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  Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Oprah Winfrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oprah Winfrey revolutionized the talk show market with her unique and natural style and rose to become the host of the most watched daytime show on television, which boasts 22 million viewers daily (three-fourths of whom are women).
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, on a farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Winfrey has made generous contributions to charitable organizations and institutions such as Morehouse College, the Harold Washington Library, the United Negro College Fund, and Tennessee State University, and in February of 2000 she was honored by Coretta Scott King at the Salute to Greatness Awards dinner at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 Oprah Winfrey Fansite Oprah Fans United
Oprah is a friend to the world and a role model for all people, of any gender, of any race, of any group.
Oprah, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Harpo, Make The Connection, Oprah's Book Club, Use Your Life, Oprah's Favorite Things, Oprah and Friends and Live Your Best Life are registered trademarks of Harpo, Inc. Oprah's Angel Network, O Girls and Angel Network are registered trademarks of Oprah's Angel Network.
Oprah Winfrey Scholars, O Design, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls South Africa and O Design are trademarks of The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation.
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 Oprah Winfrey Biography
Winfrey has amassed a great fortune through her media and publishing interests and uses her fame and wealth to positively influence the lives of people in need.
Oprah Winfrey's career in the media industry began as a news anchor and reporter for a television station in Nashville (although she also worked in radio during high school as a newscaster).
Winfrey's business and personal interests are wide ranging and she has managed to accomplish success in several areas.
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 Oprah Winfrey Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was reared by her grandmother on a farm where she "began her broadcasting career" by learning to read aloud and perform recitations at the age of three.
Oprah Winfrey's broadcasting career began at age 17, when she was hired by WVOL radio in Nashville, and two years later signed on with WTVF-TV in Nashville as a reporter/anchor.
Oprah Winfrey was named one of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century by Time magazine, and in 1998 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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  Oprah Winfrey Biography, Bio, Profile, pictures, photos from Netglimse.com
Was sued by Texas cattlemen who claimed that Oprah defamed beef on her talk show.
Oprah began her career in broadcasting at age 19, when she became both the youngest news anchor and the first African-American woman news anchor at Nashville's WTVF-TV.
Under the Harpo Films banner, Oprah is the executive producer, with Kate Forte, of the Oprah Winfrey franchise Oprah Winfrey Presents, a collection of original television television films for ABC.
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 Oprah Winfrey's Biography
Through her private charity, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, she has awarded hundreds of grants to organizations that support the education and empowerment of women, children and families in the United States and around the world.
In December 2002, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation expanded its global humanitarian efforts with her ChristmasKindness South Africa 2002 initiative that included visits to orphanages and rural schools in South Africa where 50,000 children received gifts of food, clothing, athletic shoes, school supplies, books and toys.
Oprah's commitment to children also led her to initiate the National Child Protection Act in 1991, when she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to establish a national database of convicted child abusers.
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 TV Shows: Oprah Winfrey Show, The - Seriously TEN
The Oprah Winfrey Show is hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey which aims to positively inspire its viewers.
Winfrey recently made a deal to extend her show until the 2010 - 2011 season, by which time it will have been on the air for 25 years.
Oprah's Angels was founded by Oprah in 1998 in an effort to encourage people around the world to make a difference through philanthropy.
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  Oprah Winfrey | OprahWinfrey Show | Oprah.com | O Magazine
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the multiple Emmy-winning host of the highest rated talk show in television history, an influential book critic, an Oscar nominated actress, and a best-selling magazine publisher.
Rumors state that Oprah Winfrey was at a party the previous owners were throwing and so fell in love with the estate that she was reported to have purchased it by writing a personal check for $50,000,000 USD, although it was not for sale.
A relationship with a married man led Winfrey to contemplate suicide in her twenties and an ex-lover from that same period tried to write a tell-all book in which he claimed that he and Winfrey smoked crack together.
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  Oprah Winfrey - MSN Encarta
Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, American talk-show host and actor, whose nationally syndicated program became one of the most popular on television and won numerous Emmy Awards.
One of her show’s most popular segments is “Oprah’s Book Club.” Beginning in 1996 this book discussion has aired several times a year, each time focused on a work chosen by Winfrey.
Winfrey’s role as Sofia in The Color Purple (1985; adapted from the book by Alice Walker) won her a 1986 Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress.
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  Oprah Winfrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winfrey's grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses.
Winfrey's audience is extremely loyal and XM hopes that the "Oprah Effect" can have the same effect on XM subscription sales that she does on the New York Times Best Seller list, thanks to her book club.
Winfrey and Wiesel travelled together back to the Auschwitz concentration camp with Wiesel telling Winfrey that he would not have made the trip with just anyone and that it was probably his last trip there.
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 Winfrey, Oprah
Oprah Winfrey, known primarily as the nationally and internationally syndicated American talk show host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, has successfully charted and navigated a career that has built on the television industry as a form of public therapy.
One of the key features of Oprah Winfrey's television persona is that her own private life has been an essential element of her talk-show format of public therapy.
Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954 and was raised solely by her paternal grandmother for her first six years on a rural pig farm.
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 Oprah Winfrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oprah Winfrey's rise to fame is a tale at once tragic and inspiring.
Winfrey was a precocious child who asked her kindergarten teacher to advance her to the first grade; Winfrey also skipped the second grade.
When she was 14, Winfrey went to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee, and it was there that her life was put back on track.
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 Oprah Winfrey Biography | Africa | AIDS Activist | Televison Talk Show Host | Picture | Kids Entertainment News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oprah Winfrey is the gabfest hostest with the mostest - at least according to more than 15 million US people who watch her show daily.
In December 2003, Oprah began a gift-giving pilgrimage in Africa.
Oprah says she was inspired by the nuns who brought food and gifts to her house on Christmas when she was just 12 years old.
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 Oprah Winfrey, News, Pictures, Video Clips, Bio
Winfrey's first foray into hosting/producing came in 1986, with a solid hit on Chicago's WLS-TV's The Oprah Winfrey Show that went on to become the highest-rated talk show in TV history with a weekly audience of 26 million.
Early in 2006, Winfrey's credibility was called into question over a scandal in which she publicly praised James Frey's memoir, "A Million Little Pieces." a story of drug abuse and recovery that became one of the best-selling books of 2005 after Winfrey named it to her book club.
Most recently, Winfrey has returned to her radio station roots by signing a three-year, $55 million agreement with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel, to be called Oprah and Friends.
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 Oprah Winfrey Relationships
Oprah Winfrey often tries to "cheer up" or offer philosophical advice to those who are hurting, but she unwittingly avoids or ignores the emotions involved.
Oprah Winfrey values friendship very highly and in fact, she is more comfortable being a friend than a lover.
Oprah Winfrey appreciates relationships in which her love partner allows her plenty of freedom and is not very emotionally demanding.
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 Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi  on January 29, 1954 to teenage parents.
Being a part of her grandmothers’ life was probably the best thing that could have happened to Oprah.  She learned the skills needed to succeed in the professional world as well as her own life.
Oprah returned to her mother’s home where she was molested on more than one occasion by more than one person.  As a result of the rapes she rebelled and became pregnant.
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show
Oprah began her career in broadcasting at the age of 19 when she became the youngest and the first African-American woman ever to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV.
Oprah's commitment to empowering women and children is reflected through her charitable and philanthropic contributions.
Oprah is using her philanthropic efforts to establish educational scholarship for hundreds of students in schools and universities throughout the country, including 100 men at Morehouse University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 Oprah Winfrey - Uncyclopedia
Oprah Winfrey stomps around like the total whore that she is. Not Pictured: The rest of the universe at the time this was taken.
Born Orca Whinefrie, Oprah was forged in the mythical mountains of Limburg.
Oprah in her attack position, she uses a form of methane propulsion and it's hard to say whether a gazillion tons of Oprah heading at you or the backblast is actually worst.
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 A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Oprah Winfrey | PBS
Winfrey moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the age of six to live with her mother.
Winfrey's honest and engaging personality quickly turned the program into a success, and in 1985 it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Winfrey engaged in numerous philanthropic activities and was an outspoken crusader against child abuse.
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 Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey enters Sheila’s spiritual vacuum and attempts to do her a favor by filling the void with her own set of rather questionable prophets.
Oprah Winfrey, all of her New Age guests, and the publishing industry that supports them are savvy enough to know that, human nature being what it is, New Age adherents will never be done; they will never be healed.
Winfrey will continue to try to be helpful to the Sheilas of the world, who limp along in their spiritual and emotional lives; but, in following the lead of Winfrey’s gurus, the Sheilas of the world will never do more than limp.
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 Hangin' With Oprah Winfrey
Oprah was born on January 29, 1954 in Koscusko, Mississippi.
When Oprah was fourteen she gave birth to a premature baby that later died.
When Oprah was nineteen, she got her first broadcasting job at WVOL in Nashville.
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 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the heart of everything Oprah Winfrey does, there is a consistent message - that individuals should take personal responsibility for their lives, and to improve the world.
Winfrey is the first African-American woman to own her own production company; a talented actress nominated for an Academy Award in her first movie; television's highest-paid entertainer; producer and actress in her own television specials; and the successful host of a syndicated television talk show that reaches 15 million people a day.
As a victim herself, Winfrey knows the damage abuse does to young lives, and she was a major force in the drafting, lobbying and passage of the National Child Protection Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1994.
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 Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Oprah Winfrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oprah Winfrey revolutionized the talk show market with her unique and natural style and rose to become the host of the most watched daytime show on television, which boasts 22 million viewers daily (three-fourths of whom are women).
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, on a farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Winfrey has made generous contributions to charitable organizations and institutions such as Morehouse College, the Harold Washington Library, the United Negro College Fund, and Tennessee State University, and in February of 2000 she was honored by Coretta Scott King at the Salute to Greatness Awards dinner at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
www.gale.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/winfrey_o.htm   (2865 words)

  
 Hollywood Unmasked - Oprah Winfrey
Oprah believes in using her life as a puppet for Satan's ruthless assault on mankind, and is subsequently leading people into the fires of hell empowered by demonic forces.
Winfrey says that she has come to know each of them personally and calls them in at will to guide her in her work.
Oprah's motion picture, Beloved, gives an account of a woman who is haunted by the spirit of her dead daughter; which is a Biblically condemned story that advocates communication with the dead.
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 Oprah Winfrey
Oprah has literally touched the lives of millions of viewers, as seen by her die-hard fans and her number one ratings: "[Oprah] has been making that difference for millions of viewers, young and old, fl and white, for nearly a dozen years"(1).
Despite the fact that Oprah is a fl woman, a member of a group that has been in a subordinate position both on racial and gender lines for nearly all of America's history, she has become possibly the most influential and successful TV personality ever.
Oprah realizes that because she is one of the few fl women to ever have had a voice in American society, she must use it.
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