Tuesday, November 25, 2008

$7 million baby


She won't be Vice President but Sarah Palin stands to cash in on her tilt for high office, with multi-million contracts for books and talk shows appearances expected to come her way.
Literary agents were queuing up to sign Palin to a book deal that could earn her up to $US7 million, The Times reported.

Anything Oprah touch


Oprah Winfrey can get people to read Tolstoy, sell millions of magazines and turn a mail-order canvas bag into a hot item just by naming it one of her favorite things. Here is some people who benefited:
1. Dr Phil--Life strategist and psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw became a familiar face when he became the human behavior expert on the Oprah Winfrey
2. Rachel Ray---is a television personality and author. She hosts the syndicated talk/lifestyle program Rachael Ray and two Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals and Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels. In late 2005 Ray signed a deal with Oprah Winfrey and King World Productions to host a syndicated daytime TV talk show.[11] The show, Rachael Ray, premiered on September 18, 2006. Recurrent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show were used to fuel the launch,

3. Barack Obama---Tim Moore and Craig Garthwaite, second and third year economics graduate students respectively, released a study last week that estimated media mogul Oprah Winfrey's endorsement of Barack Obama resulted in more than one million votes for Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries this past year.

Hannity & Colmes


Speaking of American politics, my favorite guys on cable TV are splitting. Alan Colmes (left) of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes is leaving his right-wing other half behind after 12 years.
"Although it's bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I'm proud that both [Sean Hannity] and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years, " Colmes said in a statement on his website in announcing his departure from the hotbed of political contention that marked their cable news staple.