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The Anti-Oprah
You were voted “Guiltiest Pleasure” by the viewers of Logo. What’s one of your own guiltiest pleasures other than eating a cold pork chop while watching Kathy Griffin on Bravo?
Do you live under my bed? I mean you’ve got it. You forgot while I’m eating the cold pork chop I’m wearing my messy throw-up robe. I love watching cheap thrills on TV. As far as I’m concerned I’m a cheap thrill on TV.
Where do you find the time to write your Ritz Harper books? Or do you really write them?
“I’m flying the flag for me and Demi Moore and Vanessa Williams and Brooke Shields. We are all such wonderfully dynamic, attractive, MILFy women.”
I speak into a tape recorder and then I have writing partners. I drop off the tapes at a front desk. It’s just another example of finding the right people. There comes a time when you’ve just got to let go and let people.
That’s paraphrasing a 12-Step platitude: Let Go and Let God.
I know. But I don’t want to offend anybody who is an atheist.
But you’re not a 12-Stepper. You gave up cocaine but you still drink.
I love a drink. Drinking was never my problem. As long as we’re being candid, I did enjoy cocaine. I enjoyed it to the point of it being problematic. No judgments on anybody who still indulges.
But at some point you do need to sleep and to eat.
Yes, you do need to sleep but I did manage to maintain a very chunky body. Here’s the truth. At the time of stopping doing cocaine, I wanted a different life. I more than had to clean up my cocaine use; I had to clean up some friendships too. But that’s all part of it. This show is coming at the right time in my life. I have never felt better. I have never looked better. I really do feel like my life is just beginning. I’m flying the flag for me and Demi Moore and Vanessa Williams and Brooke Shields. We are all such wonderfully dynamic, attractive, MILF-y women.
I’m too white and gay to understand that term.
You know, MILF: Mothers I’d Like to Fuck. To me, if you’re 45 and there’s not a 25 year old who wants to do you, then you need to work on yourself.
Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain, will be published by St. Martin's Press.
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Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain will be published by St. Martins Press.
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Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain will be published by St. Martins Press.
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Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain will be published by St. Martins Press.
If you need to tell people you are a MILF, you probably aren't one. Yuck.
I admit - I read the whole article. Wendy Williams is the type of person you love to hate. She is an embarrassing train wreck. Yet, I read the whole article. And, if I'm home I might watch the show.
I read the whole thing and started envisioning myself eating a cold chicken breast in my stained pink robe watching her show.
"She is an embarrassing train wreck." We have Palin for that already. We don't need a second one. Williams and Palin do harm to the image of women in our society. We need bright women on television -- oh, like Oprah.
What isn't bright about Wendy Williams? Wendy's self-aware; you're confusing her unapologetic outrageousness for idiocy. If you think she isn't clued-in on how vastly different from Oprah she is, your comprehension is the problem.
Williams doesn't bother trying to hide who she is, and believe it or not she's got a better handle on black America than Oprah does. Just because she offends your sensibilities doesn't mean she isn't insightful or that she isn't compelling.
Generalizing The Enemies of Feminism does just as much damage to the image of women as women like Palin. You may want to re-read the Iman question before you spit all over Williams again.
Williams represents the decline and fall of civilization. I have great respect for Oprah so when Williams thinks she is like Oprah because they both like lemon-drop martinis, she is big-time missing the irony of how dissimilar they are. It's a headline-maker to compare the two women; however one is class; the other is trash.
( Williams responded to the press coverage of Michael Jackson's death
as perhaps excessive ).
The hyper sensitive reaction to the media coverage of Jackson's death,
and the comparison some make to the attention Elvis' death garnered,
is a lousy barometer.
When Elvis died in the 1970's there were three
major channels that shut down after midnight.
Remember television channels signing off with the National Anthem,
followed by the appearance of the color bars ?
We all know if Elvis had died in this current 24/7 culture his death
would have been all over the cable networks 'round the clock.
Perhaps Nancy Grace could have turned Elvis' death into what might
be perceived as a mini-series, similar to what some might perceive to
be a mini-series about Caylee Anthony, with all the flashing
"Breaking News," and obnoxious scroll images.
Larry King would have a year of material to exploit Elvis' death.
If you want to see how untalented this clown is, search "Wendy Williams Omarossa" and watch a washed-up reality show guest who hasn't been famous in 5 years destroy Wendy Williams at her own game.
I am so sorry to be so out of the loop but what is a MILF?
It means a Mother I'd Like to Fuckin' throw up on.
that's funny....I thought she was a second rate looking Ru Paul....there are lots of gorgeous moms out there who I would ahhh, well, you know.....but SHE AIN'T ONE OF EM.....good lord no....same for Ru Paul for that matter. MILF? Uhhhhhhh......back to the drawing board, Wendy.
She made some incredibly disparaging remarks regarding NYC Transit Workers and their Union during their contract struggles with the infamous MTA. We didn't forget that. So if they want to bring that skank out in the open, fine. Transit Workers won't be watching.
I have been in her company ( I didn't even know who she was) and I felt as if she was sucking all the air out of the room, She has an exhausting personality and she is a bit of an attention wh**re
MILF...Uh, don't know about that one. Plus how can you go around calling yourself a MILF, when..."Williams suffered from a weight problem and had liposuction and breast implants surgery, augmenting her breasts from an A cup to a DD cup. "
Source=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Williams_(radio_host)
From an A cup to a DD cup? really! Think about how big she is....now take away the breasts....Ewwwww...
you guys calm down. don't you see this is all entertainment? why the f*k are you reading anything about my wendy anyway?you go girl.... saffonda b cox
Uh . . . as a guy who likes MILFs every bit as much as the next guy, I have to say that breast implants, Botox injections, liposuction, wigs, false eyelashes, and the like, add up not to a MILF but rather to some kind of anti-MILF from whom most males with even a minimal amount of taste or self-respect would flee as quickly as possible.
i don't mean to sound cruel, but when i first started to hear and see wendy williams i thought she was a man in drag. SERIOUSLY. it has taken me some mighty convincing, such as reading this article, to NOT continue to think that.
not that i didn't think she was funny - she was - and god knows, i've known my share of drag queens (hi, eddy!)....but, dang, wendy, you had me fooled for a long time.
(hmmm. i think.)
I though she was Rupaul's sister. LOL
She might be a tad deluded about the milf part ...
That's a man , Baby !
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Yeah, I had to google her just to find out what the fuss was about too. Just from what i read on the web it sounds like she's got all the class and ego of a Howard Stern. She kinda looks like him too, in certain photographs...
Not that it matters because I'm obviously not in the demographic she caters to. Thank god.
This is a train wreck waiting to happen, she is the what Perez Hilton would be if he were black and female.
I thought she was a guy-- she isn't a guy?
I think she's fantastic. At least she's honest about her contribution to culture, and I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone who cares about offending atheists.
Four pages and not one interesting thing said- the purpose of this interview was to encourage people to watch the show?
And can we please stop using people's skin color as a pejorative? "I'm too white and gay to understand that term." You dont know widely used slang, fine. But make it a reason to put down a race.
Milfs have a touching, vulnerable quality about them. This person is more like a sharkey TV person who makes my fillings itch and my stomach hurt just looking at her.
Before a TV talk show becomes reality, there has been research and development provided to determine if a market exists for this venue. If the numbers are right the show goes on. Therefore apparently whether Wendy is a tranny or not, spondsors are going to pay big money for this gig. And like all shows if it flops, losers will take their lumps and move on. Oprah offers something more sophisticated for her viewers, but there are those who are ready for something else, and that's where Wendy is. I think there's room @ the top for many talented people. Don't forget 'variety is the spice of life'.
Wendy Williams is 100% FEMALE! Men cannot give birth! Let me repeat that, MEN CAN NEVER GIVE BIRTH!! They don't have the internal generic makeup to do so. (And the man who gave birth recently, was born a woman first before changing into a man).
Wendy is in the right business for being a media-all-eyes-on-me person. She's brash, loud, funny, and she doesn't forget where she comes from and how far she's come from that and the ugliness in her life. Oprah would kill for a husband and a child, something Wendy has managed to have that Oprah doesn't.
Every dog has its day . . .
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