text stringlengths 12 102k |
|---|
The beloved Queen of Talk celebrated her birthday on Tuesday, which is reason enough for us to take a look back at some of her most memorable moments and catchphrases. |
1. You Get a Car! |
In The Oprah Winfrey Show's unforgettable free car giveaway episode, which originally aired on Sept. 13, 2004, the audience was led to believe that only one of them would win a brand new Pontiac G6. Staff members then handed each audience member a box, telling them that one of the boxes would have the key to the free c... |
This led Winfrey to repeatedly yell to an awestruck audience, "You get a car!" |
"I was saying that because people were screaming so loudly they didn't know what was going on," Winfrey told ET in a 2015 interview, 11 years after the big moment. "Prior to that moment, I had said, 'Open up your boxes. One person has a key.' So when I looked at the faces of the audience, they go, 'But I have a key ...... |
Winfrey made it OK again to eat carbs while dieting when she declared in January 2016, "Bread is back!" She tweeted out a video to her millions of followers proclaiming that she has eaten bread "every single day" on her Weight Watchers diet and still lost 26 pounds. |
Following her carb confession, Weight Watchers stock went up 20 percent, closing at $13.29 a share. Seeing as Winfrey owns 10 percent of the company, she earned $12.5 million. |
In a video posted to her Instagram, Winfrey shared that her favorite meal to cook for her guy, Stedman Graham, is black-eyed peas and cornbread. |
"Honey, hush. That's all you need," she said with a wink. |
In a more recent moment, Winfrey and her best friend, Gayle King, offered up some life advice to fans in a new video series for O, The Oprah Magazine called "The Oprah Gayle Chronicles." |
The two got hilariously candid when one woman revealed that she caught her boyfriend lying about having a job. Both Winfrey and King burst out laughing. |
"Oh my god, this is a no-brainer," Winfrey said as she and King then said together, "Boy, bye!" |
On an episode of her talk show in 2006, Winfrey couldn't hide her reaction after eating a chicken recipe that Anna Ginsberg submitted to the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest that won her a $1 million prize. |
"I think it’s delicious, is what it really is," she said while her face told another story. |
Winfrey responded to the moment over a decade later, admitting, "The truth for me is I like salt and pepper on my chicken. That's just the truth. That's what I was thinking: 'This chicken needs some salt and pepper."" |
Winfrey is loving every moment of growing older. In an interview with ET in October 2017, she gushed over where she was at in life. |
"Guys, this is the best time of my life," she exclaimed. |
"I really am in a really good space," Winfrey added. "I'm probably the most content person [you've] met." |
The skateboard set has become a hot retail commodity. |
A bunch of new specialty stores are joining national chains such as J.C. Penney Co. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. in courting U.S. teens. |
The reason: Teens are a burgeoning demographic group, and they have more disposable income than ever. It's also a bet on the future; if teens shop at your store now, there's a good chance they will when they're grown up. |
But despite the flood of spaghetti straps and cargo pants in America's malls, one subset of teens has largely been overlooked: plus-sized teen girls. |
Sears plans to fix that. |
Coming this fall, Sears will have "Mainframe for You" shops in 410 stores offering teen fashions in sizes 16 to 24. The Hoffman Estates-based retailer tested the large-size teen concept in 60 stores last year and received a strong response. |
"Right now, we do not believe anyone else in the mall is catering to her," said Sears spokeswoman Linda Blakley. "She wants to wear what's new and trendy, but not the styles her mom wears." |
There will be signs in Mainframe, Sears' regular-sized junior area, directing larger teens to the new shops, Blakley said. |
It's a smart move. Few teen lines offer sizes beyond 14, forcing larger girls to choose from adult offerings. And Sears already does big business in women's large-size apparel and lingerie, giving it the required expertise in sizing. |
The Softer Side of Sears may have stalled, but so far, the Larger Side of Sears is hitting on all cylinders. |
Shopper dysfunction: Every day, more people are shopping on-line. They're merrily surfing the net, gathering product information and using customized cyber models to try things on. But are they really buying? |
A new survey of the top 25 electronic commerce sites suggests that the majority aren't. Only 33 percent of shoppers who place merchandise in the shopping cart actually purchase it, the survey found. That's a scary number, because only about 6 percent of those visiting a site ever attempt a purchase at all. |
Net Effect Systems, the firm that sponsored the survey, believes it knows what is causing the disconnect. When shoppers get stuck trying to complete a transaction, there's no one around to help. |
Net Effect, which sells customer service support to e-commerce companies, obviously has a vested interest getting companies to spend more on customer assistance. But it appears few e-tailers are ready to heed its message. |
Ninety percent of those surveyed said they don't offer on-line real-time assistance for frustrated shoppers. The same high percentage said that doing so was not one of their top five priorities in the future. Seventy-five percent said they don't even post an easy-to-read telephone number. |
Good job: Don't despair. Two e-commerce players--Lands' End Inc. and Victoria's Secret--are winning kudos for improving the e-commerce shopping experience. |
In a survey of the 10 most popular U.S. on-line catalog sellers by Octane Software Inc., Lands' End took first place in its industry category for its "imaginative use of on-line guides/assistants." |
The Dodgeville, Wis.-based cataloger was lauded for its personal model tool, which allows shoppers to create a model mirroring their dimensions and then have the model try on various outfits. |
Underwear emporium Victoria's Secret came in first in the "general support" category for its "excellent on-line help and easy-to-access customer service pages containing frequently asked questions." |
Still, the catalog group in general scored low in the customer assistance area compared with other on-line players such as airlines, booksellers and banks. |
Bruce Willis has learned a valuable lesson about rubbers. |
Willis is suing a Malaysian company and the guys who run it after investing $2 million in what the suit calls "a revolutionary technology to produce devulcanised 'green rubber.'" The product is non-toxic and recyclable. |
Short story -- Willis claims Elastomer Technologies and The Petra Group, run by HRH Prince Imran Ibni Tuanku Ja'afar and Datuk Vinod B. Sekhar (both common spelling) guaranteed that it was a "no risk" investment. In the lawsuit filed in Federal Court, Willis says he had a "put option," meaning he could demand his money... |
Willis says he got $1,1000,000 back and is still owed $900,000. |
Bangalore: Realtors intensified their demand for a full-fledged industry status to ensure organised funding for the sector. The fresh demand comes close on the heels of the cash-for-loan scam that has rocked the real estate industry and its financing sources. "It is high time the government accords formal industry stat... |
Divan further said Aadhaar has given the state a “switch” that can cause the “civil death of a citizen”. “The collection of biometric data was patently illegal, and that could not have been corrected by passing the Aadhaar Act. |
A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday started the final hearing on around 28 petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its linking to a number of government schemes. Opening his arguments against the 12-digit biometric identification number, senior lawyer Shyam Divan a... |
The petitioners further submitted that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was initially set up to offer a form of identification to those who did not hold any identification document but that it may be seen from the data that the actual number of people to whom Aadhaar was issued first was very small.... |
Besides, two other petitions challenging Aadhaar — one by the West Bengal government on the mandatory linking of Aadhaar to various schemes and another challenging its mandatory linking with mobile numbers — are also being heard. The petitions also include one by former Karnataka High Court judge Justice KS Puttuswamy ... |
Last fall, candidate Donald Trump made an appearance on the “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” and exited as he so often does — a supervillain walking unscathed out of a burning building. The interview, what with the host’s amiable treatment of Trump and the infamous “hair-tousle,” earned Fallon accusations of norma... |
In a recent interview with New York Times reporter David Itzkoff, Fallon expressed his regret at the way the segment was perceived. |
Yet amid this image crisis, Fallon seems naively indifferent to optics. Despite the Page Six story that ran last October concerning Jimmy’s drinking habits and NBC’s subsequent warning to cut back, nothing stopped him from cracking a “lukewarm can of Budweiser” after a filming a sketch in plain view of his interviewer. |
Yes, the internet is cruel and unmerciful — that’s nothing new. But for a TV personality whose popularity in large part rested on his once-forward-thinking use of Twitter, whose name became nearly synonymous with “hashtags,” this fear of his favorite platform feels at best childish and, at worst, hypocritical and fraud... |
That said, Itzkoff seems to share the sympathetic opinion of Fallon that many of his sources — Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, and Tina Fey to name a few — harbor. It’s easy to imagine many of Itzkoff's readers will too. But Fallon’s fate rests in a realization he may or may not ever reach, the one we all come to at some ... |
It’s hard to fault him for defending the value of a good laugh unsullied by political ugliness. The problem here isn’t that Fallon’s buoyant, apolitical brand of humor and escapism. isn’t appealing. To the contrary: It feels like a luxury to be rationed in wartime. |
Audiences want realness in a time when the unthinkable happens, week after week, someone to ground them, to confirm that no, they are not going insane. Looking for distractions is futile when it’s impossible to be distracted from this political nightmare, so maybe the class clown simply isn’t the right person for the j... |
We can harp on Fallon all we want for normalizing an extreme candidate, for failing to take a stand in a climate of uncertainty and alarm. But what do we expect? America fell in love with him for his playful antics, his inability to be serious or keep a straight face. But Fallon’s inherent boyish charms read as just th... |
The rest of the late-night gang — Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah — are, at even in their funniest moments, essentially serious performers. Next to them, the NBC host feels like a little kid trying to play with the grown-ups, a boy swimming in his dad’s suit. It’s hard to even imagi... |
Critics cry for Fallon to grow up, but will we still like him if he does? |
Mother-of-three Jenni Bignell is preparing for the trip of a lifetime to raise money for Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice. |
The Cambodia Challenge will see Jenni trekking 85km over nine days, journeying through the heart of old Indochina. |
Jenni said: “Some may think this is just an opportunity to have a holiday but if you care to think deeper, it is actually far more challenging than that. |
“Sharing a trip with strangers, sharing a tent in the jungle with someone unknown, walking between 12 and 15 miles a day, every day, for five consecutive days, in heat and high humidity – these things are not a package holiday and they will take me out of my comfort zone, into a situation where team work will be all im... |
Jenni, who lives in Worthing, is putting on two events in February and March to support her fundraising. |
A dance will be held at the same venue on Friday, March 10, from 8pm to 11.50pm, with live music from the 1960s to 1980s with Dr Fun and great recorded dance tunes. Tickets are £10, email Jenni to book. |
Jenni said: “My personal interest in Chestnut Tree House is because of a lad I met when I was a newly-qualified homeopath and who some 12 years later still benefits from the respite care provided by their team. |
“I have been very fortunate to have three healthy children grow into adulthood to now have a small granddaughter. |
The trekkers will be exploring rice paddies and jungles dotted with ruins and temples. Up to 50 people have pledged to raise at least £2,800 each to do the trek as a personal challenge and to provide much-needed funds for the childrens’ hospice. |
As prophesied by the film Dawn of the Dead, when there is no more room left in hell, the dead will walk the Earth. Apparently, they will also take the train. In an inspired indoor display at Toronto’s Union Station, an enormous set of decaying zombie-hands reminds commuters of the February 10 return of AMC’s hit series... |
Life is full of surprises – but this one was a doozy. |
On Wednesday, West Australian Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, an assistant minister in the Morrison government, and Sarah Henderson, also an assistant minister, denied that the Liberal Party is anti-women. They also defended the Coalition’s merit-based system of choosing candidates. |
On Thursday, marginal-seat holder Nicole Flint said her party had been incredibly supportive of women. |
And yes, their comments are completely staggering; staggering because the Liberal Party’s track record on women is utterly appalling. Women hold just 20 per cent of the Coalition government’s seats – and if it loses the next election, women will hold even fewer seats because so many Liberal women hold marginal seats. S... |
Staggering because while I am sure there are Labor men who’ve completely lost their minds and behaved badly, they haven’t yet achieved the notoriety of Barnaby Joyce, Andrew Broad, George Christensen, Craig Kelly and I could go on. |
Staggering because Liberal women keep losing preselection fights to Liberal men who just don’t have the track record. |
These comments are staggering – but they are also utterly understandable – and I think I have the explanation for these comments by Reynolds and Henderson. Let me take you back nearly 50 years. |
He reminds us of another case, media heir Patty Hearst, who was abused and raped by her kidnappers, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. After her abduction and abuse, Hearst ended up joining the group and took part in one of their robberies. |
Both of these are examples of Stockholm syndrome, what Kets de Vries describes as “an extreme example of identification with the aggressor”. |
It’s almost as if she believes the endless droning of her male colleagues who talk about how great women are, how they are being promoted within the party, how numbers are increasing. Late last year, deputy Liberal leader Josh Frydenberg claimed the Morrison government’s inner ministry had additional representation of ... |
I mean, not like it’s big numbers, 27.3 per cent at the beginning of former prime minister Turnbull’s tenure compared to 26.1 per cent now. But you can see how Reynolds has internalised this messaging. She and Henderson are just identifying with their captors. |
Of course, there’s another reason Henderson and Reynolds have made these comments – they’ve made them in order to attack Bill Shorten. Reynolds claims Shorten has “shamelessly politically weaponised this issue”. She’s dead wrong on that one. She can blame just one person, Leonie Morgan, who drew the attention of women ... |
I’m confident that neither Reynolds nor Henderson would pay much attention to my advice. But I’ve interviewed so many women from the Liberal Party over the years and the majority of them say the same thing, that the Liberal Party has a woman problem and it does nothing to address it. |
And Sue Boyce, who retired as a Liberal senator in 2014, had the perfect cure – a support group, just like the one suggested by Kets de Vries. She had a name for it: Foundation 51. But at this rate, it will be another 51 years before the Liberal Party has anything like equal representation of women; and the apologia of... |
It was one of the darkest chapters in recent memory: hundreds of white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a rally to protest the removal of Confederate monuments, during which a counterprotester and two police officers died. William Brangham talks with P.J. Tobia, Mary McCord of the Georgetown Univ... |
The PGA Tour starts its California swing this week with the 2019 Desert Classic, or as golf romantics affectionately know it, the old Bob Hope Classic. This tournament has tons of history despite sponsors rotating through the years, with Arnold Palmer winning the event five times, especially the pro-am tournament as a ... |
With that history brings some course experience worth evaluating in building your DFS lineups, making fantasy-golf picks, or for those inclined, putting a few bucks on players to win. Some facts about the Desert Classic to keep in mind: The first three rounds are played at three courses—PGA West's Stadium course, desig... |
Our panel of experts—which includes a PGA Tour caddie providing insight from the front lines every week thanks to our partnership with The Caddie Network—plus expert golf handicappers, correctly predicted Matt Kuchar's success last week at the Sony Open. And in the fall wraparound schedule, we predicted three of the si... |
PGA Tour Caddie Guest Picker of the Week: Jon Rahm (7-1) — Yes, Jon Rahm is the defending champ. This tournament puts a premium on par-5 scoring. In 2018, Rahm finished fifth for the season in birdies or better on the par 5s. He’s also ranked 10th in strokes gained off the tee this season, which should see him with ple... |
Pat Mayo, DraftKings/Fantasy National analyst: Abraham Ancer (28-1) — Ancer—who won the Australian Open in December—gained nearly six strokes off the tee at last year's Desert Classic—almost a full stroke better than second-place Bryson DeChambeau. How’d Ancer do it? Well, he hit over 80 percent of fairways at the cour... |
Mayo: Hudson Swafford (40-1) — Since missing the cut at last year’s Players Championship, "the Swafficer" has made 9 out of 10 cuts, with just one finish inside the Top 25 — T12 at the Canadian Open. Until last week. Not out of nowhere, but certainly surprising, Swafford began looking like the guy who heated up at Sony... |
Brandon Gdula, FanDuel/numberFire editor: Patrick Cantlay (18-1) -- Patrick Cantlay hasn’t played since the Hero World Challenge (fifth-place finish), but he ranks third among the field in strokes gained: approach and off the tee over his past 36 rounds, via FantasyNational.com. With Justin Rose and Jon Rahm’s odds so ... |
Dr. Lou Riccio, Columbia University: Joaquin Niemann (66-1) — This is a long-shot disguised as a player who could be poised to break out. My optimization model gives Niemann the best chance to win out of anyone in the field—and that's including favorites Jon Rahm and Justin Rose. The extremely talented 19-year-old had ... |
Golf Digest editors picks: Aaron Wise (28-1) — We feel the 2018 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year isn't getting enough credit for being one of the elite young talents in golf. Wise ran away with the AT&T Byron Nelson and finished the year strongly with top-20 finishes at three of the four FedEx Cup playoff events. Wise playe... |
PGA Tour Caddie: Hudson Swafford (40-1). Nice week last week at the Sony Open, which was his first top-10, believe it or not, since a T-10 two seasons ago in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He’s back to using a TaylorMade driver. These odds have continued to go down in the past day or so on the recent champion here i... |
Gdula: Joaquin Niemann (66-1). His elite ball-striking keeps him bankable at pretty long odds. His putter doesn’t always run hot, but he finished top-10 five times in 18 events in 2018. |
Riccio: Sungjae Im (50-1). Sungjae led the Web.com Tour last year in most birdies for the year (397), so you know he can go low. And that's what translates to success at the Desert Classic. Im has gained strokes in every category over the past 10 rounds, according to FantasyNational.com. And in my optimization model, h... |
Golf Digest editors: Daniel Berger (66-1). We were tempted to go with Corey Conners—the Canadian who Monday qualified last week at the Sony Open, then cashed in with a T-5 finish—but at the same odds, you can find Presidents Cupper Daniel Berger. The talented American struggled with wrist injuries for the latter part o... |
PGA Tour Caddie: Justin Rose (7-1) has new equipment in play for the first time this week, and he added the Desert Classic late to his schedule. It’s going to take at least 20 under this week. Though Justin has been putting better, it’s still a weakness of his. |
Mayo: Adam Hadwin (20-1) Hadwin has to start the week on the Stadium course, where winds are expected to be at their strongest on Thursdays and Saturdays. That makes my countryman a full fade for me. |
Gdula: Adam Hadwin (20-1) — Hadwin is a course horse but he ranks 104th in strokes gained: approach over the past 36 rounds and has been largely carried by his putting of late. At these high-priced odds, I'm passing. |
Riccio: Zach Johnson (45-1) I agree with the others on Hadwin—he's too expensive in DFS to back. And Johnson falls into the same category for me. He missed the cut painfully last week, so I'd pivot to other players who set up well at his price point. |
Editors: Chez Reavie (30-1) — This is an overreaction to his stellar play at last week's Sony Open and recent form. But in nine appearances in the desert, Chez has only one top-10. So though he's familiar at these courses, he doesn't necessarily make a bunch of birdies here, which doesn't make him valuable in DFS or be... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.