Oprah Winfrey

One critic, Myrna Blyth, editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal magazine from 1981 to 2002, charges in her book Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness— and Liberalism—to the Women of America, that the "elite women of media" allegedly sell unhappiness to women and tout false advice when in contrary women's life has been getting better lately than ever.[2] (http://www.700club.com/cbnnews/news/040423a.asp). and one for television at 1620 Vine Street. Oprah Winfrey has been criticized by conservatives for allegedly championing liberal causes. Wyman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6607 Hollywood Blvd. She also plans to host 140 episodes per season, until her final season, when it will return to its current number, 130.[1] (http://thecelebritycafe.com/features/1724.html). She gained fans of a new generation in the 1980s when she starred as the diabolical vintner Angela Channing in the nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest. Winfrey recently made a deal to extend her show until the 2010-2011 season, by which time it will have been on the air twenty-five years. In the 1950s, she hosted a television anthology series, Jane Wyman Theater.

Winfrey is based in Chicago, Illinois but has a home in Montecito, California; she is reported to have recently been buying property on Maui. She starred in The Glass Menagerie, Just for You, Let's Do It Again, The Blue Veil (another Oscar nomination), So Big, Magnificent Obsession (Oscar nomination), Lucy Gallant, All That Heaven Allows and Miracle in the Rain. She is the president of Harpo Productions (Oprah spelled backwards), which, among other things, produced the screen adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved. Winfrey has also ventured into acting, most notably in the screen adaptation of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and in her own production Beloved. Winfrey is also a published author, and was the recipient of the first Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Emmy Awards. She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright, with Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom and with Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rogers. She publishes her own magazines, O: The Oprah Magazine (http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/omag_landing.jhtml) and O at Home, and cofounded the women's cable television network Oxygen. The Oscar win gave her the ability to choose meatier roles, although she still showed a liking for musical comedy. Winfrey has started The Angel Network (http://www.oprah.com/uyl/oan_landing.jhtml), an organization that collects millions of dollars a year for charities. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 for The Yearling, and finally won the Oscar in 1948 for her role as the deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda.

After the trial, Oprah received a postcard from Rosie O'Donnell reading, "Congratulations, you beat the meat!". Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film noir The Lost Weekend. After a trial spanning over two months in a court in the thick of Texas cattle country, the jury found on February 26 that Oprah was not guilty, did not act with malice, and was not liable for damages. Michael was adopted during their marriage. During a show about Mad Cow disease with Howard Lyman aired on April 16, 1996, Winfrey exclaimed, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Texas cattlemen sued Oprah and Lyman in early 1998 for "false defamation of perishable food" and "business disparagement", claiming that Winfrey's remarks subsequently sent cattle prices tumbling, costing beef producers some $12 million. In the previous year, she had co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat. The two were married in 1940, but divorced in 1948. They had two children; Maureen Reagan (1941-2001), and Michael Reagan (born March 18, 1945). Whenever Winfrey introduced a new book as her book-club selection, the book almost instantly became a best-seller, a powerful demonstration of Winfrey's influence. In 1939 she received her first starring role, in Torchy Plays With Dynamite.

In the late 1990s, Winfrey introduced her book club on television. In 1936, she was back in Hollywood, obtaining bit parts in My Man Godfrey and Cain and Mabel. Her own weight fluctuations have caused her to be considered a weight-loss guru. The two moved back to Missouri, where Sarah Jane attended college, but in 1930 she began a radio singing career, calling herself Jane Durrell. Winfrey has often discussed openly various aspects of her life, including those more unpleasant ones, with the media, including a sexually abusive childhood and a problem with drugs as an adult. When that was unsuccessful, she turned to her daughter as a surrogate, but neither was able to move Hollywood. Winfrey began to do a lot of charity work, and her show featured people suffering from poverty or the victims of unfortunate accidents. In 1928, she and her mother moved to Southern California, where her mother, Le Jerne Pichelle, tried to start her own acting career.

By the mid 1990s, however, the format became more serious, addressing issues that Winfrey thought were of direct importance and of crucial consequence to women. Born Sarah Jane Mayfield in Saint Joseph, Missouri, she later took the name Sarah Jane Fulks in honor of the neighbor family who "unofficially adopted" her after her parents divorced. Originally, the show followed traditional talk show formats. Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914) is an American actress. An African American woman born to humble beginnings, she started as a Baltimore news anchor. In 1986, her local Chicago daytime talk show, called The Oprah Winfrey Show (and later abbreviated to Oprah), debuted nationally. 1947 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Yearling. Eventually, Oprah became the accepted name. 1949 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - Johnny Belinda.

Her birth certificate has Orpah, after the Moabite woman in the Book of Ruth, but family and neighbors transposed the R and the P when pronouncing and writing her name. 1952 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Blue Veil. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born 29 January 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States. 1955 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Magnificent Obsession.