A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation. Lee Siegel Read Quote
Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations. Lee Siegel Read Quote
Every ‘Oprah Winfrey Show’ has about it the aura of Oprah’s own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion’s founder. Above the testimony of Oprah’s guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah’s experience. Lee Siegel Read Quote
In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution. Lee Siegel Read Quote
The sitcom’s traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. Lee Siegel Read Quote
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living – or a sort of living – writing negative book reviews. Lee Siegel Read Quote
Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self. Lee Siegel Read Quote
I love the idea of the amateur – that’s what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet’s doing is professionalizing everyone’s amateuristic impulses. Lee Siegel Read Quote
Hotel Rwanda’ is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences. Lee Siegel Read Quote
