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Prince Charles gets cold reception from Blacks Prince Charles today became the first royal to attend an official engagement following Harry and Meghan’s bombshell interview as he refused to comment on the scandal and told a nurse ‘I can imagine how exhausting it is’ as she described her work handing out vaccines. (The Daily Mail,… Read more.
Everyone is eulogizing Maya Angelou. And they’re doing so as if she were more a living saint than a poet laureate. Michelle and I join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time — a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman. (President Obama, whitehouse.gov, May 28, 2014)… Read more.
There has been a great deal of speculation in the media lately about the relationship between Oprah and President Obama. In fact, to listen to some political commentators you’d think Oprah has become a woman scorned because Obama refused to give her the White House access she coveted (to exploit for commercial purposes) “after helping… Read more.
After the public humiliation she suffered for buying into James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces (of lies) hook, line and sinker, Oprah Winfrey must be wondering about her literary Midas touch now that she’s been ensnared in yet another sensational literary hoax. This time, the writer who duped her with a daring love story masquerading… Read more.
“No good deed goes unpunished” and “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” are two aphorisms that sum up the scandal now tarnishing the reputation of the most powerful woman on television, Oprah Winfrey. Because, less than a year after the January grand opening of her $40-million “leadership academy for girls” in Johannesburg,… Read more.
On Monday, Oprah released excerpts from an interview she and her “best friend” Gayle King did for the August issue of her own O, The Oprah Magazine, for which Gayle is editor-at-large. In it they deny they’re gay – though insist, of course, that “there’s nothing wrong with being gay.” Oprah begins: I understand why… Read more.
Celebrated author Terry McMillan (53) is making a public spectacle of the breakdown of her marriage. It began when she filed divorce papers that read like a script for the follow-up to her bestselling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back. It turns out Jonathan Plummer (30), the Jamaican boy toy who helped her “get her groove back,” is gay. He… Read more.
