by Kitty Kelley
BOOKS: Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Michael Olesker, Tonight at Six (Apprentice House, 2008); Bill Adler, ed., The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Citadel Press, 1997).
ARTICLES: David Folkenflik, “WJZ’s Sher Marks 25 Storied Years in TV,” Baltimore Sun, Oct. 18, 2000; Bill Carter, “ ‘People Are Talking’: A Breath of Hot, Stale Air,” Baltimore Sun, Aug. 15, 1978; Michael Hill, “ ‘People Are Talking’ Off to a Rough Start,” Baltimore Evening Sun, Aug. 15, 1978; Gerri Kobren, “Co-Hosts Love Their Work,” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 17, 1978; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,” Time, Aug. 8, 1988; David Rensin, “The Prime Time of Ms. Oprah Winfrey,” TV Guide, May 16, 1992; Chris Anderson, “Meet Oprah Winfrey,” Good Housekeeping, Aug. 1986; Academy of Achievement, “Oprah Winfrey Interview,” Feb. 21, 1991, www.achievement.org; Bill Carter, “Channel 13 Getting Over Its Morning Jitters,” Baltimore Sun, Aug. 23, 1978; Michael Hill, “Richard Sher: Life After Oprah,” Baltimore Evening Sun, Mar. 20, 1987; Margaret D. Pagan, “Oprah,” Metropolitan, Oct. 1979; Dave Koppel, “Newscaster Took Her Cue from Romance,” Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Oct. 10, 1997; Gary Ballard, “Oprah Winfrey,” Drama-Logue, Mar. 20–26, 1986; Liz Smith, “Oprah Debunks ’Em,” Newsday, July 28, 1997; P. J. Bednarski, “Oprah Winfrey Rides the Whirlwind,” Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 17, 1985; Patricia King, “Move Over, Phil Donahue—Here Comes Oprah,” Family Circle, Oct. 21, 1986; Jim Nelson and Barbara Sternig, “Talk Show Star’s Wild and Wicked Childhood—Sister Reveals the Shocking Truth at Last,” National Enquirer, Mar. 20, 1990; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,” Ms., Aug. 1986; Lisa DePaulo, “Oprah’s Private Life,” TV Guide, June 3, 1989; Julia Lawlor, “The Other Oprah,” USA Weekend, June 2–4, 1989; Jan Herman, “Sly Stallone Will Match Rocky Against Russkies,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 17, 1984; Cheryl Lavin, “Vital Statistics: Oprah Winfrey,” Chicago Tribune Sept. 7, 1986; Laura B. Randolph, “Networks Help Celebrities Deal with Fame and Pain,” Ebony, July 1990; Stephanie Mansfield, “And Now, Heeeeeeere’s Oprah,” Washington Post, Oct. 21, 1986; Judy Markey, “Brassy, Sassy Oprah Winfrey,” Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1986; Dana Kennedy, “Oprah Act Two,” Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 9, 1994; Kwaku Alston and Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Tina Turner,” O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2005; Chrissy Iley, “The Power of Oprah,” Daily Mail, Oct. 14, 1989; “In Time of Trouble, Oprah Looks for Help from Above,” Newsday, July 14, 1987; Karen S. Peterson, “The Toast of Chicago TV Goes National,” USA Today, Sept. 18, 1986; “Off-Camera: The Living’s Convenient in Cross Keys,” Baltimore News-American, June 1, 1980; Bill Carter, “ ‘People Are Talking’ Flops as Syndicated Show,” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 7, 1981; P. J. Bednarski, “All About Oprah Inc.,” Broadcasting and Cable, June 24, 2005; Michael Hill, “ ‘People Are Talking’ Gains Some Limited Syndication,” Baltimore Evening Sun, Mar. 26, 1981; Bill Carter, “Can Oprah and Richard Hack It in Boise?” Baltimore Sun, Mar. 15, 1981; Chrissy Iley, “Grand Oprah,” Daily Mail, Feb. 18, 2006; Bob Burns, “Oprah’s Suicide Note Revealed,” Globe, Nov. 16, 1999; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; Transcript, Oprah Winfrey Commencement Speech at Goucher College, May 24, 1981, www.goucher.edu; Bill Carter, (title unknown), Baltimore Sun, Feb. 24, 1982; Jon Anderson, “No Dog Days of August for Ch. 7’s New Chief,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 16, 1983; Gretchen Reynolds, “Oprah Unbound,” Chicago, Nov. 1993; Peter Conrad, “The Divine Oprah,” London Observer, June 3, 1990; Kathleen Fury, “Oprah! Why She’s Got America Talking,” TV Guide, Mar. 5, 1988; Luther Young, “She’s Found Success by Just Being Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Jan. 27, 1985; Bill Carter, “Oprah Leaving Soon for Chicago,” Baltimore Sun, Oct. 19, 1983; Oprah Winfrey, “I Created This Happiness by Choice,” O, The Oprah Magazine, Mar. 2004; Oprah Winfrey, “Wind Beneath My Wings,” Essence, June 1989; “Tribute: A Salute to Dr. William F. Baker,” Broadcasting and Cable advertising supplement, May 28, 2007; Michael Olesker, “Today They Grieve for a Guy Who Made Folks Laugh,” Baltimore Sun, July 25, 1993; Sylvia Badger, “Local Stars Turn Out for Oprah’s Signing-Off Party,” Baltimore News-American, Dec. 14, 1983; Laura Charles, “ ‘Defector’ Oprah Gets Sweet Send-Off,” Baltimore Sun, Dec. 14, 1983.
DVD: The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD set).
INTERVIEWS: Barbara L. Hamm, July 23, 2007, and Aug. 2, 2007; Jane McClary, Nov. 6, 2009; Bob Leffler, Nov. 6, 2008; Dr. William F. Baker, Mar. 12, 2008, and Oct. 28, 2008; Dave Gosey, June 2007; Michael Fox, Jan. 17, 2007, and correspondence with Michael Fox, Dec. 10, 2007, Oct. 31, 2008, and Nov. 7, 2008; Judy Colteryahn, Mar. 16, 2008, and correspondence with Judy Colteryahn Mar. 17, 2008, Aug. 5, 2008, Aug. 6, 2008, Sept. 30, 2008; Eileen Solomon, Mar. 28, 2007; Susan Rome, Nov. 21, 2008; Ellen Lightman, Nov. 21, 2008; Paul Dickson, Jan. 17, 2007; Beverly Burke, July 25, 2007; correspondence with Wayne Kabak, Dec. 18, 2008; Ron Shapiro, Aug. 6, 2007.
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RECORDS: Documents in the case of Randolph L. Cook v. Oprah Winfrey, case no. 1:97-cv-00322, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; sample chapters from The Wizard of O, by Randolph Cook; transcript, testimony of Paul Natkin, on Aug. 15, 2000, in the case of Paul Natkin and Stephen Green v. Oprah Winfrey et al., case no. 1:99-cv-05367, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
BOOKS: James “Quick” Tillis, as told to J. Engleman Price, Thinking Big (The LPG Group, 2000); Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987).
ARTICLES: Michael Sneed et al., “The Parking Plot,” Chicago Tribune, Mar. 20, 1985; Luther Young, “She’s Found Success by Just Being Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Jan. 27, 1985; Richard Roeper, “New Age Oprah Forgets Those Tacky Old Shows,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 1, 1997; Mel Novit, “Oprah Winfrey,” Boston Herald, Sept. 4, 1986; Grant Pick, “Oprah!” Republic, Jan. 1986; Patricia Sellers, “The Business of Being Oprah,” Fortune, Apr. 1, 2002; Robert Feder, “A Slimmer Winfrey Feasts on the Glory of Her Rich TV Deal,” Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 22, 1988; Kathy O’Malley and Dorothy Collin, “INC.” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 4, 1990; Fred Goodman, “The Companies They Keep,” Working Woman, Dec. 1, 1991; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,” Woman’s Day, Oct. 1, 1986; Jan Herman, “Sly Stallone Will Match Rocky Against Russkies,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 17, 1984; Stephen Hunter, “Oprah!” Baltimore Sun, Dec. 17, 1985; Judy Markey, “Brassy, Sassy Oprah Winfrey,” Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1986; JoAnn Harris, “ ‘Della’ Premiers Monday,” Washington Post, June 8, 1967; Robert Kurson, “The Silent Treatment,” Chicago, July 2001; Clarence Peterson, “Very Illuminated People,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 26, 1985; Robert Feder, “An Eyewitness Guide to Sprucing Up Channel 7,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 26, 1985; Maralyn Lois Polak, “Oprah Winfrey: So Much to Reveal,” Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Oct. 12, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,” Spy, Dec. 1986; “Chicago’s Grand New Oprah,” Newsweek, Dec. 31, 1984; Michael Sneed and Cheryl Lavin, “A Superstadium?” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 27, 1985; Jon Anderson, “Oprah Winfrey Conquers Tonight Show Challenge,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 31, 1985; P. J. Bednarski, “The Talk Show Diva Named Oprah,” Channels of Communication, Jan./Feb. 1986; Luther Young, “Oprah and Joan Square Off,” Baltimore Sun, Jan. 31, 1985; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1985; book chapters and introduction, www.thewizardofo.com; Sarah Gallick, “Keep Quiet!” Star, Feb. 18, 1997; “Oprah and Coke,” Atlanta Daily World, Feb. 12, 1995; Ann Witheridge, “Oprah Drug Nightmare,” Star, Jan. 31, 1995; Laura B. Randolph “Networks Help Celebrities Deal with Fame and Pain,” Ebony, July 1990; “What She Did for Love,” People Weekly, Jan. 30, 1995; Patrice Gains, “How Oprah’s Confession Tumbled Out,” Washington Post, Jan. 13, 1995; Ellen Edwards, “Oprah Winfrey Admits Drug Use,” Washington Post, Jan. 13, 1995; Bill Zwecker, “Oprah Drug Revelation Could Backfire,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 15, 1995; Robert Feder, “Oprah Agonized Over Drug S
tory,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 19, 1995; Chris Kaltenbach, “As Fans Applaud Honesty, Others Wonder If Ratings Prompted Admission,” Baltimore Sun, Jan. 14, 1995; Jeffrey Rodack, “Oprah Erupts in Sex and Drug Shocker,” National Enquirer, Feb. 18, 1997; Cindy Adams, “He May Try to Bond with NYC,” New York Post, Oct. 1, 2007; Lucinda Hahn, “New Mom Samantha Harris; Expectant Mom Jennifer Lopez,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 17, 2007.
TV/DVD/PODCAST: Oprah Winfrey interviewed by Fred Griffith, The Morning Exchange, fifteenth anniversary, WEWS-TV, aired Jan. 1987; Oprah Winfrey speech at the Women’s Business Development Center luncheon, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 27, 2006 (mp3 downloaded from www.odeo.com/audio/2003955/play on Nov. 13, 2006); Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD set).
INTERVIEWS: Margo Howard, July 25, 2008, and correspondence with Margo Howard, Dec. 13, 2006; Dori Wilson, Sept. 8, 2008; Robert Waldron, Sept. 4, 2008; Robert Feder, Oct. 11, 2007; Randolph Cook, July 25, 2007, and Aug. 15, 2007; Diane Dimond, Apr. 29, 2007, and correspondence with Diane Dimond, Dec. 14, 2006; confidential source, Oct. 8, 2009; Jerry Oppenheimer, Nov. 2, 2007; Patty O’Toole, Nov. 20, 2008; confidential source, Jan. 2, 2008, Mar. 19, 2008, Mar. 21, 2008, and June 3, 2008.
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BOOKS: Alice Walker, The Same River Twice (Scribner, 1996); Quincy Jones, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones (Harlem Books, 2001); Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Evelyn C. White, Alice Walker (W.W. Norton and Co., 2004); Lawrence Leamer, Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger (St. Martin’s Press, 2005).
ARTICLES: Louis B. Parks, “ ‘Purple’ Actresses Make Most of Meaty Roles,” Houston Chronicle, Mar. 21, 1986; Susan Dworkin, “The Strange and Wonderful Story of the Making of The Color Purple,” Ms., Dec. 1985; Elena Featherstone, “The Making of The Color Purple,” San Francisco Focus, Dec. 1985; Jack Mathews, “3 ‘Color Purple’ Actresses Talk About Its Impact,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, 1986; Philip Wuntch, “Best Known as Comedian, Whoopi Goldberg Uneasy with Movie Stardom,” Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 23, 1985; Gene Siskel, “ ‘Color Purple’: Powerful, Daring, Sweetly Uplifting,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 20, 1985; Denise Abbott, “The Price of Fame,” Celebrity, Oct. 1987; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,” Time, Aug. 8, 1988; Alessandra Stanley, “Morning TV Veers from News to Frills,” New York Times, Dec. 4, 2007; Amy Wallace, “War of Words,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 95, 1998; Ann Kolson, “Oprah a Name to be Reckoned With,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 14, 1986; Delores Brooks, “The Phenomenal Oprah Winfrey,” Dollars and Sense (date unknown); Bruce Cook, “Oprah Enjoying Sweet Success,” L.A. Life/Daily News, Mar. 17, 1986; Jonathan Van Meter, “Oprah’s Moment,” Vogue, Oct. 1998; Gary Ballard, “Oprah Winfrey,” Drama-Logue, Mar. 20–26, 1986; Fred Goodman, “The Companies They Keep,” Working Women, Dec. 1, 1991; Grant Pick, “Oprah!” Republic, Jan. 1986; “Oprah: Tom Cruise’s Couch Jumping Was Wilder Than It Seemed,” www.ABCNews.go.com, Nov. 11, 2005; “Loving Life,” www.oprah.com, May 23, 2005; Janet Charlton, “In Happier Times,” www.janetcharltonshollywood.com, Aug. 20, 2006; Michael Sneed et al., “Oprah Goes Hollywood,” Chicago Tribune, June 4, 1985; “Names and Faces,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Sept. 19, 1998; Ann Marie Lipinski, “Oprah Winfrey Buying West Side Studios,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 18, 1988; Pat Colander, “Oprah Winfrey’s Odyssey: Talk Show Host to Mogul,” New York Times, Mar. 12, 1989; Veronica Chambers and Allison Samuels, “The Women of ‘Beloved,’ ” Newsweek, Oct. 19, 1998; Mary Gillespie, “The Women of ‘Brewster Place,’ ” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 12, 1989; Gene Wyatt, “Oprah Winfrey Learns How to Get Mad for ‘Color Purple,’ ” Tennessean, Dec. 15, 1985; Roger Ebert, “In Film Debut, Oprah Proves She’s Born to the ‘Purple,’ ” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 15, 1985; Gene Siskel, “With ‘Purple’ Spielberg Finally Grows Up and Gets Serious,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 15, 1985; Sheila Benson, “Two Women of Substance in Unlikely Settings: ‘The Color Purple,’ ” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 1985; David Ansen, “The Color Purple,” Newsweek, Dec. 30, 1985; Rita Kempley, “ ‘Purple’ Making Whoopi a Star,” Washington Post, Dec. 20, 1985; Stephen Hunter, “Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Dec. 17, 1985; Lou Cedrone, “The Color Purple,” Baltimore Evening Sun, Dec. 20, 1985; Diane Bartley, “An Oscar for Oprah,” Tennessean, Feb. 7, 1986; Robert Feder, “Nice Guy Newman Cancelled by Channel 5,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 25, 1985; Michael Sneed et al., “City Ditties,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1985; “Oprah Returns to Nashville as Millionaire,” Tennessean, Aug. 8, 1985; Lou Cedrone, “Winfrey Story Only Beginning,” Baltimore Evening Sun, Mar. 18, 1986; Luther Young, “Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Feb. 21, 1986; Jeffrey Strickler, “Winfrey, Having Achieved Quite a Bit, Expects ‘Great Things from Myself,’ ” Minneapolis StarTribune, Apr. 18, 1986; R. C. Smith, “She Once Trashed Her Apartment to Make a Point,” TV Guide, Aug. 30, 1986; E. R. Shipp, “Blacks in Heated Debate Over ‘The Color Purple,’ ” New York Times, Jan. 27, 1986; Josephine Trescott, “Passions Over ‘Purple,’ ” Washington Post, Feb. 5, 1986; Roger Ebert, “The Top Ten Films of 1985,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 29, 1985; Roger Ebert, “Hope Lives in a Character’s Truth,” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 28, 2004; Rose P. B. Venditti and Sylvia Badger, “Coming Home,” Baltimore News American, Feb. 21, 1986; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,” Woman’s Day, Oct. 1, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,” Spy, Dec. 1986; Stephanie Mansfield, “And Now, Heeeeeeere’s Oprah,” Washington Post, Oct. 21, 1986; Robert Kurson, “The Silent Treatment,” Chicago, July 2001; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; Tina Brown, “My New Mantra for 2009,” www.thedailybeast.com, Jan. 2, 2009; Tina Brown, “Is Michelle the New Oprah?” www.thedailybeast.com, Apr. 2, 2009; “Bad Press,” www.thedailybeast.com, Aug. 21, 2009; Lloyd Grove, “Oprah and the Sweat Lodge Guru,” www.thedailybeast.com, Oct. 23, 2009.
TV: Oprah Winfrey episode, E! The True Hollywood Story, aired Oct. 17, 2004.
INTERVIEWS: Alice Walker, Oct. 7, 2008; correspondence with confidential source, Dec. 5, 2007, and Dec. 12, 2007; Erica Jong, Dec. 17, 2006; confidential source, Nov. 9, 2007; Sandi Mendelson, Jan. 7, 2008; correspondence with Tina Brown’s assistant, Jan. 7, 2008.
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RECORDS: Transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech to American Women’s Economic Development Corporation conference, New York City, Feb. 25, 1989; Stedman Graham marriage records details, Tarrant County public access; verification of birth of Wendy Graham, Texas Department of State Health Services; documents in the case of Stedman Graham and Oprah Winfrey v. Extra Media, Inc., case no. 1:92-CV-02087, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; “Join the Team” form for Member Athletes, www.joinaad.com; IRS forms 990 for Athletes Against Drugs, 2002–2007, EIN 36-3463119.
BOOKS: Bill Adler, ed., The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Citadel Press, 1997); Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Stedman Graham, You Can Make It Happen (Fireside, 1998) and Build Your Own Life Brand (Free Press, 2001); Stedman Graham, “Whitesboro: A Hometown Remembered,” in Wendel A. White, Small Towns, Black Lives (The Noyes Museum of Art, 2003).
ARTICLES: Timothy McDarrah, “Talk’s Not Cheap,” New York Post, Jan. 1, 1987; Lloyd Shearer, “Oprah Winfrey—How Rich?” Parade, Feb. 15, 1987; Stephen Viens, “Secret Ways That Oprah Windfall Enjoys Her Millions,” Star, Aug. 23, 1988; Alan Richman, “Oprah,” People Weekly, Jan. 12, 1987; “And Another,” Boston Globe, Mar. 1, 1988; Charles Whitaker, “The Most Talked-About TV Show Host,” Ebony, Mar. 1987; Aljean Harmetz, “Learning to Live with Runaway Fame,” New York Times, May 18, 1986; Alan G. Artner, “Oprah Winfrey,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 10, 1988; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1985; Leslie Rubenstein, “Oprah! Thriving on Faith,” McCall’s, Aug. 1987; Elizabeth Sporkin et al., “Her Man Stedman,” People Weekly, Nov. 23, 1992; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 13, 1987; “Will Opulenc
e Spoil Oprah?” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 1, 1988; “Oprah’s Best Friend, Gayle King, Lists 10,433-Square-Foot House in Greenwich, CT for $7.45M,” www.bergproperties.com/blog, July 7, 2008; Robert Feder, “Five More Reasons You Gotta Love Outrageous Oprah,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 1, 1987; Nicole Sweeney, “When I Was 30: Vernita Lee,” www.mkeonline.com, May 19, 2005; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,” Ms., Aug. 1986; Steve Sonsky, “Oprah Winfrey!” Miami Herald, Sept. 7, 1986; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,” Woman’s Day, Oct. 1, 1986; Jill Brook Coiner, “Oprah Sets the Record Straight,” McCall’s, Nov. 1993; R. C. Smith, “She Once Trashed Her Apartment to Make a Point,” TV Guide, Aug. 30, 1986; Marilyn Johnson, “Oprah Between the Covers,” Life, Sept. 1997; Kwaku Alston and Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Tina Turner,” O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2005; Alan Bash, “Viewers Can Get a Dose of Reality in Syndication,” USA Today, May 30, 1995; Judy Markey, “Opinionated Oprah!” Woman’s Day, Oct. 4, 1988; Jim Nelson and Barbara Sternig, “Talk Show Star’s Wild and Wicked Childhood—Sister Reveals the Shocking Truth at Last,” National Enquirer, Mar. 20, 1990; Jamie Foster Brown, “Everything Negroes Ever Wanted to Ask Oprah, Part 2,” Sister 2 Sister, Dec. 1997; Lisa DePaulo, “Oprah’s Private Life,” TV Guide, June 3, 1989; Mary Gillespie, “Oprah’s Main Squeeze,” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 14, 1987; Eric Sherman, “Oprah Winfrey’s Success Story,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1987; Nancy Griffin, “Oprah (Lite),” Us, Mar. 20, 1989; David Rensin, “The Prime Time of Ms. Oprah Winfrey,” TV Guide, May 16, 1992; Mary Ann Bendel, “Oprah Winfrey,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Mar. 1988; “Stedman Stole Oprah from Rich Doc’s Arms,” Globe, Feb. 16, 1993; Debra Pickett, “Boring, Cool, Silly, Sublime,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 29, 2002; George Rush and Joanna Molloy, “When a Rumor Is Dead Wrong,” New York Daily News, Apr. 18, 2002; Mike Kiley, “His Own Man,” Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1995; Michel Marriott, “They Used to Call Me Oprah’s Boyfriend,” New York Times, Feb. 26, 1997; JaNae’ Bates, “Stedman Defines Himself and Tells Students to Do the Same,” Cleveland Call and Post, Aug. 3–9, 2006; Gretchen Reynolds, “The Man She’s Marrying,” Chicago, Dec. 1993; Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, “Winnie Mandela’s U.S. Promoter,” Washington Post, Mar. 8, 1989; “Lunch on Oprah in South African Town,” Boston Herald, July 23, 1988; Brian Williams and David Barritt, “Oprah’s Mission of Mercy,” National Enquirer, Apr. 3, 1990; Richard Schweid, “Oprah Takes a Risk with TV Special,” Tennessean, Nov. 20, 1988; Julia Lawlor, “The Other Oprah,” USA Weekend, June 2–4, 1989; LaTonya Taylor, “The Church of O,” Christianity Today, Apr. 1, 2002; Ken Harrell, “Shocking Secrets Stedman Hides from Oprah,” Globe, May 7, 1991; “One on One with Oprah,” www.etonline.com, Jan. 3, 2007; “And Oprah’s No Mike Tyson,” New York Post, Nov. 11, 1988; “I Want a Baby—A Little Heir,” Star, Sept. 12, 1989; Joanna Powell, “Oprah’s Awakening,” Good Housekeeping, Dec. 1998; “New Oprah Shocker! Fiancé Stedman Had Sex with a Gay Cousin,” News Extra, Mar. 24, 1992; Laura B. Randolph, “Oprah Opens Up About Her Weight, Her Wedding, and Why She Withheld the Book,” Ebony, Oct. 1993; Rosalind Rossi, “New Oprah ‘Shocker’ Spurs $300 Million Defamation Suit,” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 27, 1992; Ann McLaughlin, “Oprah Wins Suit Against Montreal Tab,” Montreal Gazette, May 3, 1992; Rosalind Rossi, “Winfrey, Friend Win Lawsuit by Default,” Chicago Sun-Times, May 2, 1992; “Oprah Winfrey Wins Suit by Default,” Chicago Tribune, May 2, 1992; Mark Steyn, “Comic Oprah,” National Review, Mar. 23, 1998; Barbara Reynolds, “Because of Others I Can Live the Dream,” USA Today, Aug. 8, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,” Spy, Dec. 1986; Leslie Marshall, “The Intentional Oprah,” InStyle, Nov. 1998; “Oprah to Offer Eccentric Dining,” USA Today, Nov. 21, 1988; Irv Kupcinet, “Kup’s Column,” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 26, 1988; “Oprah Winfrey,” People Weekly, Dec. 28, 1987; “Grapevine Squashed,” Newsday, Sept. 10, 1987; Tony Castro, “Threat to Top Talk Show,” Globe, Sept. 1, 1987; Bill Carter, “Oprah!” Baltimore Sun, Sept. 24, 1987; Robert Feder, “WMAQ Sale Will Leave Big Talkers Speechless,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 29, 1987.