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Dr. Joyce Brothers
Equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge of boxing, a young Joyce Brothers competed on The {dollar}64,000 Question and became the first woman to win the top prize money. That triumphant debut in 1955 was the initial step toward a career as a media pioneer. Through her own advice programs and perennial appearances on talk shows—as well as episodic television—Brothers became one of the most well-known figures of the 20th century. For more than four decades, viewers could count on her authoritative, calm response to almost any issue, from marital and financial woes to the Space Shuttle disaster. In Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology, Kathleen Collins explores how a clever businesswoman provided a mass-scale service for a never-ending demand: helping viewers understand themselves. Collins explains how Brothers' longevity on television was in large part afforded by her symbiotic relationship with the medium. She played other roles in addition to–and interdependent on–that of media psychologist. Her numerous appearances on variety shows, sitcoms, and dramas kept her on the screen and in the public eye, creating both a persona as celebrity professional as well as professional celebrity. This portrait of Brothers' multi-layered career also provides a means by which to observe U.S. cultural history, addressing cultural preoccupations with television and self-help obsessed audiences looking for guidance in reality TV. Drawing on primary sources from Brothers' personal papers and published interviews—as well as interviews the author conducted with several of Joyce's former colleagues and her daughter, Lisa Arbisser—Collins provides an engaging, informative, and thought provoking look at this iconic figure.
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Who is Oprah Winfrey?
\"The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world. We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the \"Queen of Talk\" wasn't always so fortunate. She suffered through a rough childhood and went on to use her personal struggles as motivation. Oprah's kindness, resilience, and determination are just some of the many reasons why her viewers--and people all around the world--love her. The richest African American person of the twentieth century, Oprah is often described as the most influential woman in the world.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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MoneyWatch Report
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Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers's \"life was a dramatic roller-coaster of triumphant highs and devastating lows: the suicide of her husband, her feud with Johnny Carson, her estrangement from her daughter, her many plastic surgeries, her ferocious ambition, and her massive insecurities. But Rivers's career was also ... significant in American cultural history, breaking down barriers for her gender and pushing the boundaries of truth-telling for women in public life. [This] biography ... delves into the inner workings of a woman who both reflected and redefined the world around her\"--Amazon.com.
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Race on the Range
After two successful decades in Mexican cinema and theater, del Río returned to Hollywood in the 1960s to star as an Indian woman in two westerns:Flaming Star(1960, Don Siegel), with Elvis Presley, and John Ford’sCheyenne Autumn(1964).¹ Outside of a few appearances on American television, del Río had been out of American public life for more than a decade, and she was no longer considered a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, she did not enjoy the same kind of celebrity she had savored thirty years earlier.² Close to sixty when she portrayed the Indian squaw Neddy Barton in
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Katie Couric : groundbreaking TV journalist
A biography of the television journalist, Katie Couric.
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Bossypants
From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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Bossypants
From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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