Oprah's production company, Harpo Productions, was behind the 1999 TV film "Tuesdays With Morrie."

Mitch Albom (<a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB000287" title="Hank Azaria" href="/topic/entertainment/hank-azaria-PECLB000287.topic">Hank Azaria</a>, right) lives life in the fast lane. A successful sports writer, he does six things at once, never getting off the roller coaster. Only when he reconnects with Morrie Schwartz (<a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB003003" title="Jack Lemmon" href="/topic/entertainment/jack-lemmon-PECLB003003.topic">Jack Lemmon</a>), a man he used to call "coach," does Mitch learn to live life to its fullest, in the two-hour "ABC Original" film, "OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS: TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE,"

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Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria, right) lives life in the fast lane. A successful sports writer, he does six things at once, never getting off the roller coaster. Only when he reconnects with Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon), a man he used to call "coach," does Mitch learn to live life to its fullest, in the two-hour "ABC Original" film, "OPRAH WINFREY PRESENTS: TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE,"

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