Friday, June 15, 2007

Planet Oprah

Oprah Winfrey is the world's most powerful celebrity, according to business magazine Forbes. (BBC)

What is the role of the world's most powerful celebrity? Other than you get a car and you get a car and you get a car and everybody gets a car?

I know she can catapult obscure authors into mega-sales and wealth. She can promote shameless evil drivel like The Secret and cause desperate dim-wits to put their lives in jeopardy.

But Oprah doesn't meet with world leaders, as least not in public. And I don't think it would be her style to do ANYTHING in private. So why is she a more powerful celebrity than, say, Bono?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

you answered your own question...because Bono doesn't give cars to everybody.

On an unrelated note, the other day I saw this guy at the bus stop who looked like a young Bob Dylan, including clothes and haircut (although this might have been what him look like Dylan)

If I had my camera, I would have taken a picture for you, just to see.

JAW fan

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Bob is not one of the world's most powerful celebrities, though. When was the last time he gave anybody a car?

cityofmushrooms said...

that car thing is gross