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Oprah Winfrey; A True TV Pioneer!
(From Wikipedia.org)
Winfrey was born in rural Mississippi to a poor family — her
unmarried teenage parents were a housemaid, Vernita Lee, and apparently
a soldier, Vernon Winfrey, although there is serious doubt on all sides
that he is her biological father. Her birth certificate has Orpah
after the Moabite woman in the
Book of Ruth in the Bible, but family and neighbors transposed the R
and the P when pronouncing and writing her name. Eventually, Oprah
became the accepted name.
Winfrey began her career in broadcasting at age 19, by which time she
had been living in a better quality of life in Tennessee with Vernon for
a number of years. She was both the youngest
news anchor and the first black female news anchor at
Nashville's
WTVF-TV.
She moved to
Baltimore's WJZ-TV in
1976 to
co-anchor the six o'clock
news. She
was then recruited to join Richard Sher as co-host of WJZ's local
talk
show, People Are Talking, which premiered on
August 14,
1978.
Winfrey is a graduate of Tennessee State University, a historically
Black Institution.
Success in television and movies
In 1983,
Winfrey relocated to
Chicago, Illinois to take over as host of
WLS-TV's
low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago, which
premiered on
New Year's Day,
1984. The
show was so successful with Winfrey as host that it was renamed
The Oprah Winfrey Show, expanded to an hour, and debuted
nationally on
September 8,
1986.
Originally, the show followed traditional talk show formats. 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.
Winfrey began to do a lot of charity work, and her show featured people
suffering from poverty or the victims of unfortunate accidents.
In 1985,
Winfrey co-starred in
Steven Spielberg's epic adaptation of
Alice Walker's award-winning novel
The Color Purple. She earned immediate acclaim as Sofia, the
distraught housewife. The following year Winfrey was nominated for an
Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress, but she lost to
Anjelica Huston. Many think this was due in part to the
AMPAS's
"Anti-Spielberg" bias, thinking the film would've been better if
directed by an
African-American director.
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