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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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Oprah: The Movie. It's Happening.

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Jul 13 2010, 8:00 AM ET Comment

Deadline Hollywood reports that Kitty Kelly's biography of Oprah Winfrey will be made into a television movie. Details below, but the real question is: Who will play the talk show host/magazine magnate/Oscar-nominated actress?
[Veteran TV movie producer Larry A.] Thompson plans to turn the book into a TV movie or a miniseries to air in September 2011, coinciding with Winfrey's sign-off from her syndicated daytime talk show after 25 years. He is close to signing a writer for the adaptation and is already shopping the project to TV networks.

Read the full story at Deadline Hollywood.



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