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Agreed, especially since Tom is the only one who can help!

They may care, but Tom is a taco shy of a combination platter. Hopefuilly the extraterrestrials will come and get him before Katie realizes that the her rich famous and delusional movie star husband gives all his money away and boards a spaceship.

Haven't decided about Katie though. She's really cute, but Tom's just a little scary when it comes to her. Hope she has support far away from Tom and his religious cult - oops I mean religion. (if you can call worshiping a SciFi fiction author a diety). How do they get away with not paying taxes? Hubbard died and worms are eating him. But if you believe what he preeched it a religion. Whatever.

She either REALLY loves him, loves being controlled, or subtly manipulated, or being fairly wealthy, or living the life of a Super star's wife (at least for now). Or she's just putting up with it all until the prenup runs out.

When NK divorced Cruise she was FREE!!, rich and successful.

I'm ruminating again and just can't quit typing for some reason. I just started taking a mild (mild my ass) ADHD stimulant drug and I CAN"T STOP - HELP!!! lol

Beth - I like you already,
First, don’t get me wrong. I think Oprah (even though I have some problems with her – I’m sure she’d have problems with me too) is an extremely intelligent woman/reporter/interviewer/talk show host/educator/motivator/for the most part (well maybe half of the most part) a little bit of a racist – but most of us in the US are, unfortunately. I say racist (which may be too strong of a word) but this woman has been working to act “white” since she was a reporter. At least on TV. Back then she had to in TV. Now on the Ofra show she’s pretty much an intelligent oreo who interjects reminders that she’s black – usually for the sake of humor. She has back guests who are either dressed in African garb and who have won Nobel prizes or are otherwise successful and to some extent have lost their heritage (but not the costume/accent). She LOVES those Cosby throwbacks.

Don't forget the EVO queen/big mouth Rachel Ray whose air-brushed pic on on every box of crackers in the grocery store?

HOW MUCH MORE MONEY DOES THE MEGALOMANIAC OFRA REALLY NEED?

We get it you're an extremely successful AA businesswomen. You say you grew up in poverty and in really bad hoods but does she help her own community? NO. She builds a gazillion dollar school for girls in Africa. She's an American - an African descendant. If I had money I'd help out peeps from my community here in the US. I have German blood but I'd help my own - not do a media masturbation of myself helping girls in Germany for the positive press and so everybody can tell me how wonderful I am (Ofra seems to thrive on that). Don't even get me started about how her students in Africa are being abused sexually (just as all the others not in her school are).

THEN!!! SHE had to go to Africa herself and fire the person and "fix" the situation. THAT's a megalomaniac for you. She could pick amoung the best most experienced who know the cukture and the area to the administer the school for her under her perview. Is she a school administrator? Any experience running a school? Does she REALLY undertand the situation there (or only what she's been told)? SHE runs it from CHICAGO?? Because, of course, no one could do it any better than she. Even though having a talk show and a being a former journalist, does the ability to present herself as white or black that give her a unique understanding childhood development of abused worthlessly regarded girls who are often killed at birth because of their sex? Besides, unless she does it on TV she really doesn't do it.

Ever sit though O's entire show? During the second 2/3 of the hour they go to commercial about every 1½ - 2½ minutes. LITERALLY. (watch and see!! – it’s true. Time the actual broadcast minus the ads and you’ll see I’m not lying. KA- CHING!!! Yeah, she improving lives alright for 20-25 minutes between commercials. NO WONDER she’s worth a gazillion $. I would to for her salary – but instead of making $100 mill per hour in ad revenue (remember her ratings are HUGE and the ad time is very pricy and she owns the show and the production company – so the advertisers pay the prod co. – which she owns. per DAY is ad buys I’d do it for 10 min per day and give you a 45-50min “hour long” show.

About 40 mins into the show: “Ofra: so you wrote a book? I LOVED it. We’ll talk about it when we come back.” (I’m not exaggerating here).

I think soccer moms are beginning to figure out she's milkng them for their disposable incomes. Even her book list is a joke now. "I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike, I wish I had a bike.

POOF!!

I have a bike!!!! (what a joke)

She's IS articulate, VERY INTELLIGENT, a great interviewer, and somewhat of a racist (she speaks differently when interviewing AA guests. Don’t even get me started about Obama. I like Obama, but she turns off the articulate/intelligent Ofra and her speech becomes grammatically questionable and DEFINITELY Ebonic. . I would care if she she spoke a little Ebonics, but don’t pander to your target audience but talk white to your soccer mom’s on your show and use AA slang or pronunciations for a laugh. Then tour with Obama and switch to Ebonics and black pronunciations to pander to his AA audience. MLK was a great man, but the AAs in the audience don’t need you to remind them of that. And Obama (although I’m REALLY impressed with he and Clinton) doesn’t need your help. Have him give you a call if he writes a book. Your 20 minute (oops, I mean hour show) will sell gazillions of books to your white soccer mom audience.

She IS and EXTREMLY talented TV personality and intelligent woman. I would care if she she spoke a little Ebonics, but don’t pander to your target audience. Just speak normally for you. But does that qualify her to run a school for girls in Africa? As soon as there's a problem she has no professional staff to deal with it, no one there at the school has ANY real authority to resolve the situation and then report to the big (reallg big) O. NO - she has to fly there her self and micromanage because even though she has no professional training or experience running a school - only SHE can save the day.

Her talent is huge but her head and ego and hunger for publicity is makes her body look like a toothpic.

(Sorry for venting. lol)

I do watch her show occasionally if I like the guest and she is a good interviewer.

(I tood my ADHD meds. can you tell?) LOL

One of the big industry magazines does write obits for celebrities before they die so they have something ready to run in the event that it does happen. They have a criteria for writing them though. The celeb has to be elderly, have a terminal illness, or be deemed in danger of dying prematurely (they said it differently though). They claim that her obit being made public was a mistake. I wish I could think of the magazine...maybe it was US Weekly?

I used to work for a newspaper and it is very common for newspapers and news agencies to have obits written for well-known people, not just ones who are in trouble. This is how they get them out so fast when the celebrity dies. Agencies like the Associated Press have rolls of literally thousands of pre-written obituaries for a variety of people from celebrities to statesmen. This doesn't make them vultures, it makes them prepared newspeople.

It's standard procedure in the news business to pre-write as much of an obituary as possible for newsmakers. When I worked for the paper, I pre-wrote obits for former governors of our states, celebrities who were born/raised in the area, church leaders, local activists and other community members. Britney's obituary being pre-written isn't the media singling her out for disaster, it's the media preparing for all contingencies. The Queen of England and the Pope both have pre-written obits ready to go too - is that exploitation to you too?