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Oprah Credits Ebert Date as Secret to Success
by Jen Yamato | November 16, 2005
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Oprah Winfrey has finally revealed the secret to her success: one fateful date back in 1986 with film critic Roger Ebert.

On a recent episode of her phenomenally successful daytime talk show, Oprah took her viewers on a nostalgic trip through 20 years of television's "The Oprah Winfrey Show," pinpointing her decision to go into syndication as the turning point in her career. Then the host of small-time gabfest "AM Chicago," Oprah first met Ebert when he and then-partner, Gene Siskel, appeared on a Baltimore-area show she was hosting. Soon after, the two went on a date (according to Ebert's website, it was actually two dates). Naturally, he took her to the movies, then to one of the classier joints in town -- Hamburger Hamlet. They talked syndication, he gave her some business contacts, and the rest is history.

Nearly twenty years later, the Academy Award-nominated media hyphenate has her own talk show, her own magazine, an entire cable television channel, produces a Broadway musical, and has an estimated net worth of $1 billion.

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Comments (1-7 of 7 posts) | Reply
VML
VML writes:
on Nov 16 2005 05:47 PM

Did they make out? O_o

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t-joint
t-joint writes:
on Nov 16 2005 10:35 PM

Now we know who to blame.

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dracus
dracus writes:
on Nov 17 2005 08:27 AM

There's something kind of Stephen King creepy about this. :)

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ffinixs
ffinixs writes:
on Nov 17 2005 11:12 AM

Your comments are so funny, and I'm not sarcastic.

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Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer writes:
on Nov 17 2005 08:37 PM

I wonder if Ebert hit Oprah. AAAAAAaagh! My eyes, my eyes! I'm blind. Here's a picture of them together, way back then:

http://www.suprmchaos.com/eberts_022505.jpg


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Flim Springfield
Flim Springfield writes:
on Nov 17 2005 11:31 PM

One of the two really lowered their standards for that date.

I'm still trying to figure out which one...


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skletonkee
skletonkee writes:
on Nov 18 2005 08:28 AM

In reply to this comment (#827839)
[b]:falloff:[/b]
that is too much.....

but only in america can two fat folks (one white/one black) go on a date and both end up hugely popular. (and then the black woman becomes the most powerful woman in the world..)..and then they both get thin.

only in america.


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