AND THESE ARE THE BEST MACAROONS SALMA HAYEK AND I HAD PUT IN OUR MOUTHS, EVER: Three Oprah episodes to go, and the NYT's Brian Stelter argues Wednesday "is the biggest such moment in television since Johnny Carson quit 'The Tonight Show' two decades ago."
As I said when she announced the impending end of her show, others can speak more competently about the impact of her show "in commerce, in literature, in spirituality and self-assessment, in reviving the talk show format in the post-Donahue era, in philanthropy, and so on," and all I can reiterate is this: most people who start in life where she was, and who are where she was at age 14, don't end up anywhere close to where Oprah Winfrey ended up. It is a remarkable, and fundamentally American story.
Okay, let's hear her scream some celebrity names.
