ABCDE Arts&Style sunday, december 26, 2010


MOVIES Peeling back time to


’70s struggles Filmmaker Tanya Hamilton’s “Night Catches Us” looks at the emotional side of the Black Panther era. E3


BLOGSANDCHATS washingtonpost.com/style ’Freedom Riders’ Filmmaker hopes his documentary inspires a new generation E11 Virtual Choir The next YouTube choir may have thousands of singers E9


Ask Amy, E12 Celebrations, E11 Cul de Sac, E12 Movie Guide, E8 Horoscope, E12 Lively Arts Guide, E5


ONLOVE A submariner’s


surface attraction The first few times they met, things did not go well. Then a short separation helped the romance develop. E10


TVREVIEW


The holiday season culminates with the birth of a new cable empire for the televangelist of talk. All together now, faithful followers: O come, let us adore her.


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ranting an hour-long, prime-time in- terviewto her friendBarbaraWalters this month, Oprah Winfrey spoke of self-sacrifice in such a way that the taping ought to have taken place in theGardenofGethsemane.


In preparing towrap up 25 years of her daytime


talk show, the epic cultural influence of which defiesmeasurement, and start the OprahWinfrey Network (OWN),whichwill be filledwith purpose- driven lifestyle programming and seen in some 80 million households,Winfrey toldWalters she sees herself neither as billionaire nor celebrity. In the end, she is but a vessel ofGod: “Use me,” Winfrey said she asks the Lord. “Use


me until you useme up.” She has a way of basking too often in the very


miracle of herself — a poor Southern black child lifted to global prominence—and yet her real skill is howshe invites you to bask in your ownmiracu- lousness. Everything is geared toward becoming, rejuvenating and, appropriately enoughto thenew year, resolving. Your personal sense of Oprahness,


(The OprahWinfrey Network) BY HANK STUEVER


aswell as your ability tobe everythingOprahhopes you canbe, is entirely up to . . . you. This Oprah-as-earthen-vessel notion stuck with


me as I dived into previews of some of the shows thatwill be seen onOWNwhen it launches at noon onNewYear’sDay. While far from perfect, the network is suffused


withadesire toennoble, share, cleanse andelevate. Admiring what turned out to be a fairly nutritious array of new ideas in OWN’s initial offerings, I foundmyself imagining the world a few centuries from now. There is only one prediction to make about the future (and I’mnot the first tomake it), and it is this: Therewill beOprah churches all over the world. OWN is just one step in a process that will more fully (and valiantly, it turns out) spread theOprahworldview. I’m not sure how these churches will reconcile


themany theological qualms that will arise—can Oprah align with the Trinity? etc.—but one thing Oprah church historians will have, barring any


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Some people think Washington is anti-fashion. So wrong. It’s part of our power statement.


ROBIN GIVHAN On Fashion


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he common reaction from folks outside the Beltway has always been surprise that this


newspaper—headquartered in the land of Dockers, Lands’ End satchels and sensible shoes—takes its fashion coverage seriously. After all,NewYork is the heart of the


country’s fashion industry and Washington—by virtue of its proximity toManhattan—has always suffered in sartorial comparisons. The nation’s capital has also fared poorly when considered alongside Los Angeles, even though that’s a fashion landscape best known for overpriced jeans and velour sweat suits. Those juxtapositions have always


seemed unfair.NewYork has an outsize population of fashion world denizens.


If they aren’t paying special attention to trends and high style, then who will? And film, the singular business of Los Angeles, is a visual medium. Obsessing about one’s looks is in an actor’s job description. YetWashington has its own unique


relationship with the fashion industry, and for the past 15 years I’ve been honored to report on it. And now, as I prepare to leave The Post for a challenging adventure atNewsweek and The Daily Beast, I’mreminded of how much I have been shaped and energized byWashington style, which has always been about so much more than merely clothes. In a city that overflows with


intellectual curiosity, residents are fascinated by this billion-dollar industry that thrives by tapping into our deepest fantasies, insecurities and prejudices. Fashion seeps into our subconscious and influences the way in which we see ourselves and those around us. Even when we pretend not to care about the clothes in the glossy advertisements, we are still bothered by the models. They are too thin, too


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The Coen brothers: Critic Ann Hornaday ranks their movies, while


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INAUGURALLOOK: Chronicling the first lady’s style has meant studying her ball gowns as well as her shorts (when she went to the Grand Canyon).


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JOHANNA GOODMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST


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