Oprah to Star in an HBO Movie About Henrietta Lacks, Black Farmer and Unsung Medical Hero

Oprah Winfrey, queen of Earth, is starring in an HBO movie about Henrietta Lacks, a black woman whose cells were controversially used to make major discoveries in medical research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—adapted from Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 New York Times bestseller—will play out from the perspective of…
I Asked Iyanla Vanzant to Fix My Life
Last month, when Iyanla Vanzant’s Fix My Life returned to television for its fifth season, it marked the second decade of her relationship with America as television’s tell-like-it-is auntie. For 20 years, she’s been offering life advice and therapeutic expertise, perhaps more enduring than any other self-help expert…
Former Yo-Yo Dieter Oprah Winfrey Bought a Piece of Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers has gotten a new backer who happens to be one of the biggest media names in the world: Oprah Winfrey. The OWN channel owner has purchased a 10 percent stake in the diet company and added her name to their board. Because counting calories is part of how you’re going to live your best life.
Mara Brock Akil to Woman TV Bosses: 'We Should All Be Feminists'
The organization Girls Inc. held its annual entertainment-industry luncheon Wednesday, bringing together some of the most powerful women in television for a host of inspirational speeches. And Mara Brock Akil, pioneer of this current era of women in television with Girlfriends and The Game, had some of the best…
Magnificent '80s Oprah Counsels a Woman Who Had Sex With a Ghost
Whatever intern runs the YouTube account of the OWN network has been hitting out of the park this week, as the channel now features several vintage clips of Oprah interviewing people who claim to have encountered ghosts. All of the clips are their own flavor of spectacular, but this clip from Halloween 1988 with an…
The Best of Billy Bob Thornton on Oprah's Master Class
As promised, Billy Bob Thornton's appearance on Oprah's Master Class was full of both incredible wisdom and incredible "Huh?"
Jerry Sandusky's Adopted Son Shares Awful Tales of Sexual Abuse
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night, former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky's adopted son Matt Sandusky detailed how he had been sexually abused by Jerry as a child. "90 percent of the time with Jerry Sandusky was everything a child would want," he said, explaining that the desire for a stable family…
Billy Bob Thornton's Master Class Looks Absolutely Riveting
Oprah's Master Class and Oprah's Lifeclass are probably the best shows on OWN. (They are almost identically named and their content is virtually the same but they are not the same.) Why? Because while Master Class and Lifeclass air episodes with visionaries like Maya Angelou sharing their thoughts about Living Your…
