oprah winfrey

     

According to Forbes Magazine, this talk show host is on her way to becoming America's first black billionaire

Trivia about oprah winfrey

  • If it weren't for a misspelling on her birth certificate, she would have had the first name Orpah
  • Kaye Gibbons' "Ellen Foster" & "A Virtuous Woman" have found their way into this TV host's book club
  • This talk show queen sometimes seats people at the Eccentric Restaurant in Chicago -- she's a co-owner
  • Tom Cruise jumped up & down on this left-hander's couch
  • This queen of talk shows ranked among Ebony magazine's 15 Most Beautiful Black Women of 1996
  • She's on the cover of every issue of O Magazine (it is her magazine, after all)
  • 2000:A TV host & media personality
  • Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet
  • Voted most popular at her East Nashville high school, in the '80s, she'd become the talk of the town
  • Some of this talk show host's favorite recipes are featured in the bestseller "In the Kitchen with Rosie"
  • "A.M. Chicago" was renamed after her in 1985, a year before the show became syndicated across the country
  • She was on the cover of the premiere issue of O Magazine (it is her magazine, after all)
  • When visiting Chicago, you can see this star tape her talk show at her own studio on Carpenter Street
  • This talk show host said in 1988, "If there had never been a Phil, there never would have been a me"
  • TV's Dr. Phil got his first big exposure on her show
  • "The O List" naming some of her favorite products is a regular feature of her O Magazine
  • Her largest audience watched her "Diet Show" on which she discussed losing 67 pounds
  • (Before the clue is given, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes from the Tony-nominated musical The Color Purple performs a cappella.)"Like a blade of corn/Like a honeybee/Like a waterfall/All a part of me/Like the color purple/Where do it come from?/Open up your eyes/Look what God has done"This woman says "The Color Purple" changed her life; she loved the novel, acted in the film & is one of the producers of the Broadway musical
  • She revived her book club in 2003 by selecting Steinbeck's "East of Eden" & its sales skyrocketed
  • You can read a lot into the fact she named her production company Harpo
  • She's the richest woman in entertainment & Forbes' top power player for 2007; not bad for a kid from Kosciusko
  • Chairman of her own company, this African-American woman & talk show host has a TV show seen in 107 countries
  • This female daytime TV icon is "the only person to appear on this list every year since it began"
  • She liked "Their Eyes Were Watching God" so much that she made it into a TV movie
  • Her on-air 50th birthday bash included guests Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner &, of course, Stedman
  • In 1999 she & Stedman Graham taught a "Dynamics of Leadership" course at an Illinois college
  • In "Make the Connection", this talk show host & her trainer reveal "Ten Steps to a Better Body & a Better Life"
  • On Jan. 2, 2007 school was in at this TV icon's $40 million leadership academy in South Africa
  • "Programs On" her "New Television Network" include "Two and a Half Stedmans"
  • As head of Harpo Entertainment, she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios
  • (I'm Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) As part of PBS' "African American Live" series, I hosted a 2007 special that explored the roots of this TV personality & located her ancestors among Liberia's Kpelle people
  • The NAACP's Spingarn Medal for 2000 went to this talk show host