An emotional and proud Oprah Winfrey celebrated the first graduating class of The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa on Saturday.
One hundred percent of the graduates have been accepted to college or university, and more than a dozen have received full scholarships.
"The pride that I feel today is overpowering," Winfrey told her guests, who included the students, their parents and relatives. "I have been on a mission my whole life...
One hundred percent of the graduates have been accepted to college or university, and more than a dozen have received full scholarships.
"The pride that I feel today is overpowering," Winfrey told her guests, who included the students, their parents and relatives. "I have been on a mission my whole life...
- 1/14/2012
- Extra
Details of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" finale have been revealed. According to reports, the last episode which was taped on Tuesday, May 24 features no one as a guest. Instead of welcoming celebrities like the two star-studded farewell episodes, the finale will see Oprah Winfrey sharing her life lessons she has learned while hosting the show.
"It was just her the whole time, a recap of what she believed in, what we've given her as viewers and what she hopes she has given us," said Nancy Evankoe who went to the taping in Chicago. "This is my love letter to you," Oprah allegedly told the audience.
There was reportedly a single chair on the stage, but Oprah stood most of the time. Among the audience were Maria Shriver, Suze Orman, Tyler Perry, Bob Greene, Gayle King, Stedman Graham and her fourth grade teacher Mrs. Mary Duncan, but no one was said joining her on the stage.
"It was just her the whole time, a recap of what she believed in, what we've given her as viewers and what she hopes she has given us," said Nancy Evankoe who went to the taping in Chicago. "This is my love letter to you," Oprah allegedly told the audience.
There was reportedly a single chair on the stage, but Oprah stood most of the time. Among the audience were Maria Shriver, Suze Orman, Tyler Perry, Bob Greene, Gayle King, Stedman Graham and her fourth grade teacher Mrs. Mary Duncan, but no one was said joining her on the stage.
- 5/25/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
(Fw Murnau, 1929, U, Eureka)
The great German director Fw Murnau made three silent movies for Fox in Hollywood before co-directing his only sound film, Tabu, with the documentarist Robert Flaherty, and dying in 1931 aged 42. His first Hollywood silent, Sunrise, is universally acclaimed; the second one, Four Devils, no longer exists; and the third, City Girl, was for years known only through a re-edited, semi-sound version which Murnau disowned. The silent City Girl is a lyrical masterwork of pastoral realism, in which Lem, a simple farm boy from Minnesota (Charles Farrell), in Chicago to sell the family's wheat crop, meets and marries Kate (Mary Duncan), a waitress yearning for an idyllic life in the countryside. When they return to Minnesota, however, they're met with hostility by coarse, lascivious harvesters and Lem's overbearing father. It is a rural melodrama of great beauty and honesty, the inspiration for Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven...
The great German director Fw Murnau made three silent movies for Fox in Hollywood before co-directing his only sound film, Tabu, with the documentarist Robert Flaherty, and dying in 1931 aged 42. His first Hollywood silent, Sunrise, is universally acclaimed; the second one, Four Devils, no longer exists; and the third, City Girl, was for years known only through a re-edited, semi-sound version which Murnau disowned. The silent City Girl is a lyrical masterwork of pastoral realism, in which Lem, a simple farm boy from Minnesota (Charles Farrell), in Chicago to sell the family's wheat crop, meets and marries Kate (Mary Duncan), a waitress yearning for an idyllic life in the countryside. When they return to Minnesota, however, they're met with hostility by coarse, lascivious harvesters and Lem's overbearing father. It is a rural melodrama of great beauty and honesty, the inspiration for Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven...
- 5/21/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
F.W. Murnau followed up his masterpiece Sunrise with this pastoral drama set in the wheat fields of Minnesota. Starring Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell it's nowhere near as iconic but City Girl holds its own rewards including a beautiful performance from Duncan as the displaced ‘city girl’ battling her cowardly husband and his tyrannical father.
Given Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is such an undisputed classic motion picture it is easy to see why City Girl is perhaps not as burned into the cultural memory as it should be. Several themes and ideas are shared between the two features but City Girl plays them out differently.
Originally titled Our Daily Bread the story follows young farmer Lem (Charles Farrell) on a trip to Chicago. He’s tasked with selling the wheat crop at a decent price but once he’s ensconced in the big smoke he discovers the love...
Given Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is such an undisputed classic motion picture it is easy to see why City Girl is perhaps not as burned into the cultural memory as it should be. Several themes and ideas are shared between the two features but City Girl plays them out differently.
Originally titled Our Daily Bread the story follows young farmer Lem (Charles Farrell) on a trip to Chicago. He’s tasked with selling the wheat crop at a decent price but once he’s ensconced in the big smoke he discovers the love...
- 4/6/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
The 25th and final season premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is today, and the queen of talk is going bigger and better!
On today's show, Oprah managed to top any giveaway she's ever done -- 300 members of her studio audience received an eight-day trip to Australia in December.
Winfrey, who has never taken her show outside of the Us, said she plans to film at least two episodes in Australia.
"Extra" has compiled a list of 25 Unforgettable "Oprah" Moments.
On today's show, Oprah managed to top any giveaway she's ever done -- 300 members of her studio audience received an eight-day trip to Australia in December.
Winfrey, who has never taken her show outside of the Us, said she plans to film at least two episodes in Australia.
"Extra" has compiled a list of 25 Unforgettable "Oprah" Moments.
- 9/13/2010
- Extra
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