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Oprah Winfrey says it 'feels right' to end show

Updated: 11/20/09 6:36 PM
CHICAGO — Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience today that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led her to her decision.

The holiday film season is doling out gifts for everyone

Updated: 11/20/09 8:59 AM
For young to old, funny to serious, our holiday movie guide is stuffed with gifts for all sorts. Here’s a list of movies, grouped by genre, that will be released over the next two months.

Jeff Simon: Unfortunately, some TV types get swept away

Updated: 11/20/09 9:09 AM
My vote is “no.” I don’t like any of it. What the November Sweeps have so far meant all over the tube is a lot of good-byes. In the case of the announced endings of “Dollhouse,” “Hank,” and “Eastwick,” let us sing “hallelujah” in response. (And now turn to Page 28 in your TV Guide for the Benediction.)

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'An Education': Mulligan, Molina add intellect to coming-of-age film

Updated: 11/20/09 8:50 AM
He seems like deliverance itself on a rainy day. There she is in her English school uniform, getting soaked to the skin. He slowly pulls up in a plush-looking maroon car of a sort she’s never seen before. “It’s a Bristol,” he says. There were “not very many of them made,” he explains.

Hill family celebrates son’s life with concert

Updated: 11/20/09 8:52 AM
In September, after a car crash claimed the life of 7-year-old Asa Hill, the boy’s parents turned their sorrow into celebration.

Mac’s Village Brewhaus: A good time is brewing

Updated: 11/20/09 8:56 AM
It was a frosty Thursday when Mike and I drove into the Village of Orchard Park to Mac’s Village Brewhaus. Lisa (a bubbly blond) greeted us right away and we ordered a pitcher of Labatt Blue Light, a double of Jamison on the rocks and a tall glass of Southern Comfort and Diet Coke for $20. Lisa asked us if we wanted glasses or plastic cups and we opted for glasses.

Sports on the Air: NFL Network has uneven game lineup

Updated: 11/20/09 10:39 PM
The NFL Network schedule of games isn't exactly an advertisement for pressuring Time Warner to carry the channel. The Thanksgiving night matchup between the New York Giants and Denver Broncos is decent but not as attractive as it was a few weeks ago. Then it is the Bills-Jets in Toronto on Dec. 3 and the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers at the hopeless Cleveland Browns on Dec. 10.

'The Blind Side': Inspiring true story follows homeless boy out of poverty

Updated: 11/20/09 8:49 AM
Spike Lee used “Do the Right Thing” for the title of his racially charged 1989 film. But change it to the past tense — “Did the Right Thing” — and it would apply to nearly every character in director John Lee Hancock’s book-based true story “The Blind Side.”

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Jeff Simon: Will Palin talk the talk?

“Should I be worried?” asked Oprah Winfrey of Sarah Palin. It was her final question. In truth, it was the only question I wanted an answer to –the only reason I watched the full hour “Oprah Winfrey Show” launch of Sarah Palin’s book tour on behalf of her memoir, “Going Rogue” (HarperCollins, 432 pages, $28.99).

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