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11 May 2009, 2:29 pm

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Jenny McCarthy inks deal with Winfrey's Harpo
Mon May 4, 2009 11:26am EDT

By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jenny McCarthy is poised to become the next star in Oprah Winfrey's media empire.

McCarthy has inked a multi-year deal with Winfrey's Harpo Prods. to develop projects on different platforms, including a syndicated talk show that the actress/author would host.

The first collaboration under the pact is a blog by McCarthy on Oprah.com, which launched Friday. Like other Winfrey proteges-turned-TV moguls, among them Rachael Ray and Dr. Phil, McCarthy has been a frequent guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

McCarthy talked to the chat queen about her struggles with her son's autism in conjunction with the publication of her best-selling books "Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism" and "Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds." McCarthy also has participated twice in Winfrey's Friday Live panels, most recently this past Friday.

A former Playboy model, McCarthy burst into the TV scene as the host of MTV's dating show "Singled Out," a job that jump-started her acting career. She later segued into writing with a string of best-selling books and became an activist on behalf of the search for a cure for autism.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/televisi ... RD20090504

this is bad... real bad... :evil:

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11 May 2009, 3:13 pm

That b***h really knows how to get her way.

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11 May 2009, 4:11 pm

Goddammit. I just KNOW this kind of thing's gonna be advertised on the magazines of my workplace.

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11 May 2009, 4:20 pm

The real villian here is Oprah. She brings crackpot after crackpot to the forefront and has caused so much pain, suffering and death to the public with her support of pseudo-science that I wish she could be brought up on some kind of criminal charges.
She is the reason there needs to be an equivalent to the RICO Act for scam artists. She can't be prosecuted for any individual thing, but if we look at everything she has done over the years, it is down right criminal.

<insert usual Jenny McCarthy should burn in hell stuff here>

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11 May 2009, 5:13 pm

I never liked Jenny McCarthy - I always thought she was an obnoxious bimbo before she even got into the anti-vaccination nonsense. A lot of guys found her attractive but I never did.

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11 May 2009, 7:10 pm

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A former Playboy model, McCarthy burst into the TV scene

You don't say! :roll:

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11 May 2009, 7:26 pm

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Read the history of Oprah's biggest fraud-spawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_McGraw

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12 May 2009, 1:04 am

Jenny McCarthy's "vaccination gave my son an ASD" line might suffer less in the credibility department if she could make it through a five minute conversation without stimming like crazy, or without the obviously gauche non-verbal expression that characterizes her pervasively.

I wonder how she overlooks the obviously indicative nature of her intense, preoccupying all-encompassing interest in ASD subsequent to her son's diagnosis. She herself has earlier detected her own deficits in non-verbal expression (she asserted as much in an interview years before she even had a child).

As for this Jim chap she dates being an "autism whisperer" (as Jenny refers to him), I find this is very likely to be ironically accurate, in the instance that he tends to whisper a lot.

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12 May 2009, 1:15 pm

Jim Carey hasn't been funny in many years, either.

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12 May 2009, 2:38 pm

MattShizzle wrote:

Jim Carey hasn't been funny in many years, either.

I would agree, however I did enjoy Yes Man. But I don't think that fact owes anything to Jim Carey specifically. I am a big Zooey Deschanel fan, though. And that guy from Flight of the Concords was very funny it the movie as well. In short, it wasn't just a rehash of Liar Liar, as I thought it would be.

As for his claims to being an "autism whisperer," I can say that if I met him, his antics would frighten and confuse me.

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12 May 2009, 3:35 pm

I really don't think he was funny much after he was on In Living Color. A few of his early movies were, but then his characters all grew tiresome - pretty much all him acting like an idiot (much like Adam Sandler, who I don't find funny at all except a few early SNL things and the song "Ode to my Car.")

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12 May 2009, 4:43 pm

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And that guy from Flight of the Concords was very funny it the movie as well.

Rhys Darby perhaps?

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12 May 2009, 4:48 pm

pandd wrote:

drowbot0181 wrote:

And that guy from Flight of the Concords was very funny it the movie as well.

Rhys Darby perhaps?

Yes, that's him.

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12 May 2009, 5:36 pm

Now Oprah's getting that quack Dr Oz his own show, too.

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13 May 2009, 8:15 am

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Now Oprah's getting that quack Dr Oz his own show, too.

WTF?? I heard on a commercial that he was doing his final appearance on Oprah and I was quite happy. But now this... The man has his nurses wave their hands over his patients and do magic woo-woo crap DURING SURGERY!! !
I will concede, on the authority of Dr. Steven Novella and the amazing James Randi that he IS a fine surgeon... but all the woo-woo pseudo-science crap he pushes completely negates that.

Damn him...damn her... grrrr

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14 May 2009, 5:34 pm

*Headdesk headdesk headdesk*

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