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Movies like ‘The Butler’ feel a lot like watching someone sing gospel at The Apollo — regardless of the execution, the only reaction the audience is really allowed to have is polite, respectful applause.

(No horn-toot-o.) Oprah threw her endorsement behind behind Barack Obama, and her ironclad popularity has taken a dip for doing so, according to Marjorie Valbrun over at The Root.

Yesterday was by far our little blog’s busiest day ever. Kinda amazing, since there wasn’t an update. I couldn’t figure out why. Stacia pointed out that Thomas Beatie, that man who happens to be with child, was on Oprah yesterday. Apparently, going into yesterday, we were one of the top sites for this guy via Read More

Is Toni Morrison the new arbiter of wisdom? According to the Big O, she is. We guess eloquence, poise, and a Pulitzer entitle you to intuit people’s mettle, rework the definitions of adjectives, and knight your favorite presidential candidate with the scepter of the wise. In just the kind of hype-raising speech* you’d expect as Read More