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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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What Ellen DeGeneres Doesn't Understand About Hollywood

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Oct 7 2011, 10:55 AM ET Comment

She may be a Emmy-winning host of a hit talk show, but there's still a lot about show business that baffles her

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Ellen DeGeneres' latest book, Seriously ... I'm Kidding, is a collection of essays musing on everything from her childhood to her time as an American Idol judge. Throughout the book, one fact becomes very clear: Despite being a 13-time Emmy-winning host of a hit talk show, DeGeneres is still baffled by a lot of what goes on in Hollywood.

She plays up her sense of being a fish out of water several times throughout the book, particularly as she highlights how little she understands the following things:



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