@unclevanya: Thank you. The woman is not retiring. Instead of being on one hour a day and distributing one magazine a month, she will now have an entire 24-hour cable channel on which to proselytize.
@unclevanya: I KNOW. I keep saying this one posts about her "quitting her show". She's only quitting her NETWORK show, even insiders say she will likely have a very similar show on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
I think people just think it makes a good story and are ignoring the obvious.
I totally bit Oprah's style and whenever I run into friends or they call me on the phone, I'll be like, "OH MY GOD, IT'S JAAAAAAAANEE DOOOOOOOOOOEEEE! AND JOOOOOHNNN SMIIIIIIIITH!!"
Awesome compilation!
Though, wifers and I were watching the Palin episode last night and I noted how her intro was not anything like above.. it was the most anticlimactic intro she's ever done save for the James Frey schooling...
Oh man, my super secret daydream of one day doing something really remarkable and getting invited on Oprah and introduced in that long, drawn-out-vowels way while a bunch of well-dressed middle class Americans smile and clap is fading away. This hurts.
@yvanehtnioj: I personally daydream of Oprah interrupting me during my story of how I lost my prosthetic limb in a fire that erupted at the orphanage I grew up in to tell the audience about that one time her dog Gracie started a fire and how darned adorable it was.
Given that I was just Googling Daniel Day-Lewis pictures last night, I am in love with AndBegorrah's comment. Heh, if only I could Google him in person (whatever that means). #danieldaylewis#commenterquips
To be fair, Arthur Miller, despite his long, distinguished career, was asked to the very end of his life about the four years he was married to Marilyn Monroe.
I don't think the issue is entirely gender. The less famous person is always assumed to be suffering under the more famous person's fame. Think Danny Moder, Ryan Phillipe. I think they focus on it even more when its the woman who is more famous because men are suppose to be the main breadwinner in a lot of people's minds.
One thing that stood out to me is that idea that when a woman has children, they have to step aside a little and put other people's needs first. I think that's true of both people when they become parents but we so rarely expect men to really put their families first.
It's because we WANT to be needed, second class citizens, silly! We're simply completely unfulfilled unless we pass humans out our bodies and give over our entire lives to tending to their needs!
Wow, Miller's quote really resonates with me, except I haven't found a healthy release. Here's hoping.
In regard to the article, while I think the closing arguments are valid, it's often hard to ignore a person's family if they themselves are/were famous. I honestly think this would happen to a degree with a man. I think the framing has more to do with her being "less" famous than anything else.
@Penny: This is often true. My parents have public-interaction-type jobs in a (relatively) small city, so often people get excited when they meet me and say, "You're YOURDAD's daughter!" or "YOURMOM is your MOM? Wow, that's cool!" I also briefly "dated" a dude who was like, Mr. SocialClub at his college, and people would get really excited about my relation to him, too.
I do cool shit all on my own, you guys! I'm cool too, independent of who I'm related to/dating/friends with!
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I think people just think it makes a good story and are ignoring the obvious.
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Though, wifers and I were watching the Palin episode last night and I noted how her intro was not anything like above.. it was the most anticlimactic intro she's ever done save for the James Frey schooling...
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@andBegorrah: Here you are, my dear: #commenterquips
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One thing that stood out to me is that idea that when a woman has children, they have to step aside a little and put other people's needs first. I think that's true of both people when they become parents but we so rarely expect men to really put their families first.
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In regard to the article, while I think the closing arguments are valid, it's often hard to ignore a person's family if they themselves are/were famous. I honestly think this would happen to a degree with a man. I think the framing has more to do with her being "less" famous than anything else.
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I do cool shit all on my own, you guys! I'm cool too, independent of who I'm related to/dating/friends with!