 Forbes' 2012 "Celebrity 100" list. Posted on Wed, 16 May 2012 11:12  It used to be enough for a celebrity to behave or sing or swing a bat really well. Now to be considered a real success, he or she needs sell clothes, hawk perfumes-perhaps even invest in technology startups. While she has not stormed Silicon Valley just yet, Jennifer Lopez is a state-of-the-art celebrity success story. With $52 million in earnings over the final 12 months and a massive amount of fame, Lopez lands at No. 1 on our Celebrity 100 list for the first time. A few years ago it looked like Lopez was done. Her albums, like the all-Spanish Como Ama una Mujer, failed to find the broad audience she once enjoyed. Her films, like El Cantante, flopped. ( The top ten! ) The full list is here at the source!  Transgender Model Lea T. Makes Her First Post-Op Runway Appearance Posted on Tue, 15 May 2012 02:16  Lea T. took to the runway in São Paulo Saturday night in celebration of Elle Brazil's 24th anniversary-but her turn on the catwalk marked an crucial personal landmark in the mannequin's career as well: According to Made in Brazil blog's Juliano Corbetta, this is Lea T's first mannequining job after undergoing sexual reassignalment surgery. The mannequin opened up about her plans to have surgery when she went on Oprah in February of ultimate year, telling Oprah, “Of course physically, this operation is a big operation…But at the same time, I think it is intellectual too. To think like, ‘Wow, I cut part of my body.'”
Oprah & Michelle Obama At War, Trade Insults, Claims New Book Posted on Mon, 14 May 2012 08:04  Oprah Winfrey and First Lady Michelle Obama have conflicted repeatedly behind the scenes, an unseen war that has dramatically played out before and during Barack Obama's presidency, according to a new book filled with blockbuster allegations. The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, written by former New York Times Magazine editor Ed Klein, charges that a highly mistrustful Michelle accused Oprah of wanting to use the White House to pump up her TV ratings and that both women have traded insults about each other with close associates. Michelle allegedly insulted Oprah's weight at one point, with Oprah claiming that the First Lady "hates fat people." The book, due out this week, is excerpted in Sunday's New York Post. ( Side eyeing all these nameless sources... ) This sounds like total bullshit. Not to mention that the author Edward Klein has a credibility problem... Source, Source 2 #OOP-Rah Posted on Mon, 07 May 2012 13:33  The losses at Oprah Winfrey's stumbling cable channel are approaching a staggering $330 million, according to a report over the weekend. And now industry insiders are predicting the Oprah Winfrey Network will not be able to outlive another year if it doesn't find a hit show and make a dramatic turnaround. Discovery, which partnered 50-50 with Winfrey to launch the network and has been underwriting its costs, has invested almost $600 million in it since 2008, according to an extensive report in commerceweek magazine. But since it started on the air in January 2011, “OWN may have missing as much as $330 million,” the magazine reports. ( STEDMAN!... ) No One Wins a Car In Oprah's New Game Posted on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:41 Game designaler and champion Jane McGonigal advocates games as a tool for making the world a better place. She has a book and a pile of research explaining all of the ways in which games can be favourable for players' physical and intellectual health as well as for the wider world. So now, it seems nearly inevitable that she has made a game for no less powerful a person than Oprah Winfrey, media titan. The project, found on Facebook, is called "The Thank You Game" and aims, aptly enough, to make players express gratitude more often in tinheritor daily lives. ( Wait what? ) Oprah Pulling A Kardashian-Style Wedding To Save OWN? Posted on Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:06  At long ultimate marriage? Not so fast, OPRAH insiders say she is “pulling a Kardashian” - staging a wedding to STEDMAN to boost her failing TV net. IN a desperate tender to save her floundering network, Oprah Winfrey is planning to stage an elaborate televised wedding to her longtime love Stedman Graham - and she is offered him a staggering $100 million “prenup” to go along with the scheme. “you are the only one who can save the day,” she pleaded with Stedman through tears recently, The ENQUIRER has learned. “Oprah's realized that the shows she is created are just not attracting interest - the fans want to see HER,” said a TV industry insider. “So she is devised a secret plan to save OWN by getting married to Stedman on live TV.” The 58-year-old media mogul shared her bombshell idea with Stedman, 61, her boyfriend of more than 25 years, a few weeks ago at her estate in California, a friend of Stedman's revealed. “It was a beautiful aftermidday and they were walking hand-in-hand in her gardens,” disclosed the friend. “Oprah said, ‘There is something I really need to ask you, Stedman.' “She began to collapse crying, saying she had created a mess of OWN. Then Oprah looked at Stedman and said, ‘you have always been my knight in shining armor. Will you ultimately marry me?' ( You Mad? ) Celeb Weight Loss Before and Afters Plus How They Did It! Posted on Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:18  ( Skinny bitches abound... ) Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Richer than us all Posted on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:35  Pets can make a person's life richer, and in the case of these fortunate pets, tinheritor owners can return the favor long after they're gone. Here is a look at five of the richest pets in the world ( More under the cut... ) Source:http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wh o-are-the-richest-pets-in-the-world--.ht ml Just some regular girl with some friends. Posted on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:15 oh come on mods, we've the most pointless posts on here all the time!!!! this girl has been in the news recently so i don't see how 100 million celebrity closeup posts or 90s nostalgia (no offense to the people who posts them!!) are more of a"necessity".... thanks brenden<3!!!! sarah's flickr Was Oprah Bad For Literature? Posted on Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:01  Eleven years ago Jonathan Franzen caught hell for exurgent some ambivalence when Oprah Winfrey selected his novel The rightions for her TV book club. Franzen said that though Winfrey was “really smart” and “fighting the good fight” for the book commerce, she also “picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional [books] that I cringe, myself” at being selected. He added that he thought The rightions would prove “a tough book for that audience.” On hearing about these slights, Winfrey cancelled Franzen's scheduled appearance on her show. Realizing he'd been impolite (or maybe just realizing that his ingratitude would likely cost him some book sales) Franzen apologized to Winfrey, who subsequently chose Franzen's Freedom as one of the book club's ultimate choices ultimate year. ( Just an excuse for a book post, sincerely )  |
