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OPRAH'S LEAVING ALL HAIL THE ANTI-OPRAH
Anderson Cooper will be starting a syndicated daytime talk show and will be replacing the exiting Oprah Winfrey in many markets across the USA.
You can't really get more un-Oprah than Anderson Cooper, let's look at the stats.
Background:
Oprah Winfrey, female, poor working class, African American, from Mississippi, who went to Tennessee State University on a scholarship while working in local radio.
Anderson Cooper, male, rich and privileged (a Vanderbilt), ultra-white (even his hair), from New York City who went to Yale University.
Personality:
Oprah Winfrey presents herself as warm, sensitive, friendly and hyper enthusiastic about things she likes.
Anderson Cooper comes across as cold, aloof, un-emotional, almost robotic.
Weight:
Oprah Winfrey has struggled with her weight for decades and in public.
Anderson Cooper looks like he was born thin.
Career:
Oprah Winfrey, started in local radio, and got a spot hosting a local talk show and took it from the bottom of the ratings to the top of the ratings and then national success in syndication and a media empire which includes magazines and her own cable network.
Anderson Cooper, went into journalism over a career with the CIA, and became a major figure by hosting a prime-time show on what was then the biggest cable news network in the country and watched the ratings for his show, its network, and the importance of both dwindle against the competition.
The only thing they appear to have in common is that both are subject to speculations about their personal lives. Personally, I don't give a rodent's left butt-cheek about the private lives of either.
So the question is, after watching Oprah for decades will they watch her exact opposite?
IMAGINE IMAGINES WRITERS WORKING IN A NEW-OLD WAY
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment Company is starting what they believe is a radical new experiment that they hope will evolve the creative process.
They're calling it a special "Writer's Lab" and in it
writers will be brought together for a year, put on salary and given other financial incentives to create movies and television shows together.
Now maybe it's just me, but I don't think this is all that radical.
Back in the golden age of Hollywood writers would be brought in from all over the world, put on a generous weekly salary for the time, put in offices, and then put to work on creating scripts for the studio. There would also be extra money to be made rewriting each others scripts, and if two or more worked together to create a script they didn't have to split a single pay-check, because they were both on salary.
Sounds to me like a bit of history repeating.
AND NOW, A PALATE CLEANSER
OPRAH'S LEAVING ALL HAIL THE ANTI-OPRAH
Anderson Cooper will be starting a syndicated daytime talk show and will be replacing the exiting Oprah Winfrey in many markets across the USA.
You can't really get more un-Oprah than Anderson Cooper, let's look at the stats.
Background:
Oprah Winfrey, female, poor working class, African American, from Mississippi, who went to Tennessee State University on a scholarship while working in local radio.
Anderson Cooper, male, rich and privileged (a Vanderbilt), ultra-white (even his hair), from New York City who went to Yale University.
Personality:
Oprah Winfrey presents herself as warm, sensitive, friendly and hyper enthusiastic about things she likes.
Anderson Cooper comes across as cold, aloof, un-emotional, almost robotic.
Weight:
Oprah Winfrey has struggled with her weight for decades and in public.
Anderson Cooper looks like he was born thin.
Career:
Oprah Winfrey, started in local radio, and got a spot hosting a local talk show and took it from the bottom of the ratings to the top of the ratings and then national success in syndication and a media empire which includes magazines and her own cable network.
Anderson Cooper, went into journalism over a career with the CIA, and became a major figure by hosting a prime-time show on what was then the biggest cable news network in the country and watched the ratings for his show, its network, and the importance of both dwindle against the competition.
The only thing they appear to have in common is that both are subject to speculations about their personal lives. Personally, I don't give a rodent's left butt-cheek about the private lives of either.
So the question is, after watching Oprah for decades will they watch her exact opposite?
IMAGINE IMAGINES WRITERS WORKING IN A NEW-OLD WAY
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment Company is starting what they believe is a radical new experiment that they hope will evolve the creative process.
They're calling it a special "Writer's Lab" and in it
writers will be brought together for a year, put on salary and given other financial incentives to create movies and television shows together.Now maybe it's just me, but I don't think this is all that radical.
Back in the golden age of Hollywood writers would be brought in from all over the world, put on a generous weekly salary for the time, put in offices, and then put to work on creating scripts for the studio. There would also be extra money to be made rewriting each others scripts, and if two or more worked together to create a script they didn't have to split a single pay-check, because they were both on salary.
Sounds to me like a bit of history repeating.
AND NOW, A PALATE CLEANSER
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