If you're excited -- or disgusted -- by Kitty Kelley's new unauthorized bio of Oprah Winfrey, here's your chance to hear her discuss it. Kelley is scheduled to appear at the Ellicott City Barnes & Noble, 4300 Montgomery Road, this evening from 7 to 9 p.m.
Some fans of the talk show superstar are angry about Kelley's "Oprah." And today on WJZ, Richard Sher, who co-hosted a Baltimore talk show with Winfrey early in her career, took issue with a racially charged anecdote in the book. While interviewing Kelley, Sher set the record straight on a conversation that involved Winfrey and chicken magnate Frank Perdue, as Sun TV blogger David Zurawik notes. An excerpt from the blog: [H]ere's how Sher described what Perdue is quoted as saying in the book versus what he actually said:
And he [Perdue] supposedly said, according to everyone who saw this, "I know I look like a chicken, but did anyone ever tell you that you look like a gorilla?" ...But that's not what happened. I was there.