Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goldberg's discussion, which mixed serious social commentary with her distinctive comic shtick, covered everything from abortion rights and spirituality to talk-show-host-turned-movie-star Oprah Winfrey and her new movie, Beloved...
...Roiphe and Serena Altschul do Coach, while Anne Klein has a whole "real people" campaign featuring the likes of Ann Richards, Faye Wattleton and Kim Polese. The cover girl for September's Vogue, the biggest issue of the year, was Renee Zellweger, and last month it was a superglamorous Oprah Winfrey. Even the last fashion-magazine holdout against celebrity covers, Glamour, this month features Halle Berry...
...rich. He's powerful. He's turning 28, and this week SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS, no fan of the small gesture, will throw himself a birthday bash of czarist proportions. To help produce a suitable invitation, he called upon such Puffy pals as Oprah Winfrey, CHRIS ROCK, Ben Stiller, ELLEN DEGENERES, SAMMY SOSA, Magic Johnson, Tommy Hilfiger, Will Smith, MARIAH CAREY and many others who no doubt saw the merit in assisting one of the decade's most successful music producers. The eclectic ensemble vamped for a videotape sent to Puffy's illustrious invites, revealing the party's date, time, suitable...
...Beloved, the highly-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, slavery is explored in a subtle, almost metaphorical fashion. It is an exercise in psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film. The screenplay grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast...
That may be why I wasn't moved more by the PBS series and Beloved, Oprah Winfrey's movie version of Toni Morrison's soul-searing novel. Both productions were excellent, but it's not exactly news that slavery was a horrible crime. I wish we could throw as much energy and emotion into solving the gritty racial problems that we face today as we pour into condemning the sins of the past...