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...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 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...
PLAYING THE QUEEN Aretha Franklin was asked last week what actress could play her in a film version of her life story. "Maybe Natalie Cole?" she mused. "Toni Braxton has a resemblance to me at a younger age. I love Vivica Fox...and I really love Brandy." On a scale of 1 to 10, here is how we rate that race...
Step down, William Clinton. The time has come. You are no longer America's favorite son. TONI FULLERTON Marbella, Spain...
BELOVED Jonathan Demme directs Toni Morrison's story of a former slave (Oprah Winfrey) and her brooding brood...
...Oprah 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...