Oprah_ A Biography - Kitty Kelley [248]
TV/DVDS: The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD set); The Oprah Winfrey Show, WLS-TV Chicago, “Second Anniversary,” aired Jan. 2, 1986 (viewed at www.museum.tv); The Barbara Walters Special, ABC, aired Apr. 11, 1988 (viewed at The Paley Center for Media, New York); Scared Silent, PBS, NBC, and CBS, aired Sept. 4, 1992, and ABC, aired Sept. 6, 1992 (viewed at www.museum.tv).
INTERVIEWS: Bill Zwecker, Oct. 11, 2007; Ed Kosowski, Jan. 18, 2008.
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RECORDS: Transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech to American Women’s Economic Development Corporation conference, New York City, Feb. 25, 1989; death certificates, Patricia Lloyd (died Feb. 18 or 19, 2003, New Berlin, Wisc.) and Jeffrey Lee (died Dec. 22, 1989, Milwaukee, Wisc.), Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services; Vernon Winfrey, with Craig Marberry, sample pages for Things Unspoken: A Memoir by Oprah’s Father, 2007; verification of birth facts and verification of death facts, Vincent Miquelle Lee (born Feb. 8, 1969, and died Mar. 16, 1969, Nashville, Tenn.), Tennessee Department of Health, Office of Vital Records; transcript, interview of Oprah Winfrey by Diane Sawyer, 20/20, ABC, Oct. 25, 1998.
BOOKS: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Finding Oprah’s Roots (Crown Publishers, 2007); Merrell Noden, People Profiles: Oprah Winfrey (Time Life, 1999); Katharine Carr Esters, Jay Bird Creek and My Recollections: A Memoir (Solid Earth, 2005); Norman King, Everybody Loves Oprah (Bill Adler Books, 1987); Vince Staten, Do Bald Men Get Half-Price Haircuts? (Touchstone, 2001); Bill Adler, ed., The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Citadel Press, 1997).
ARTICLES: Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,” Woman’s Day, Oct. 1, 1986; Laura B. Randolph, “Oprah Opens Up About Her Weight, Her Wedding, and Why She Withheld the Book,” Ebony, Oct. 1993; Leslie Rubenstein, “Oprah! Thriving on Faith,” McCall’s, Aug. 1987; “Chicago’s Grand New Oprah,” Newsweek, Dec. 31, 1984; Kathleen Fury, “Oprah! Why She’s Got America Talking,” TV Guide, Mar. 5, 1988; Gretchen Reynolds, “Oprah, a One-Woman Show,” Options, May 1994; Edna Gundersen, “Wildest Dreams Do Come True,” USA Today, May 15, 1997; Adam Richman, “Oprah,” People Weekly, Jan. 12, 1987; Patricia King, “Move Over, Phil Donahue—Here Comes Oprah,” Family Circle, Oct. 21, 1986; Jim Nelson and Barbara Sternig, “Talk Show Star’s Wild and Wicked Childhood—Sister Reveals the Shocking Truth at Last,” National Enquirer, Mar. 20, 1990; Marilyn Johnson, “Oprah Between the Covers,” Life, Sept. 1997; Bob Michals, “The Uncle Oprah Accuses of Sexually Abusing Her,” Globe, Sept. 8, 1992; Jonathan Van Meter, “Looking for Oprah,” The Oxford American, Apr./May 1999; “Living Legend Barbra Streisand,” www.oprah.com, Sept. 24, 2009; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; Stephanie Mansfield, “And Now Heeeeeeere’s Oprah,” Washington Post, Oct. 21, 1986; Lee Winfrey, “Talking Her Way to TV Stardom,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 7, 1986; “Thursday Rites Set for Zelma Winfrey, Oprah’s Stepmother,” Nashville Banner, Nov. 5, 1996; Tony Brown, “Even Without Scissors, Elder Winfrey a Cutup,” Newhouse News Service, Feb. 12, 2007; Susan Goldfarb, “I Drove the Devil Out of Oprah Winfrey—Says Her Dad,” Globe, Mar. 3, 1987; Joanna Molloy, “Dad’s Book Is No Oprah Pick,” New York Daily News, May 22, 2007; LaTonya Taylor, “The Church of O,” Christianity Today, Apr. 1, 2002; Jill Nelson, “The Man Who Saved Oprah Winfrey,” Washington Post Magazine, Dec.