I Wanna Dance With Somebody: Remembering Whitney Houston’s Major Oprah Comeback

For a quarter of a century, The Oprah Winfrey Show was one of the most influential forces in pop culture. Five days a week, Oprah Winfrey—who became a superstar through the medium of TV—courted debates, shared human interest stories, and conducted celebrity interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Halle Berry to Tom Cruise. If a television was on at 4 p.m., it was likely tuned to Oprah. So, it was on this show that Whitney Houston, the inimitable talent whose legendary career had been derailed by drug addiction, positioned her big career comeback in 2009. Winfrey, credibly, touted Houston’s… Read Full Article