Good-Bye, Oprah, Whoever You Are

Apparently a woman named Oprah Winfrey has had her own television show for the last twenty-five years and yesterday was the last episode! She didn't want to say good-bye, but instead said, "until we meet again. To God be the glory."

The NY Times equates her improbable popularity and success to her ability to be two opposite things at once; spiritual guide and show business diva.

Maybe that's it. I don't get it. I never saw her show and during the brief periods when I accidentally found myself watching her in one venue or another, I found her to be extremely irritating. She presented herself as someone who knew everything and yet she was often duped by people who told whoppers or wrote fanciful autobiographies.

She gave audience members extravagant gifts, built a school for girls in Africa that has had more than its share of scandals, published a magazine called "O" (maybe still does), and started her own television network, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network). OWN at this juncture appears to be comprised of chick flicks and recycled programs from the stable of people she has mentored, like Dr. Phil and Suze Ormond.

According to a poll conducted by the NY Daily News, 55% of those responding never watched her show and won't miss it. I am one of them.

Happy Birthday Rosie!

Today is Rosie O'Donnell's 48th birthday and with it comes word that she may be staging a comeback on daytime television!

The only thing we need less than another Rosie O'Donnell show is terminal cancer, but apparently there are those who think she might be marketable enough to replace Oprah when Ms. Winfrey goes off the air in September of 2011.

As if.

We all know Oprah is irreplaceable, especially on daytime TV.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

On Monday's show, I understand that Oprah Winfrey visited the FLDS Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas. Disclaimer: I didn't watch it, I only know what I read about it.

Oprah, obviously not looking for a job in journalism, asked the hard hitting questions of the women, like, "What's with the poofy thing going on?" regarding their hair.

They assured her it's the style, and lest you think it takes up all their day most can achieve the Prairie Poof in fifteen minutes at the most.

Perhaps they allowed Oprah access to their cult only if she didn't ask any real questions. I would want to know what would possess a woman to put up with this polygamy crap, how they could allow their daughters to be 'married off' to much older men when they are teenagers, and how young men are driven off the compound so that the old dudes have access to the free range chickies.

But that's just me.