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*West Hollywood artist Bronwyn Lundberg has a new piece she has just unveiled and it comes with much controversy but Lundberg is not surprised by the criticisms nor the praises she has received for her work of art, reports The Guardian. Art no matter the subject or artist has received criticism throughout history. Every art piece has gone through [...]
*Discovery CEO David Zaslav believes Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network should begin turning a profit in late2013, reports Deadline.com. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The optimistic forecast to analysts this morning is a slight improvement from three months ago when he said that his joint venture with Winfrey would merely begin to break even by late [...]
*Spike Lee, Rosie O’Donnell and Omarosa were among the celebs who retweeted a quote falsely attributed to Will Smith that pointed out the injustice between the freedom of Trayvon Martin’s killer and quick arrest of Kim Kardashian’s flour bomber. The fake tweet says “WE live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim [...]
*Star Jones isn’t well liked by those she’s crossed paths with in the past. She appeared on “The Rosie Show” recently and discussed her experience on “The View.” She revealed that during her latest appearance on the show, she felt set up. Rosie called it an ambush. “Ambush is a really tough word,” Jones said. [...]
*Radar Online is reporting that Oprah Winfrey is trying to recruit her close friend Maria Shriver to host a show on OWN as early as this fall. The news comes days after Winfrey cancelled Rosie O’Donnell’s short-lived talk show due to low ratings, and laid off 30 staffers at the network. “Oprah knows she needs [...]
*Rosie O’Donnell shot a video to tamp down all the talk surrounding the cancellation of her talk show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. “It was fair,” said O’Donnell from the Chicago set of The Rosie Show. “Listen: Oprah gave me an amazing shot at doing this. She really did. She put me back on TV. [...]
*It’s all over for Rosie O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. “The Rosie Show” is being ditched by the network five months after it initially aired. The show premiered in October to about 500,000 viewers but lost about half that audience within days of its debut. To no avail producers tried changing the show’s format. It [...]
*Since Oprah’s namesake show went off the air last September, her magazine’s newsstand sales have also faded from sight, reports. Adweek Brass at Hearst, which publishes the 2.4 million circulated publication with Winfrey, had downplayed the impact of the show’s ending on the magazine, saying they expected fans to turn to it to get their [...]
*Oprah Winfrey made a personal appearance before TV critics this morning as the new CEO of her network OWN. During brief opening remarks before introducing Rosie O’Donnell to discuss her new talk show for the network, Winfrey announced that she will be hosting a new primetime show “OWN Your Life: The Oprah Class,” which will [...]
*A number of outlets live-blogged Oprah Winfrey’s first of two star-studded surprise shows at Chicago’s United Center – an extravaganza that included Stevie Wonder, Queen Latifah, Madonna, Halle Berry, Beyonce and much more – including a Steve Carell/Tina Fey taped piece on Oprah’s infamous “ugly cry.” Oprah nearly went into it herself after guest Aretha [...]
*Chris Brown has found an unlikely ally in Rosie O’Donnell, who accused the singer’s detractors – including ABC host Robin Roberts – of racism for maligning his window-breaking behavior more than, she argues, the equivalent by white stars. “I just don’t know why this kid seems to be held to a different standard than anyone [...]
*Oprah Winfrey may be vacating her Harpo Studios on Chicago’s West Side once her talk show ends in May, but the complex won’t be vacant for long. Executives at Harpo announced this morning that the facility will serve as home base for Rosie O’Donnell’s new talk show debuting this fall on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey [...]
*Discovery Communications on Friday said it will invest an additional $50 million in OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network this year, particularly in programming, which it said will mean the company will break even on the channel this year instead of turning a profit as it had previously predicted. According to the Hollywood Reporter, President and [...]
*Oprah Winfrey has promised to bring documentary movies into homes across the United States on her new OWN television network in an effort she likened to her hugely successful book club. At a Saturday launch party at the Sundance Film Festival, which has long championed documentary movies, Winfrey told a crowd that outspoken celebrity Rosie [...]
*Vanessa Williams and Lionel Richie are among the celebrities tapped to search their family roots in a new season of Lisa Kudrow’s TV series “Who Do You Think You Are?” NBC said Tuesday that Ashley Judd, Steve Buscemi, Rosie O’Donnell, Kim Cattrall and Tim McGraw will also explore their family trees in season 2. Kudrow, [...]
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