More info about Oprah Winfrey
"Oprah" redirects here. For her talk show, see The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Winfrey Winfrey at her 50th birthday party at Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles, in 2004. Born January 29, 1954 (1954-01-29) (age 54) Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States Residence Chicago, Illinois, United States Occupation Talk show host, media mogul Salary $385 million (2008)[1] Net worth over US$2.7 billion ▲ (Sept. 2008) Partner Stedman Graham Website www.oprah.com
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954), often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American television host, media mogul, and philanthropist. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television.[2] She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century,[3] the most philanthropic African American of all time,[4] and was once the world's only black billionaire.[5][6][7][8][9] She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.[10][11][12]
Born in rural Mississippi to a poor teenage single mother and later raised in an inner city Milwaukee neighborhood, Winfrey was raped at age 9 and at 14-years-old gave birth to a son, who died in infancy.[13] Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.[14] Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[6] she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication,[15] she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized[16][17][15][18] the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue,[15] which a Yale study claimed broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGTB people to enter the mainstream.[19] By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture[18] and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others.[20] In 2006 she became an early supporter of Barack Obama and is credited with delivering over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.[21]
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Oprah Winfrey hosting her show from D.C.
2008-12-04 19:34:00 GMT
You just knew Oprah Winfrey was going to be part of Barack Obama's inauguration festivities. She'll host a live episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show from the Kennedy Center Opera House on Jan. 19, the day before Obama takes the presidential oath of office, Harpo Productions said Thursday
http://blogs.tampabay.com/juice/2008/12/oprah-winfrey-h.html
Oprah Show Takes DC
2008-12-04 19:15:57 GMT
Key quote: "That's right, President-elect Barack Obama's biggest cheerleader - Oprah Winfrey - will bring her wildly popular daytime show to the nation's capitol during the week of his Jan. 20
http://www.obamatracker.com/raw_obama/2008/12/oprah-show-takes-dc.html
Oprah Winfrey Show Goes to Washington for Inauguration
2008-12-04 19:14:56 GMT
Obama_oprah_1 CHICAGO — Ms. Winfrey is going to Washington. Harpo Productions says Winfrey will host a live episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show ... of office. Winfrey has been a prominent Obama supporter, appearing with him at campaign rallies, donating
http://www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2008/12/oprah-winfrey-show-goes-to-washington-for-inauguration.html
Obama Won because of his Power to cause... Lactation?
2008-12-04 19:13:09 GMT
You may remember the term "Gorbasm," coined by Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s. As Rush defines it in his book The Way Things Ought to Be, a Gorbasm is "(A) fake and phony feeling of bliss, euphoria, excitement, ecstacy, and nirvana when pondering all the wonderful things Mikhail Gorbachev has done for the planet
http://www.conservatismtoday.com/my_weblog/2008/12/obama-won-because-of-his-power-to-cause-lactation-.html
CCR #1: Present--(Dave Chappelle)--historical sketch
2008-12-04 18:33:56 GMT
Dave Chappelle’s rise to fame came after he graduated from Washington’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, majoring in theatre arts in 1991 ... with me but laughing at me” (Wikipedia) He said this on the Oprah Winfrey show, he cites race issues were
http://nobles.typepad.com/lizr/2008/12/ccr-1-present-.html
BLUE DOG JEWELLERY - QUOTE OF THE DAY
2008-12-04 10:03:57 GMT
"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are — not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within — that you can begin to take control." —Oprah Winfrey: Television host, publisher, and book critic
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A year later, Amazon's Kindle finds a niche - CNN.com
2008-12-04 09:52:43 GMT
[ A year later, Amazon's Kindle finds a niche - CNN.com] A year later, Amazon's Kindle finds a niche - CNN.com http://www.cnn ... have been steady, but the device so far remains mostly a tech novelty Oprah Winfrey has praised it, but J.K.
http://serenitylife.vox.com/library/post/a-year-later-amazons-kindle-finds-a-niche---cnncom.html
Oprah coming to D.C. SHE'S RENTED THE KENNEDY CENTER
2008-12-04 01:15:35 GMT
081203_oprah_allen Oprah Winfrey, who gave President-elect Barack Obama a crucial boost during the early primaries, ... for the week. "See you there,” Winfrey told “Access Hollywood” in an interview. “That's the place to be." Winfrey said she has rented out the Opera House at the Kennedy Center to film the show, “Access
http://estergoldberg.typepad.com/views_from_a_broad/2008/12/oprah-coming-to-dc-shes-rented-the-kennedy-center.html
Oprah Winfrey to shoot show in D.C. during inauguration
2008-12-04 01:08:33 GMT
Posted at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 Oprah Oprah Winfrey laughed and cried with strangers on election night. Willshe do it again at the inauguration? Getty Images photo Oprah Winfrey is hitting the road. The Chicago-based talk show host will take “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to Washington, D.C., during
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/showpatrol/2008/12/oprah-dc-inauguration.html
Real Estate: Oprah Winfrey (Wizbang Pop!)
2008-12-03 23:57:43 GMT
SELLER: Oprah Winfrey LOCATION: E. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL PRICE: $6,000,000 SIZE: 4,607 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.2 bathrooms DESCRIPTION: Benjamin Marshall's 1913 Beaux-arts style jewel
http://tax-ist.livejournal.com/626660.html
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