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Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Jay-Z are the latest pop stars to get the Oprah treatment. Today: how celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and new American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres are becoming tastemakers in the music world. And later: the racy new novel from songwriter Nick Cave might not make Oprah's book club. But it might make you laugh out loud. The lead Bad Seed joins us to talk about the tragicomedy The Death of Bunny Munro.
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Nick Cave
Celebrity Tastemakers
Oprah Winfrey is kicking off her show's fall season with sit-down interviews with pop stars like Jay Z, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Another talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres, will determine the fate of contestants on the next season of American Idol. Today, a look at how media celebrities outside ...
Nick Cave: Novelist
Australian songwriter Nick Cave is a multimedia provocateur. He’s been an intimidating stage performer with the Birthday Party, a warts-and-all composer of songs about God and sex with The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and the screenwriter of a grisly Western, The Proposition. Today, Cave joins us to talk about his ...