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Oprah's Favorite Things Show: CANCELED?
Oprah's Favorite Things Show: CANCELED?
After seven years, Oprah has zero plans to do a Favorite Things episode in 2009, a Harpo employee told Huffington Post. Coupled with her announcement that 2010's holiday season will be her last on the air, the era of crying, screaming and hyperventilating audience members may have come to an ...
Watch: 25 Years of Oprah's Enthusiastic Screams
Watch: 25 Years of Oprah's Enthusiastic Screams
popeater.com — Oprah Winfrey is known for her enthusiasm when it comes to her celebrity friends and FunnyorDie.com compiled... the best moments of the talk show queen screaming out the names of her famous guests. Even as 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' comes to an end, ... Watch: 25 Years of Oprah's Enthusiastic Screams
ABC announces Oprah-Obama Christmas special
ABC announces Oprah-Obama Christmas special
thrfeed.com — The queen of daytime will interview the president of the country during an ABC holiday special that... brings together Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. ABC announces Oprah-Obama Christmas special
Oprah Bails Mom Out
tmz.com — Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Oprah Oprah's mom is officially off the hook for a $155,547 bill... she owed to a Milwaukee clothing boutique -- and TMZ has learned she has her famous daughter to thank. Our spies at the Valentina Inc. boutique tell us Oprah personally covered the balance ...  ... Oprah Bails Mom Out
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Oprah's 'Favorite Things' episode axed?
From Inside the Box — oprahsfavoritethings.jpg Say it ain't so, Oprah! Oprah Winfrey's popular "Favorite Things" annual episode may not be happening after all, reports The Huffington Post . What?!? Look, we know there's no Santa Claus (sorry kiddie Zap2it readers), but wasn't Oprah the Santa Claus for adults with big dreams of kicking the dust off their small town shoes and making it to Chicago for a taping of the "Oprah" show? "We have no plans this season for a 'Favorite Things.'" a Harpo employee reportedly told HuffPo. That's all. No explanation. We're still in disbelief and have reached out to ...

Oprah Cancels 'Favorite Things' Show
Extra — ... First Oprah Winfrey announced she's stepping down from her talk show, now comes news she's canceling her famous "Favorite Things" episode. An employee at her production company, Harpo, tells HuffingtonPost.com, "We have no plans this season for a 'Favorite Things.'" The show has become a holiday tradition in which the talk show host gives her "favorite things" away to enthusiastic audience members. In 2004, she gifted all teachers, Hurricane Katrina volunteers in 2005 and in 2007, taped the show from her most-watched location, Macon, Ga. In 2008, Winfrey ...

Oprah’s Favorite Things 2009 Cancelled?
Pop Crunch — ... Have we seen our final crying Oprah audience? Oprah may be skipping her annual “Favorite Things” show this year…. ...

No Oprah's Favorite Things in 2009
TV Squad — ... Huffington Post has learned exclusively that Favorite Things was scrapped. It used to be a Thanksgiving week staple. The reasons are unclear, but it would seem incongruous to celebrate expensive robes, top of the line chocolates, camcorders and the like when so many people are out of work and in financial straits. ...

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Remembrance of Oprah's Favorite Things Past [Material World]
Gawker — Remembrance of Oprah's Favorite Things Past This year, Oprah's canceling her 'Favorite Things' episode and will give us the gift of Barack Obama instead. As if he's going to make 200 women fly into simultaneous orgasms . We demand to be lavished with exuberant materialism! This isn't the first time Winfrey's shanked her holiday audiences. (Scoring seats at a Thanksgiving-week Oprah episode is like playing scratch-offs: you have a 1-in-5 chance of winning, since she always does it during Thanksgiving week, but never says exactly which day she'll do.) ...

Remembrance of Oprah's Favorite Things Past [Material World]
Gawker — This year, Oprah's canceling her 'Favorite Things' episode and will give us the gift of Barack Obama instead. As if he's going to make 200 women fly into simultaneous orgasms. We demand to be lavished with exuberant materialism! This isn't the first time Winfrey's shanked her holiday audiences. (Scoring seats at a Thanksgiving-week Oprah episode is like playing scratch-offs: you have a 1-in-5 chance of winning, since she always does it during Thanksgiving week, but never says exactly which day she'll do.) Last year, the audience flew into the ...

Monitor Mix 2009 Gift Guide!
NPR Blogs: Monitor Mix — ... list during the holiday season. However, Oprah Winfrey, whose "favorites" show inspired my own list making, decided that she didn't have any favorite things this year. Not to be deterred by a lack enthusiasm on Oprah's part, I have decided to carry on with the tradition. ...

Tyra Banks, Ellen Degeneres and their valiant efforts to be Oprah
PopWatch — [image] I screamed aloud “Noooooo!” when I learned that, due to the grim economy, Oprah had  canceled her annual Favorite Things episode this year, which, as you may remember, was filled with amazing gifts and women shrieking at the top of their lungs. How would I know what to buy for the holidays? Where else could I see women going bonkers over crock pots? And what other talk show would lure me into signing up for an audience ticket? Well, where Oprah stands, ...

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