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Don’t look now, but David Blaine has performed another pointless stunt of human endurance/freakitude. Today on "Oprah," the Blainester held his breath for just over 17 minutes, breaking the world’s record and realizing what only he would call a lifelong dream. Will someone please tell me why he won’t just go away? Does anyone remember "David Blaine: Street Magic?" That brief moment when David Blaine’s cleverness outweighed the massiveness of his ego seems long, long gone now. Now, all that remains of the card-tricking, levitating weirdo is a bloated self-image and a freaky stare.
Funnyordie.com has a whole series of videos that lampoon Blaine with painful accuracy - they’re screamingly funny. But be warned, they are only safe for work if your work is okay with people screaming obscenities at the tops of their lungs.
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I honestly loathe reading snark by other writers that’s so good I envy them for having written it. This often happens with Salon.com TV critic Heather Havrilesky. But some of the prose in her piece about "Oprah’s Big Give" is just too good not to share:

Hell, most people would eat a plate of live maggots just for a chance to see Oprah face to face and tell her, as most mortals do when they meet Oprah, that they love her with the blinding heat of a thousand suns.Yes, this is a reality show, but instead of casting deluded, drunken youngsters who want their 15 minutes of fame, Oprah cast likable, sensitive, caring individuals who honestly hope to change the world. They’re also, not surprisingly, the kinds of people who weep openly or scream at the top of their lungs when they find out that it’s Oprah on the phone, telling […]

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We all know Oprah is capable of extreme generosity, but it was pretty clever of her to bring Zac and Vanessa into the mix for her "Building A Dream House" project. The house in question holds a family with three young kids, all of them enormous "High School Musical" fans, so Oprah got Zac and Vanessa to tape a special video message for the kids and donate their favorite props from the movies to help decorate their house.
The kids are overwhelmed with joy, and it’s so sweet I almost want to go kick a puppy just to balance things out. Or maybe I’ll just read about Paris Hilton fighting with Lindsay Lohan. Whatever.

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Thanks for enjoying our Oprah news, and now stay tuned for the Oprah
sports and weather, followed by "Access Oprah," "Oprah Tonight" and our
prime-time shows, including "Law & Order: Do What Oprah Says,"
"Survivor: Oprah Is One," and "24: That’s How Many Hours A Day Oprah
Gets Richer."
That’s right. Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications announced this week the planned 2009 launch of OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Ironically, the new channel will gain distribution by croaking the
Discovery Health Network, currently ignored in 68 million homes. The new channel adds to an empire that already includes the legendary syndicated TV show, O Magazine, a channel on XM satellite radio, TV movies on ABC, and on and on. She was also a player in the Oxygen network before NBC bought it, but apparently it had too many letters besides O. Oprah regulars like Dr. Phil and dog training guru Cesar Milian could […]

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As Step #862 in her O Masterplan for World Domination, Oprah Winfrey is opening a retail store in a renovated space across the street from her Harpo Studios complex on Chicago’s West Side. Local media was buzzing Wednesday with the news, and one local reporter will even take you on a video tour of the as-yet-bare 4,500-square-foot location.
Word is the store will be selling such Oprahcentric items as branded baby gear, workout clothes and an iPod cover, not to mention the "Oprah signature chrome keyring," all currently available from Oprah’s online Boutique. Ms. Winfrey is one of the most frustating stars of our time from those of us who prefer to love ‘em or hate ‘em - she requires both, changing from minute to minute. I mean, you love the book club, and her serious reading choices, and then she’s out there pimping loathsome, pernicious crap like "The Secret." Love […]

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As Step #862 in her O Masterplan for World Domination, Oprah Winfrey is opening a retail store in a renovated space across the street from her Harpo Studios complex on Chicago’s West Side. Local media was buzzing Wednesday with the news, and one local reporter will even take you on a video tour of the as-yet-bare 4,500-square-foot location. It gives us a lot to think about.
Word is the store will be selling such Oprahcentric items as branded
baby gear, workout clothes and an iPod cover, not to mention the "Oprah
signature chrome keyring," all currently available from Oprah’s online Boutique.
Ms. Winfrey is one of the most frustating stars of our time from those
of us who prefer to love ‘em or hate ‘em - she requires both, changing
from minute to minute. I mean, you love the book club, and her serious
reading choices, and then she’s out there pimping loathsome, pernicious
crap like "The
Secret." Love […]

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