"Keith Reemtsma was chairman of the department of surgery at Columbia University when I came to New York. He had served in Korea, and the lore is that he's the person behind the character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H. He made me chief resident and mentored me on how to be a leader. He said the hard part of leadership was keeping smart people from killing each other -- you had to make everyone feel special. People at my level were ambitious, vying for positions. He'd take your strength and find a place you could emphasize it, so it wouldn't seem as if you were competing directly with one another.
Rosie and Michelle Rounds kick off the OWN talk show in a Windy City hot spot
I'm on a jet winging from Los Angeles to Chicago.
It's now official - May 25 - because Oprah says so
Actor Hugh Jackman attempts to sail down to the stage on a zipline at an Oprah Winfrey taping in Australia.
"I needed to make myself happy before I could begin to have an equal relationship with another man," she says
Oprah Winfrey was headed into her "la-di-da years" -- her term for semiretirement -- when David Zaslav came along and wrecked her grand plan. The queen of TV talk had never met the CEO of Discovery Communications until he arrived at her Chicago office in April 2007 with a proposition. "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network," Zaslav said, pitching the notion that they create a cable TV network together. "I don't want your money," he told her. "I want you."
The actress, now casually dating Jason Toohey, says she's working to fill her life with love
Oprah Winfrey opened her talk show's 25th and final season Monday with the surprise of a lifetime for her audience, a favorite tactic for the media maven.
What do you think of Oprah's big surprise? HLN's Showbiz Tonight panel weighs in.
PEOPLE answers 5 burning questions about her big day
For 12 years, Andrea Herrera played it safe and stayed out of debt.
One of the small sorrows of my adult life is being married to a man who won't eat tongue. "It's delicious," I tell him, but he won't budge. "If you tasted it and didn't know what it was, you'd love it," I say. "The problem is all in your head!"
As the home makeover guru ends his run with Winfrey and sets out with his own show, he writes for PEOPLE about what he's learned
Oprah Winfrey creates a magical photo opp for one Twilight super-fan and her kids
Oprah Winfrey and the former mistress of her girls' school "met woman to woman" to resolve their differences
A jury will decide whether Oprah Winfrey defamed the former headmistress of her South African girls school when talking about an abuse scandal in 2007, a federal judge ruled.
Kitty Kelley, biographer of the rich and famous, is getting ready to release an unauthorized biography on talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.
He sings and tells Winfrey about his life, pre-Idol and after
It's hardly like Adam Lambert to be anything but upfront, so the recent mystery about his possible appearance with Oprah Winfrey on her show was a bit baffling.
Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday's "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey's Harpo Productions.
Lisa Ling, who has contributed to stories to 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' reacts to Oprah's decision to end her show in 2011.
A backpack with wires hanging out of it is found in a flowerbed outside Winfrey's studio
Scammers are hunted after using the TV queen's name in a fake cash contest
Looking in the mirror now, she asks herself, "How did I let this happen again?"
She will air a live episode from the Kennedy Center Opera House
Magician David Blaine's latest feat of endurance likely will last less than 17 minutes, but he's planning to do it in front of talk show queen Oprah Winfrey -- and her audience of millions
Why the two words, "I'm sorry" can be the most rewarding.
Oprah Winfrey, Chairman of Harpo Inc., ranks No. 8 on Fortune's 2006 list of 50 Most Powerful Women.
Leave it to Uncle Sam to spoil the party.
No wonder she's the reigning queen of daytime talk.
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