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...Roots left her wanting. "While Roots was magnificent and necessary for its time," she says, "it showed what slavery looked like, rather than what it felt like. You don't know what the whippings really did to us." Then in 1987, she sat home one Saturday and read Toni Morrison's Beloved. "I was overwhelmed and stunned," she says. "I never felt that I'd ever touched that part of our history." That same evening, Winfrey reached Morrison by phone and--after some cajoling--convinced her that Beloved should be adapted for the screen...
BELOVED Jonathan Demme directs Toni Morrison's story of a former slave (Oprah Winfrey) and her brooding brood...
...Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat, who had met the talk-show queen while working as an extra on the set of Winfrey's forthcoming movie version of Toni Morrison's Beloved. "'Hi, it's Oprah!' I couldn't talk. I just got a little scared about what it all meant." One thing it meant: sales. Breath, Eyes, Memory shot to No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly paperback best-sellers list. There are now 600,000 copies in print...
...enough Morrison impersonators--crowd would look Elvis-heavy...
Last week the Rolling Stone Network reported that officials at Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, tired of picking up beer cans and condoms, have decided to disinter the remains of Jim Morrison, the late lead singer of the Doors, when the 30-year lease on his grave expires on July 6, 2001. This raises the question: Where should Jim go? Here are some suggestions...