Has it been 25 years already? It seems like just yesterday that a woman with a curious sounding name became a talk-show host and eventually a spiritual leader for millions of daytime TV viewers. Oprah announced in November 2009 that she would end her popular talk show after 25 years. No more Christmas cards from Oprah to her 400 Harpo Studio employees and no more “Aha” moments.

Some people love Oprah so much they can hardly contain it. What will we do without her?

For the past 25 years Oprah has given us so much more than a way to pass the late afternoon hour. She has given us serious political issues, as in 2006 when she invited then Senator Obama onto her show. Within days, he was on the cover of Time magazine with an article listing him as a viable presidential candidate. She gave us “real person” stories that broke your heart and made you cry that “ugly cry”. Then there were celebrities spilling their guts, like Tom Cruise exploding about his love for Katie Holmes in 2005 while jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch, which actually bordered on “craziness”. Oprah lost and gained weight always sharing her struggles with us common folk. Who can forget when she wheeled out a wagon filled with 67 pounds of fat to represent one of her weight losses. Then there was the “You get a car” episode in 2004, when each of her audience members went insane with joy when each got a new car. After that episode, medics were always on hand at her shows just in case audience members fainted.

In 1996, she started Oprah’s Book Club which inspired people to share the joy of reading.

In a 1997 episode, she invited viewers to join her in using their lives to improve the lives of others and launched the Angel Network . Through the generous support of viewers the Angel Network was able to send deserving students to college, build more than 55 schools in 12 countries, provided more than $1 million in school supplies and uniforms to 18,000 impoverished South African children and helped in the recovery efforts of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. These are just a few of the wonderful undertakings of The Angel Network.

She did all of this while she earned billions of dollars, still maintaining her integrity, likability and extremely generous nature.

This is the woman we have grown to admire and love, this is Oprah Gail Winfrey born January 29th, 1954 into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother. She rose from humble beginnings, enduring considerable hardship during her childhood to become ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and according to some, the Most Influential Woman in the World!

We will miss you Oprah! We have lived with you for 25 years, there will be an empty spot in our lives so bring on the reruns; I am sure there are a few we could watch forever and ever!

Now that Congressman Anthony Weiner has resigned his position amid the sext scandal, here are some possibilities asto what he might want to take up going forward:

Anthony Weiner was a U.S. Representative, but he couldn't figure out that you shouldn't send out dirty Twitter pictures!

•    Since his wife works for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, perhaps he can get a working for her husband, former President Bill Clinton, also known for his sexploits.

•    Since he seems to be enamored of his own body, he can work as a Chippendale’s model and videotape himself.

•    He can spend his entire day working fulltime for Twitter since he qualifies as a fulltime twit.

•    Using his abilities as a public speaker, he can become a spokesman for the Oscar Meyer company promoting their hot dogs.

•    He can get a job hosting a news program on CNN – it seems that’s where all the former politicians/perverts seem to end up (see, Elliott Spitzer).

•    He could become a model for the Cannon Towel company.

Whatever he does or wherever he works, one can wonder whether his wife Huma will be included in his Christmas card mailings this coming holiday season! I’m going to guess no!

We all know Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a very bad boy. Besides his reportedly numerous dalliances, he fathered a love child with housekeeper Mildred Baena. In fact, their “love child” was born only one week after his wife Maria Shriver gave birth to their youngest son. So the question remains, if Arnold and Maria don’t patch things up, will Mildred and son become the new family on the Christmas cards?

Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to decide if it's going to be Mildred Baena or Maria Shriver on his Christmas cards this year!

It doesn’t seem very likely. Mildred claims that her affair with Arnold was short lived, and has filled her with guilt. She says that she broke down when confronted by Maria about the son who bears a striking resemblance to Arnold. According to Baena, when she finally confessed to Maria “She was so strong. She cried with me and told me to get off my knees. We held each other and I told her it wasn’t Arnie’s fault, that it takes two.” Baena also says she empathizes with Arnold and wishes him no ill will “He’s a good man and I know he’s suffering too. He loves Maria. I hope with time they work things out.”

So, Mildred and her son may not be the next family Schwarzenegger, but at last it’s all out in the open. Everyone can move forward with their lives, at least until the next secret “love child” is uncovered!

I like to see the type of Christmas cards celebrities send for the holidays, I get a kick out of seeing if the Christmas card matches sometimes their zany personalities. I saw a card from one of my favorite celebrities that had me scratching my head in wonder because it was so out of character for this him. The card was from LL Cool J. Just to give a little insight about LL, as fans know – especially ladies – the history of his name stands for Ladies Love Cool James thus shortened to LL Cool J. He also has a trademark look, it’s a hat. Look at any picture of him even back in the day when his career took off at the ripe age of 16 and still going strong 26 years later you will rarely see LL without a hat on his head, I’m not talking 1 signature hat in different colors but a wardrobe closet full of hats for every occasion the way most women have shoes.

When LL’s out and about town, performing on stage, making an appearance for a charity event, presenter of an award or being the recipient of an award LL is always wearing a hat, it’s been a trademark look for him since I first saw him performing in a park in Queens New York when he was just 16 and I was a tiny bit older. I was impressed then and have been ever since, you don’t hear any negative tabloid buzz about LL or he doesn’t travel with a posse that most hip hop artist seem to have, his lyrics aren’t your typical hardcore rap that demean or speak ill of women, he writes songs and sings with his lady fans in mind because he’s LL Cool J and a family man with a wife & four children. He currently stars on the television show NCIS: Los Angeles, designs a clothing line, and has even authored a book.

Now back to his Christmas card! The image that I saw before me was puzzling, featuring SIX Christmas stockings, that’s right, I said it, stockings! The six stockings represent all the members of his family. I was expecting Santa hats, or at least a picture of LL posing in a Santa hat for his lady fans. I was so disappointed in the Christmas card, I felt cheated out of seeing LL with his amazing smile, muscled physique and to top it off the Santa hat. Am I asking too much to have a Christmas card of LL with a Santa hat on smiling back at me? Perhaps next years card will be the one I’m hoping for.

Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted to fathering a son after having had a “dalliance” with a member of his household staff, it would be interesting to see once his now-on-hold movie career resumes, what “remakes” he might star in which could presumably vault him again to the top of the box office charts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a bad, bad boy, and Maria Shriver knows it!

“The Christmas Card of 1941” – In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a soldier and his best girl worry whether they may be spending their last Christmas together.  Arnold would be the soldier while his girlfriend could be played by soon-to-be ex-wife Maria Shriver, in the remake whose title could be changed to “ The Christmas Card of 2011”, ensuring they would NOT be spending Christmas together or exchanging Christmas cards ever again.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” – Arnold could play the part of George Bailey, only in this version the angel just lets him jump off the bridge anyway.  (He would deserve it.)

“Back to the Future” – Marty McFly (played, of course, by Arnold) escapes from the Libyans and is propelled back to 1955 where, thankfully, he stays.

“Commando” – Reprising his role as John Matrix, older and more-wrinkled, he is again the target of every conceivable type of weapon—bullets, grenades, Uzis, you name it—but only this time hiding behind a sticker bush doesn’t protect him, and he expires within the first 10 minutes of the movie.

“The King’s Speech” – The remake would be renamed “The Governor’s Speech” and it would be about Schwarzenegger again becoming the governor of California, only this time he is forced to go to a speech therapist (who happens to be a beautiful female) since his constituents have trouble understanding him.  After many late-night, exhaustive sessions, no solution to his problem is found and he is forced to resign in shame after the therapist gives birth to his child.

If anyone would think that any of these juicy roles would catapult Arnold Schwarzenegger into Oscar consideration, I would think that rather than having any chance of being awarded the 8-pound gold statuette, he would almost assuredly be given a loud Bronx cheer.   Hasta la vista, baby!