Oprah began her live presidential party on Wednesday with a copy of the Sun-Times in hand, with its stoic image of Barack Obama and simple headline, "Mr. President," declaring it her favorite from that day. As she later told her guest Will Smith, "It was the best paper of all the papers in the world." And she had a lot to choose from. more ›

Oprah talks, we listen, and a lot of the time we do what she tells us to do. But hometowner Robyn Okrant has been taking it to the extreme over the last year: buying, reading, consuming and believing just about everything Oprah tells her to. Per Oprah's decree, she has adopted a cat, purchased garden tools for a yard she doesn't have, and even voted for Obama despite previously having leaned Hillary, and she's blogged the entire experience. Matt Lauer caught up Okrant last week to see how things have been "livin' la vida Oprah," as Today appropriately quips. more ›