Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oprah's book list. I loved it, and I applaud her efforts to bring a worthwhile literary masterpiece to life. But Beloved is a story, not another publicity vehicle for Oprah. She says she bought the rights to the book so she can tell the story of a runaway slave dealing with a past that refuses...
...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. Even Alex Haley's sweeping slave epic 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...
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 to life in the story of a mother's ultimate sacrifice. When Winfrey discovered the novel upon its publication in 1987, she was moved as a reader, as an African American, as a woman who suffered the death of the child she gave birth to when...
...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 them to be returned to the plantation from which she had escaped. In the novel, Sethe is pursued by the spirit of the one child, Beloved, who died at her hand. But the film is really about the things we do for love, about the fatal consequences of moral strength, about...
...headline find. Her Denver is alert both to the pain of being insufficiently loved and the frail promise life may hold for a young black woman after slavery. By the end of the film her posture has smartened, her smile is knowing; leaving the house, she becomes a freed slave, not unmindful of Sethe but unchained to her. If Beloved is to succeed with viewers, it will be in part because they recognize that the film belongs, eventually, to Elise; she is the hope that can rise from hurt. "Watching her was so gratifying," Morrison says. "Every time...