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Another Oprah boo-boo

by Connie Veneracion on March 5, 2008

After hailing James Frey’s fake memoir, it appears that Oprah Winfrey’s magazine also gave the thumbs up to Love and Consequences although the endorsement came before the memoir’s author publicly admitted that the whole story’s a fake.
Too late to include in tomorrow’s column.

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The James Frey scam

by Connie Veneracion on March 5, 2008

The Smoking Gun blew the lid on James Frey’s memoir, “A Million Little Pieces”.
Transcript from Oprah where Frey’s publisher admitted that no background check was made on his story.
Frey’s bio in Wikipedia.
Bio of Nan Talese, Frey’s publisher, in Wikipedia.

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