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Scoop for the Week of April 21st

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Oprah Rules What Oprah Winfrey says, goes. That's what the Illinois courts ruled anyway. Employees of Harpo Inc. (the parent company for Oprah's production studio) are prohibited from talking or writing about Oprah's personal or business affairs as well as her company's. A former Oprah producer, Elizabeth Coady, challenged that confidentiality agreement. She wanted to write a book about her four-year Oprah experience. But the Illinois courts upheld the legality of the agreement. However, it was just two years ago when Oprah was outspoken about her First Amendment rights. She defeated a $12 million lawsuit against her by the Texas cattlemen. They said she made false statements about Mad Cow's Disease that hurt their business. Perhaps Oprah's own words after she beat the cattle lawsuit say it all, "Free speech not only lives, it rocks."

Rosie's Reunion Poor Rosie O'Donnell can't catch a break. First, she spends $75,000 to sponsor her 20-year high school reunion and then everyone gets mad at her. What's the fuss? She's banned spouses from the May 5th event! Rosie's reply? "They weren't even going to have a reunion!" She did organize a brunch with the spouses for the morning after, though. But that still leaves a lot of spouses shouting out against her, saying old high school boyfriends and girlfriends don't mix well at a reunion without their supposed-significant others. Maybe Rosie's just misunderstood. After all, she did say if the spouses were present it would just turn into a "Meeting Rosie session." How's that for an ego?

Just A Good Ole' Boy Never meaning no harm. That's what the theme song for the Dukes of Hazzard says. And while the Confederate flag may disappear from South Carolina's statehouse dome, you'll still see it on the top of The General Lee. In an upcoming reunion special, the original boys of Hazzard, Tom Wopat and John Schneider, will drive their orange '69 Dodge Charger to California for The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood. Producers of the show say they kept the flag on the car to "maintain the integrity of its character." Sheila Douglas, spokeswoman for the NAACP, says they do not plan to protest the show or CBS for its decision to keep the flag on the car. For those of you who still wear your Daisy Dukes and holler "Yee-Haw," you'll want to check out that special on CBS May 19.

Charlie's Catfight It wasn't the Angels that were fighting on the set of Charlie's Angels. It was Bill Murray and Lucy Liu. She started criticizing the writing of a scene with Bill (who's playing Bosley).

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