Authors: Kitty Kelley
TV/DVDS/VIDEOS:
Archive of American Television interview with Phil Donahue, May 9, 2001 (nine parts, viewed on YouTube);
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set);
Late Show with David Letterman,
aired July 19, 2006; “Women Leaving Men for Other Women,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
aired Mar. 6, 2009; “Evangelist Ted Haggard, His Wife and the Gay Sex Scandal,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
aired Jan. 28, 2009; “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E
Biography
special, aired Jan. 16, 2000.
INTERVIEWS:
Gloria Steinem, June 5, 2007; Senator Robert Dole, May 23, 2008; Phil Donahue, Aug. 9, 2007; correspondence with Liz Smith, Sept. 25 and Sept. 26, 2007; confidential source, July 7, 2008; confidential source, Aug. 22, 2008; Rocky Twyman, May 20, 2008; Erica Jong, Dec. 17, 2006; Marty Ingels, Dec. 21, 2006; confidential source, Nov. 9, 2007; confidential source, Mar. 22, 2007; correspondence with Paul Burrell, Aug. 24, 2007; Howard Lyman, Mar. 24, 2008; Elliott Zinger and Patrick Walsh, Oct. 9, 2007, and correspondence with Elliott Zinger, June 22, 2009; confidential source, Oct. 1, 2008; Bill Zwecker, Oct. 11, 2007; confidential source, Nov. 26, 2007; Tim Jones, Apr. 5, 2007.
S
EVENTEEN
RECORDS:
Transcript, interview of Oprah Winfrey by Diane Sawyer,
20/20,
ABC, Oct. 25, 1998; King World Productions, Inc., General Statement of Beneficial Ownership (SEC Schedule SC 13D), filed Oct. 27, 1997; King World Productions, Inc., General Statement of Beneficial Ownership (SEC Schedule SC 13G), filed Oct. 13, 1998;
transcript, Oprah Winfrey with Phil McGraw,
Dr. Phil,
aired Feb. 11, 2008; documents in the case of
Dr. Mehmet Oz
et al.,
v. FWM Labratories, Inc.,
et al., case no. 1:09-CV-07297-DAB, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.
BOOKS:
Oprah Winfrey,
Journey to Beloved
(Hyperion, 1998); Natalie Zemon Davis,
Slaves on Screen
(Harvard University Press, 2000); Rhonda Byrne,
The Secret
(Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006);
Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews and Inspiration from
O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2005);
O’s Guide to Life: The Best of
O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2007);
O’s Big Book of Happiness: The Best of
O, The Oprah Magazine (Oxmoor House, 2008).
ARTICLES:
“Winfrey’s Company Buys Rights to ‘Beloved,’ ‘Boy,’ ”
Variety,
Jan. 12, 1988; Jonathan Van Meter, “Oprah’s Moment,”
Vogue,
Oct. 1998; Gretchen Reynolds, “A Year to Remember: Oprah Grows Up,”
TV Guide,
Jan. 7, 1995; “Dumbing Up,”
Economist,
Oct. 17, 1998; Tom Shales, “ ‘David and Lisa’ and a Little Too Much Oprah,”
Washington Post,
Oct. 31, 1989; Roger Ebert, “Oprah Meets Her Match,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 11, 1998; Ron Stodghill, “Daring to Go There,”
Time,
Oct. 5, 1998; Laura B. Randolph, “Oprah and Danny Sizzle in Their First Love Scene in the Powerful Film ‘Beloved,’ ”
Ebony,
Nov. 1998; Honie Stevens, “From Rags to Riches,”
Saga,
May 2002; Clarence Page, “Taking Off Blinders About Slavery,”
Chicago Tribune,
Oct. 21, 1998; Lorrie Lynch, “Oprah’s New Mission,”
USA Weekend,
Oct. 9–11, 1998; John Millar, “Oprah Winfrey and Thandie Newton,”
OK!,
Mar. 12, 1999; Janet Maslin, “No Peace from a Brutal Legacy,”
New York Times,
Oct. 16, 1998; Stanley Kauffmann, “Of Human Bondages,”
New Republic,
Nov. 16, 1998; Richard Alleva, “Beloved,”
Commonweal,
Nov. 20, 1998; Roger Ebert, “Grand Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 16, 1998; Richard Corliss, “Bewitching Beloved,”
Time,
Oct. 5, 1998; Mary A. Mitchell, “Nothing Entertaining About Films on Slavery,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 18, 1998; Anita Creamer, “Beautiful Pictures Reveal Ugly Truth,”
Sacramento Bee,
Oct. 12, 1998; Marisa Meltzer, “The Fat Wars,”
www.thedailybeast.com
, May 19, 2009; Marilyn Gardner, “
Vogue
’s Oprah Sends Mixed Message,”
Christian Science Monitor,
Oct. 18, 1998; Lloyd Grove, “
Vogue
Editor Rouses the Fat and the Furious,” New York
Daily News,
Sept. 19, 2005; Cynthia Grenier, “
Vogue
Scores in Big Fashion Getting First Lady for Cover,”
Washington Times,
Dec. 12, 1998; “Oscar Fashions/More Maria Shriver,”
www.oprah.com
, Mar. 5, 1999; “Oprah Winfrey and
Beloved,
”
www.news.bbc.co.uk
, Mar. 5, 1999; Jeannie Williams, “Cover Girl Oprah a Model of Makeover,”
USA Today,
Sept. 18, 1998; Veronica Chambers and Allison Samuels, “The Women of ‘Beloved,’ ”
Newsweek,
Oct. 19, 1998; Jill Vejnuska, “It’s Oprah’s World,”
Palm Beach Post,
Oct. 16, 1998; Steve Holsey, “Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Queen, Has Complex Movie She Believes In,”
Michigan Chronicle,
Oct. 14, 1998; Mary McNamara, “O to a Higher Power,”
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 11, 2005; Sharon Waxman, “Beloved Gets the Cold Shoulder,” Montreal
Gazette,
Nov. 12, 1998; “Autumn Flops,”
Economist,
Nov. 21, 1998; Martyn Palmer, “Unloved but Unbowed,” London
Times,
Feb. 25, 1999; John Millar, “Grand Oprah,”
Sunday Express,
Feb. 21, 1999; Liz Smith, “Jackie Mason on Mel,”
New York Post,
Aug. 3, 2006; “Oprah Winfrey: For a Beloved TV Icon, a Year of Grit, Glamour—and Jeers,”
People Weekly,
Dec. 28, 1998; Cindy Pearlman, “Poet Angelou Has Few Kind Words for
Clinton,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 3, 1998; Liz Smith, “Still an Open Fan of Andre’s,”
New York Post,
June 10, 1999; Scott A. Resnick, “Whoopi Goldberg Fields Questions, Holds Back Little,”
Harvard Crimson,
Nov. 10, 1998; “It’s War,”
National Enquirer,
Dec. 31, 1998; Maya Jaggi, “The Power of One,”
Guardian Weekend,
Feb. 11, 1999; Lynette Clemetson, “It’s Constant Work,”
Newsweek,
Oct. 8, 2001; Phil Rosenthal, “Soul Second,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 28, 2000; Jill Smolowe and Sonja Steptoe, “O on the Go,”
People Weekly,
July 16, 2001; Richard Huff, “Happy Days Here Again for Top-Rated ‘Oprah,’ ” New York
Daily News,
Oct. 1, 1998; Robert Feder, “Why Oprah Keeps Faith with Her Faithful Followers,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 16, 1997; Robert Feder, “Springer Isn’t Stung by Winfrey’s Remarks,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 10, 1999; “Rachael Ray?”
www.tmz.com
, Jan. 24, 2007; “Business and Finance,”
Wall Street Journal,
Sept. 16, 1998; Lisa de Moraes, “In CBS Deal, Oprah Gets a Wheel Fortune: $100 Million,”
Washington Post,
Apr. 2, 1999; Tim Jones, “In a Blink, CBS Changes Its Make-Up,”
Chicago Tribune,
Apr. 2, 1999; Forbes 400 list 1999,
www.Forbes.com
; Amy Wellborn, “The Feel-Good Spirituality of Oprah,”
Our Sunday Visitor,
Jan. 13, 2002; Lyn Garrett, “Oprah Gets Spiritual,”
Publishers Weekly,
Sept. 14, 1998; Bob Longino, “Oprah Exhorting Fans to ‘Change Your Life,’ ”
Atlanta Constitution,
Sept. 10, 1998; Christopher John Farley, “Queen of All Media,”
Time,
Oct. 5, 1998; Richard Roeper, “ ‘Deepak Oprah’s’ Inner Journey Is an Ego Trip,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 12, 1998; Libby Copeland, “Our Lady of Perpetual Help,”
Washington Post,
June 26, 2000; Skip Hollandsworth, “Phillip McGraw,”
Texas Monthly,
Sept. 1999; Cheryl Lavine, “Dr. Tell It Like It Is,”
Chicago Tribune,
June 12, 2001; “Oprah Winfrey Reinvents Her Show,”
Atlanta Daily World,
Sept. 13, 1998; Ann Oldenburg, “Oprah: ‘These Are the Glory Days for Me,’ ”
USA Today,
Oct. 8, 1998; Shu Shin Lu, “Oprah Fan’s Tragedy,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Dec. 24, 1999; Steve Johnson, “Oh, No, Oprah! Enough!”
Chicago Tribune,
Nov. 23, 1998; Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert, “Live Your Best Life Ever,”
Newsweek,
June 8, 2009; Lucy Howard et al., “The Buzz,”
Newsweek,
Feb. 22, 1999; Hal Boedeker, “Too Much Oprah, Too Much Vanity,”
Orlando Sentinel,
Sept. 18, 1998; Wiley A. Hall III, “Urban Rhythms: The Marches,”
Afro-American Red Star,
Oct. 27, 2000; Jeff MacGregor, “Inner Peace, Empowerment, and Host Worship,”
New York Times,
Oct. 25, 1998; “The Gospel According to Oprah,”
Vantage Point,
July 1998; Phil Rosenthal, “What a ‘Man,’ ”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 16, 1999; Jerry Adler, “ ‘The Secret’: Does Self-Help Book Really Help?”
Newsweek,
Mar. 5, 2007; transcript,
Larry King Live,
May 1, 2007,
www.transcripts.cnn.com
; Steve Rabey, “Oprah’s ‘Gospel,’ ”
Christian Examiner,
May 2008; Marco R. della Cava, “Secret History of ‘The Secret,’ ”
USA Today,
Mar. 28, 2007; Peter Birkenhead, “Oprah’s Ugly Secret,”
www.Salon.com
, Mar. 5, 2007; transcript,
Real Time with Bill Maher,
Mar. 9, 2007,
www.safesearching.com
; Tim Watkin, “Self-Help’s Slimy ‘Secret,’ ”
Washington Post,
Apr. 8, 2007; “Letters to Oprah,”
www.oprah.com
, Mar. 26, 2007; Lynn Clemetson, “Oprah on Oprah,”
Newsweek,
Jan. 8, 2008; Robert Feder, “Oprah Set to Launch Magazine Next Year,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
July 9, 1999; Robert Feder, “Give Her an O—Oprah Names New Magazine,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 13, 2000; Keith Kelly, “Oprah Magazine Goes with O,”
New York Post,
Jan. 13, 2000; Lillian Ross, “Oprah’s Understudy,”
New Yorker,
Apr. 24 and May 1, 2000; April Peterson, “Combining Mass and Class: The Story of
O, The Oprah Magazine,
”
Journal of Magazine and New Media Research,
Fall 2003; Marina Benjamin, “O is for Oprah and Over-the-Top,”
Evening Standard,
Apr. 26, 2000; “Oprah Talks to Nelson Mandela,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Apr. 2001; Carina Chocano, “Look Out O: Twins Go Glossy,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 11, 2001; “Top Ten Articles in Oprah’s New Magazine,”
Late Show with David Letterman,
Apr. 10, 2000,
www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow
.
TV/DVDS:
Beloved,
1998 (DVD); “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E
Biography
special, aired Jan. 16, 2000;
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set); “What Happened to the Mom Who Shopped Her Family Broke?”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
aired Jan. 18, 2008.
INTERVIEWS:
Confidential source, Nov. 26, 2007; Susan Karns, July 29, 2009; Peter Colasante, Dec. 17, 2007; Maureen Taylor, Dec. 17, 2007; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 24, 2008; Nan Talese, Mar. 23, 2007; Tim Jones, Apr. 5, 2007; correspondence with Alex Kuczynski, Apr. 13, 2008.
E
IGHTEEN
RECORDS:
“Oprah’s Angel Network Fact Sheet,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show
press release, Sept. 1999; IRS forms 990 for Oprah’s Angel Network, 2002–2007, EIN 36-4231488; IRS forms 990 for Angel Network Support Foundation, 2002–2004, EIN 74-2962189; transcript, “Oprah” segment,
60 Minutes,
CBS, Dec. 14, 1986; transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech at Miss Porter’s School, June 12, 1994; Illinois Secretary of State Corporation File Detail Report for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, File no. 57496614; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, 2001–2007, and For A Better Life Foundation, 1998–2000, EIN 36-3976230; “Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls—South Africa Celebrates Its Official Opening,” TOWLAG press release, Jan. 2, 2007; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation, 2002–2005, and The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation, 2006, 2007, EIN 74-3048315; documents in the case of
Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane v. Oprah Winfrey
et al., case no. 2:08-CV-4884 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
BOOKS:
Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987); George Mair,
Oprah Winfrey: The Real Story
(Birch Lane Press, 1994); Peter Frumkin,
Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy
(University of Chicago Press, 2006); Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Finding Oprah’s Roots
(Crown Publishers, 2007).
ARTICLES:
Andrew Gumbel, “Oprah Becomes First Black Woman to Join Billionaire’s Club,”
Los Angeles Times,
Mar. 1, 2003; “Oprah Comes Home,” Kosciusko
Star-Herald,
Nov. 15, 1998; “Oprah Winfrey Reveals the Real Reason Why She Stayed on TV,”
Jet,
Nov. 24, 1997; “FAMU Habitat for Humanity Chapter Selected to Build Oprah House,”
Tennessee Tribune,
Apr. 16, 1998; Shawn Reeves, “The House That Oprah Built,”
Habitat World,
Oct./Nov. 1999; “Habitat Plans Six Houses in ’98,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Jan. 22, 1998; Jennifer Wulff and Mike Lipton, “These Are My Dream Girls,”
People Weekly,
Jan. 15, 2007; “Building Oprah Katrina Homes,”
www.oprah.com
; Mary Perez, “With Little Fanfare, Oprah’s Angel Network Is Quietly Helping Coast People and Communities Recover,” Biloxi-Gulfport
Sun-Herald
; Steve Johnson, “Oh, No, Oprah!
Enough,”
Chicago Tribune,
Nov. 23, 1998; Alex Ben Block, “Oprah on the Record,”
TelevisionWeek
,
Apr. 19, 2004; “How Big Sister Oprah Opened Her Arms and Her Heart to Save 24 Ghetto Kids,”
Star,
Sept. 5, 1989; Bill Brashler, “Next on Oprah…,”
Ladies’ Home Journal
,
Aug. 1991; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,”
Ms.,
Aug. 1986; “Bill Cosby Leads the Millionaire Entertainers,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
Sept. 7, 1987; Marilynn Marchione, “Coast-to-Coast: U.S. Reaches Out,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
May 25, 1986; Charles Krauthammer, “Celebrities in Politics,”
Time,
Apr. 21, 1986; Timothy McDarragh, “Talk’s Not Cheap,”
New York Post,
Jan. 1, 1987; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup on Sunday,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 8, 1987; “$25,000 Kiss,”
Nashville Banner,
Aug. 4, 1987; Robert Feder, “Oprah Buys Studio on West Side,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 17, 1988; “Oprah, Revlon Give School $100,000,”
New York Amsterdam News,
Feb. 4, 1989; “Generous Oprah,” New York
Daily News,
Dec. 27, 1988; “Lunch on Oprah in South African Town,”
Boston Herald,
July 23, 1988; Brian Williams and David Barritt, “Oprah’s Mission of Mercy,”
National Enquirer,
Apr. 3, 1990; Brian Lowry, “NCCJ Humanitarian Award Presented to Oprah Winfrey,”
Variety,
Oct. 24, 1988; “Oprah Gives Donation,” Fort Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel,
Apr. 30, 1988; “Rich Get Richer,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 17, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey Establishes Morehouse College Fund,”
Atlanta Daily World,
May 25, 1989; “Oprah Makes Her Second $5 Mil Donation to Morehouse College,”
Chicago Defender,
Feb. 26, 2004; Lisbeth Levine, “Show Supports Shelter,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Aug. 23, 1989; “Check Oprah—She Saves the Day,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Mar. 28, 1989; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
June 22, 1989; “Star Watch,”
USA Today,
Sept. 26, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey Helps,”
Atlanta Daily World,
Mar. 12, 1989; “Cosby Tops List of Money-Makers,”
Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 17, 1990; “Oprah, Church Make Way for Dakota Shelter,” Minneapolis
StarTribune,
Aug. 16, 1990; Mary Cameron Frey, “Chicago Opens Its Heart for Art Against AIDS,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Apr. 22, 1990; “…And Winfrey Deserves Salute,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 2, 1990; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 25, 1990; Susan Heller Anderson, “Chronicle,”
New York Times,
Jan. 26, 1990; “Standing Room Only,”
Atlanta Daily World,
May 11, 1990; “Oprah Flying Mandela Kin to South Africa,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 2, 1990; Robert Feder, “Bob Hope Leads Stars in Salute to Winfrey,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 12, 1990; “The Dish!”
Globe,
Jan. 21, 2003; Edward R. Silverman, “Big Bucks on the Block,”
Newsday,
Sept. 16, 1991; Eric Siegel, “Talk Show Host Winfrey Gives Money for Books,”
Baltimore Sun,
Sept. 18, 1991; Edward R. Silverman, “Big Bucks,”
Newsday,
Sept. 14, 1992; “Oprah Gives $50,000 to Fight Abuse,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 15, 1992; “People,”
Orange County Sentinel,
Aug. 1, 1992; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 16, 1992; David E. Kalish, “Oprah Tops Forbes’ List of Entertainers,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
Sept. 13, 1993; Ginny Holbert, “Winfrey Thinks Show Can Help,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Nov. 23, 1993; M. W. Newman, “Restoration Brings Out Best in Holy Family,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
July 12, 1993; Mary Cameron Frey, “Oprah Looks Like a Million to West Side School,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct. 27, 1993; Bill Zwecker, “The Top Earners,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 12, 1994; “Oprah Winfrey Donates Prize Money to School,”
New York Amsterdam News,
Feb. 12, 1994; “Rack Race,”
People Weekly,
July 4, 1994; Luchina Fisher et al., “In Full Stride,”
People Weekly,
Sept. 12, 1994; “ ‘Taking on Welfare’—Next on Oprah,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 16, 1994; Gary Wisby, “Oprah Picks Up the Tab,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 14, 1994; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 11, 1989; Pat Gowens, “A Woman’s Response to the ‘Oprah Effect,’ ”
www.blackagendareport.com
, Nov. 1, 2006; Dana Kennedy, “Oprah Act Two,”
Entertainment Weekly,
Sept. 9, 1994; Maudlyne Ihejirika, “7 Star in Oprah’s Pilot,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 15, 1995; Allyson C. Ward, “Oprah, Hull House Help 100 Needy Families with Housing,”
Chicago Defender,
Sept. 14, 1994; Christopher John Farley, “Oprah Springs Eternal,”
Time,
Aug. 30, 1993; Melissa Key, “Secret Heartache Behind Oprah’s $6M Giveaway,”
Star,
Sept. 17, 1994; Jamie Foster Brown, “Everything Negroes Ever Wanted to Ask Oprah,”
Sister 2 Sister,
Nov. 1997; Louise Kiernan, “Oprah’s Poverty Program Stalls,”
Chicago Tribune,
Aug. 27, 1996; Clarence Page, “Oprah Asking the Right Questions,”
Chicago Tribune,
Sept. 4, 1996; Richard Thomas, “Queen of the Dream,”
Guardian,
May 10, 1997; “Oprah Winfrey and Beau Stedman Graham to Teach Class at Northwestern University,”
Jet,
June 7, 1999; Cliff Edwards, “Professor Oprah to Teach Leadership at N’western,”
Commercial Appeal,
May 20, 1999; “Oprah on Oprah,”
Newsweek,
Jan. 8, 1999; Bill Hoffman, “On Guard! Here Comes Oprah,”
New York Post,
Nov. 15, 2000; Mike Thomas, “Class Dismissed,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Jan. 3, 2001; Michael Sneed, “Sneed,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Nov. 12, 1999; Forbes 400 list 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002,
www.Forbes.com
; “O, No! Oprah Talks of Retiring,”
New York Post,
Mar. 12, 2002; “World’s Richest People” list 2003 and 2004,
www.Forbes.com
; “Billionaires” list, 2006 and 2007,
www.Forbes.com
; “Oprah, Master P and Puff Daddy Among Forbes’ List of 40 Highest Paid Entertainers,”
Jet,
Sept. 28, 1998; “Oprah and Michael Jordan Among Forbes’ List of Top 50 Highest Paid Performers,”
Jet,
Mar. 22, 1999; “Who Are the Highest-Paid Black Celebrities,”
Jet,
Mar. 27, 2000; “100 Top Celebrities” list, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007,
www.Forbes.com
; “Mandela’s Passion for Education,”
Mercury,
July 15, 2008; “Newsmakers,”
Houston Chronicle,
Nov. 5, 2000; Belinda Robinson, “Oprah’s African Dream Realized,” London
Voice,
Dec. 7, 2006; Oprah Winfrey, “O Happy,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Apr. 2003; Darren Scheuttler, “Crowding Mars Mandela Holiday Party,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 23, 2002; P. J. Bednarski, “All About Oprah Inc.,”
Broadcasting and Cable,
June 24, 2005; Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know for Sure,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Dec. 2006; Patricia Edmonds, “This Time I Won’t Fail,”
USA Weekend,
Dec. 17, 2006; Pamela Gien, “Building the Dream,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Jan. 2007; Rosalind Rossi, “Oprah Visits Local Charter School to Get Tips for Her South African,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Nov. 15, 2003; transcript,
Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees,
www.cnn.transcripts.com
, Jan. 8, 2007; Debby Knox, “The Christel Touch,”
www.wishtv.com
, Feb. 12, 2007; “Talk Show Host Reinvigorates Attention on City’s Failing Schools,”
www.thewbalchannel.com
, Apr. 12, 2006; Dan Rodricks, “Listen Up, Oprah: There Are Other Ways to Help City Kids,”
Baltimore Sun,
Apr. 13, 2006; Lynn Anderson, “Baltimore Turns the Other Cheek for Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Apr. 12, 2006; Daphne Merkin, “Soap Oprah,”
Radar,
Feb. 2008; Allison Samuels, “Oprah Winfrey’s Lavish South African School,”
Newsweek,
Jan. 8, 2007; “Oprah Reveals She Is a Descendant of Zulus,”
Jet,
July 4, 2005; “One on One with Oprah,”
www.etonline.com
, Jan. 3, 2007; “Oprah Opens Her Dream School for Poor South African Students,” Yahoo News (AFP), Jan. 2, 2007; Rebecca Traister,
“What Oprah Can’t Forget,”
www.Salon.com
, Jan. 13, 2007; Janet Silvera, “Mixed Feelings for New ‘Oprah’ School,”
Jamaica Gleaner,
May 29, 2007; “Oprah Admits Having Nearly Given Up South African School Project,” Yahoo News (AFP), Jan. 3, 2007; Suzanne Slesin, “Live and Learn,”
O at Home,
Summer 2007; “KZN Girls Head for Oprah’s School,” Durban
Daily News,
Nov. 20, 2006; Chrisena Coleman, “Oprah’s Schooled,” New York
Daily News,
Jan. 2, 2007; “Statement from Oprah Winfrey,”
Boston Globe,
Jan. 20, 2007; “Oprah: Their Story Is My Story,”
www.ABCNews.go.com
, Jan. 2, 2007; “Oprah Winfrey Press Conference,”
www.oprah.com
, Nov. 5, 2007; “Transcript of Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address,”
Stanford Report,
June 15, 2008; Lumka Oliphant, “Stars at Oprah’s S. A. Bash,”
Pretoria News,
Dec. 23, 2006; Ray Richmond, “Gift List for Challenged Media Figures,”
www.hollywoodreporter.com
, Dec. 19, 2006; Beverly Keel, “Oprah’s School for Girls in Africa Impresses Dad,”
Tennessean,
Jan. 12, 2007; “Oprah Winfrey Talks About ‘Her Girls,’ ”
www.ABC7Chicago.com
, Feb. 26, 2007; Jodi Poirier, “Building a Dream,”
New York Amsterdam News,
Mar. 1–7, 2007; Ruben Navarette, “The Truth According to Oprah,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
Jan. 14, 2007; Maulina Karenga, “Oprah in Africa,”
Los Angeles Sentinel,
Jan. 17, 2007; Gill Guilford and Bothos Molosanka, “Accused Pleads Not Guilty in Oprah Case,” Johannesburg
Star,
July 29, 2008; Solly Maphumulo, “Oprah Sex Scandal,” Johannesburg
Star,
Mar. 31, 2009; Caille Millner, “Oprah’s Opportunity,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
Nov. 12, 2007; transcript,
Countdown with Keith Olbermann,
www.msnbc.msn.com
, Nov. 5, 2007; Eugene Robinson, “Oprah the Avenger,”
Washington Post,
Nov. 6, 2007; Canaan Mdletshe, “Girl Quits Winfrey Academy,”
Sowetan,
Sept. 27, 2007; Andrew Leonard, “Live on Oprah: Microfinance!”
www.Salon.com
, Dec. 5, 2006.