Barbara Lippert's Critique: Making The B-List

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For weeks, David Letterman had been promoting Oprah’s Dec. 1 appearance on his show, her first return to his guest chair in 16 years, as the “TV event of the decade,” and a “Super Bowl of Love.” He was correct on both counts. Except that when it came right down to it, the actual back-and- forth was less like a Super Bowl and more like the meeting of two superpowers—as staged and coded as a Kyoto summit.

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