Word: belovedness
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By the late 1980s, as Winfrey became a major player in television and the movies (she won an Oscar nomination in 1986 for her supporting role in The Color Purple), her personal interest in slavery had turned into frustration that the subject was so rarely dealt with in popular culture...
Thin love ain't no love at all," says Sethe, the fiercely defiant runaway slave in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Oprah Winfrey's love for the book was thick, warm, abiding. With eyewitness immediacy and the God's-eye view of fictive art, Morrison brought the intimate evil of slavery...
What Oprah wants, Oprah gets. She has, after all, earned an Oscar nomination for her first movie part, in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. For more than a decade she has dominated the afternoon airwaves with her syndicated talk show. She is among the nation's most admired and...
Now imagine how Jerry Springer would herald her performance: Oprah makes love with a naked Danny Glover! Oprah squats and urinates! Oprah as Sethe: Victim or murderer? The story is based on the true case of Margaret Garner, a renegade slave who tried to kill her children rather than allow...
Ohio, 1873, eight years after the Civil War, 18 years after Sethe ran away from the Sweet Home plantation. She had been defiled by the master's sons, then beaten so artistically that her back remains latticed with scars. Now Sethe lives with her teenage daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) at...