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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark's public schools has drawn praise, but also questions about its timing: He'll announce the gift on Oprah Friday, the same day as the premiere of a new film that portrays the young billionaire in a negative light.

You can't buy your way out of unhappiness, Julia Roberts. While Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love tells readers that it's better to look within for spiritual succor, the movie's maker, Sony Pictures, is flatly contradicting her by unleashing a tsunami of merchandise that suggests we find...

Move over Oprah. Fox News host Glenn Beck has turned into a literary tastemaker -- and his book picks are yielding staggering sales figures for the respective authors.

Oprah Winfrey is the most powerful celebrity in America. So says Forbes whicH looks at entertainers, athletes, models, spoRts figures, and TV personality based on "a measure of entertainment-related earnings and media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online).

Content Provided by Forbes Oprah Winfrey takes back her crown while pop chart phenomenon Lady Gaga catapults to No. 4 on this year's Celebrity 100. LOS ANGELES -- Pants-less pop stars, late-night warriors and sexy vampires spiced up the fame game last year, with Lady Gaga, Conan O'Brien and...

When Clark Gable famously took off his shirt in the 1934 film, It Happened One Night, to reveal a bare chest, sales of undershirts reportedly dropped. Gable's apparent fashion statement proved the power of celebrity. Ever since, trends inspired by the rich and famous have shaped our lifestyles. If...

These days, reaching your 10th anniversary in business is a big deal (trust me, my law firm just turned 10). Most companies celebrate by handing out pens, chocolates or other trinkets to their employees. But O, the Oprah Magazine, isn't most companies. It's a media powerhouse run by one of the most...

You better bet the billing department of whatever hospital Suze Orman checked into for an emergency appendectomy will be careful about the bills it sends along to the personal finance guru, lest it get raked over the coals on Suzy'e next Oprah visit. Orman apparently fell ill in Chicago last...

Scam warnings about the acai berry have been coming fast and furious for years now, yet every day new products appear, and existing products already on watch lists keep on rolling out in mail order packages, claiming to be touted by Oprah and charging unwitting buyers' credit cards. Why are people...

Erica Jong, the poet and author of Fear of Flying, believes she may have given Hearst Corp. the idea to start a magazine for Oprah Winfrey. But the editor whose idea it really was has a different recollection.