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...popular culture this year have emanated from a single corporation, and no, it's not Microsoft. It's Disney. Most people recognize that The Lion King, a huge artistic and commercial success on Broadway, is a Disney product, But fewer are aware that the upcoming film version of Beloved, Toni Morrison's celebrated novel, was financed with Disney money, or that Tina Brown, late of The New Yorker, recently made a development deal with Miramax, which is owned by--you guessed it--Disney...
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...
However it is slimmed down, and although its conclusion holds more hope than the book's, the movie is certainly Morrison. Says Demme: "Almost everything, every line of dialogue, every article of clothing, every detail we shamelessly took from the book to put in the movie. If Toni Morrison said black dress, it was going to be a black dress. We were slavish," he adds, without apparent irony. The film is also attentive to the change of seasons in the year of the story's life; the surrounding woods and streams are limned in lustrous imagery. But the whole picture...
...both of these things, and it was great theater every day watching her do it. There were times when Oprah the person would be so overwhelmed with compassion and empathy for Sethe the character that her emotions would take her far away from where Sethe needed to be. As Toni Morrison told me, 'Remember, Jonathan, Oprah cries. Sethe doesn...
Supermodels and Nobel prizewinners tend to travel in separate circles, but at a recent party held in honor of Oprah Winfrey in downtown Manhattan, both Toni Morrison and Cindy Crawford were in attendance. The gathering, held at a restaurant where it's difficult to get a reservation unless you call long in advance or are a recent recipient of an MTV Video Music Award, was a starry one. Mariah Carey. Barbara Walters. Maya Angelou. They were all there. Oprah worked the room, shining attention on each guest briefly but brightly, a passing Lexus with her high beams on. The occasion...