It seems that the controversy swirling around Barack Obama's former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright just won't end.

In the May 12th issue of 'Newsweek' magazine, the focus has turned from the Democratic presidential candidate to talk show Queen Oprah Winfrey. It would appear that while Winfrey has parlayed her gift of gab into a lucrative empire, she didn't appreciate the inflammatory tone of Rev. Wright's speech while she attended his church.

Winfrey, a transplant to Chicago like Obama, was most likely drawn to the sense of community at the Trinity United Church of Christ when she began attending in 1984. It was the house of worship's assistance to the poor and its down home southern values that probably gave her a sense of connectedness to her new city .

But it only took Winfrey two years to pull up stakes, only attending services there infrequently until the mid 1990's.

So what cooled her warm and fuzzy feeling? According to the article, written by Allison Samuel, it was Wright and organized religion that made Winfrey weary.

... the next day you're someone's windshield."

That is one of the many colorful comments left by forum posters on the Web in reaction to yesterday's conviction of former Newark mayor Sharpe James on fraud charges. He and his ex-girlfriend, Tamika Riley, a Newark publicist, got caught up in a web of rigging cheap sales of city property from the city to her so that she could sell them for a healthy profit.

Not only are they looking at up to seven years imprisonment, but also another federal trial for spending city money so that he could live like a baller/shot caller.

More trouble for Christine Beatty, the former chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, charged in the scandal that's rocked that city.

Beatty is now forbidden to travel anywhere outside the state of Michigan. She must also now wear an electronic tether.

The new restrictions were imposed by Magistrate Steve Lockhart. It comes after it was discovered that Beatty planned to leave the state of Michigan for a job interview. Lockhart said that Beatty failed to provide the court with her travel itinerary and thus the tether rule was enforced.

I don't know if you are aware of this, but director Oliver Stone is making a film about our current president George W. Bush.

The film will be called 'W' and casting has gotten underway with Josh Brolin ('No Country For Old Men') selected to play Bush and Elizabeth Banks cast as First Lady Laura Bush.

The movie will look at Bush's formative years and path to the presidency -- as well as his life inside the White House.

In case you were wondering as to other casting roles, 'The Hollywood Reporter' is stating that Thandie Newton is in final negotiations to star as Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor-turned-Secretary of State.