Oprah Watch
By Margaret Hicks in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 9, 2007 10:45PM
Oprah is everywhere this week. She took her first campaign trip with Obama to Iowa where over 18,000 people came to hear Oprama speak. Oprah said, “Despite all the talk and speculation and the hype. I understand the difference between a book club and a free refrigerator -- that was a nice refrigerator."
Okay good, we’re really happy Oprah explained herself because we weren’t sure if that was a nice refrigerator or not. Now we know.
You know how to find the whole week's blow-by-blow....
Tonight Harpo Films will be showing an adaptation of Mitch Albom’s “One More Day,” the story of a down-and-out man who gets one more day with his deceased mother. Albom was on the show Tuesday and he is a mighty small fellow. We’ve seen Oprah and she is tiny. Albom looked like a kid with a really big head sitting next to her on the chair.
Oprah interviewed Richard Carlson's wife on the same show. Carlson, the author of the bestseller Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, died at 46 but seemed to live a life of appreciation and love. His wife and daughters were so touching and so sad, our own tears started to flow. Yet our tears of sadness abruptly turned to tears of annoyance when Oprah brought out Nick Lachey and immediately asked him about his divorce. Boo.
Wednesday’s show was interrupted by some guy calling himself President Bush. We all know you can’t call yourself a President until Oprah tells you you can, so sit down silly man, and take us back to Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote “Eat, Pray, Love.” We just caught the end and have never read the book, but Gilbert seemed quite normal and humble -- we’re going to have to pick it up.
Thursday was a rerun because Oprah was in Iowa getting ready to stump it, but we were stoked to see the Oprah and Gail look-alikes again. The Oprah one really does look like her and we got the sense that Oprah was annoyed by that. Oprah could barely look at the poor woman.
Friday was another rerun about women who lost weight with gastric bypass and then started drinking. Oprah had Dr. Robin there to help out but we can’t get into Dr. Robin, she looks way too much like a gelfling from the The Dark Crystal. It gives us the willies.
Monday we can all look forward Criss Angel, or we could hold out hope that President Bush comes back on.
This email blast of the week made a lot of sense to us: “Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday." Great, we’re all about more happy hours for tomorrow--it’s the ones of yesterday we have a hard time remembering.