Oprah Winfrey’s quarter-century run on daytime TV may be accompanied by a TV film dramatizing her life.
Producer Larry Thompson said Monday the planned two- or four-hour Winfrey film will be based on Kitty Kelley’s tell-all biography. Thompson says he has optioned it for six figures.
The TV project is expected to air in September 2011, which would coincide with the end of Winfrey’s wildly successful weekday talk show.
Kim Cattrall was named a fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in northwest England on Monday in recognition of her contribution to the arts.
The 53-year-old “Sex and the City” star was born in Liverpool but was raised mostly in Canada.
She told hundreds of graduating students packed into Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral that the honor was “a dream come true.”
Barbara Walters says she is “fully recovered” just two months after open heart surgery.
Walters, 80, made her first TV appearance Monday since the procedure in May to replace a faulty valve. She checked in with her fellow panelists on ABC’s “The View.”
Walters said from her Manhattan apartment that she was never in serious discomfort from the surgery.
Carlos Santana is smooth: The guitar great has gotten engaged after proposing onstage to his girlfriend, drummer Cindy Blackman.
The proposal came during a tour stop Friday in Tinley Park, Ill., outside Chicago. His representatives say he popped the question four songs into the concert after a Blackman drum solo.
She said yes, and they sealed it with a kiss, met with cheers from the crowd.
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