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LOS ANGELES - Oprah Winfrey will hot a primetime Oscar special with Oscar-winning stars interviewing other Oscar winners.
The daytime talk show queen will host and executive produce The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special, which will air in the US on Feb 22, the Thursday before the network's broadcast of the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The one-hour special will feature Academy Award winners Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Jamie Foxx doing one-on-one interviews with an Oscar-winning actor of their choice.
Roberts will interview George Clooney at his Los Angeles home. Kidman will meet Russell Crowe at the Beverly Hills Hotel for their first-ever on-camera appearance together, and Foxx will sit down with Sidney Poitier on the stage where the veteran actor collected his Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963.
- REUTERS/Hollywood Reporter
