray Miller has been named editor-in-chief of Country Living magazine, Cathie Black, president, Hearst Magazines announced today. Miller, who joined Hearst in September 2007 as editor-in-chief of O at Home, the quarterly brand extension of O, The Oprah Magazi...

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By The Huffington Post News Editors Amber Lee Ettinger aka Obama Girl burst into tears at the barelypolitical.com party at Haven when her man was named the new president of the United States. "This is the day I've been waiting for," she told us. Kanye West: "HI MOM, OBAMA WON!" (His mom passed away about a year ago.)

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By Kerry Trueman The meat mafia branded Oprah a slanderer back in 1996 when she got mad about mad cow disease and famously swore off burgers. So, this time, a litigation-leary Oprah bent over backwards to give Agribiz apologists a chance to justify their cruel and inhumane practices. Their defense? Americ...

By Marianne Schnall EL: The meaning of life? [laughs] It's like the Monty Python movie. The Meaning of Life. The meaning of life. The meaning of life is life! What does that even mean: "the meaning of life"? I'm not kidding -- what do you mean when you ask that question -- like how do we live a meaningful life?

By Karen Salmansohn Throughout the ages, there's been one question that has consistently stumped even the wisest of gurus and prophets -- and even at times Oprah. "How... Throughout the ages, there's been one question that has consistently stumped even the wisest of gurus and prophets -- and even at times Oprah.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Henley-on-Klip - TV talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey had tears in her eyes as she asked parents to forgive her for alleged abuse at her girls' school here. "I've disappointed you. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry," Oprah told parents at an ...

By Chris Beha There's no need to drag Cormac McCarthy on television to discuss a subject -- his own sometimes wonderful novels -- about which he has no urge to speak and nothing much to say. And so it was that I joined her Book Club, to watch Oprah Winfrey sit down for a chat with the dregs of Cormac McCarthy's...