Current:Home > StocksNo, it's not your imagination, Oprah Winfrey is having a moment. Here's why. -ProfitPioneers Hub
No, it's not your imagination, Oprah Winfrey is having a moment. Here's why.
View
Date:2025-04-19 00:09:30
Everything's coming up Oprah.
Oprah Winfrey's turning 70 next month, though it seems the A-list author/actress/filmmaker/mogul/pop-culture queen is celebrating early by appearing all over the place: in art galleries, on talk shows, in movie theaters and in magazine cover stories. She's getting more pub these days than Santa.
Winfrey's a cultural institution whose resume speaks for itself, from "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to Oprah's Book Club to hundreds of millions donated to charities. And in case anyone's wondering, she's still wearing a whole lot of purple – a "seminal" color in her life, she says, dating back to her Oscar-nominated role in Steven Spielberg's 1985 drama "The Color Purple" – and living up to a poem that Maya Angelou wrote for her on Winfrey's 50th birthday: "To continue to astonish a mean world with my acts of kindness and continue to live in the space of gratitude and move and have my being in all of that which is God."
Here's where Oprah's been lately:
Oprah snagged a painting in the National Portrait Gallery
A portrait of Winfrey now hangs in the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C., alongside the likes of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama and many others. Unveiled earlier this month and display until October 2024, the painting shows Winfrey standing in her Montecito, California, prayer garden and holding an olive branch.
"The garden is just as important as her portrait because it's her most vulnerable space," artist Shawn Michael Warren told USA TODAY. (He also co-created a mural featuring Winfrey in Chicago's West Loop.) "And to get that version of her really played a significant role in capturing a portrait of her and capturing her essence, too."
Oprah Winfrey:The superstar dons purple gown for Smithsonian portrait unveiling
Oprah's opening a new movie musical take on 'The Color Purple'
Alongside Spielberg, Winfrey is a producer on the upcoming film (in theaters Dec. 25), based on the Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's 1982 novel. Two of the film’s stars, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks, were in the stage version for a year in 2015 and reprise their roles. (They both also snagged Golden Globe nominations last week.)
In April, Winfrey unveiled the first footage from "Color Purple" at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. Her role as Sofia (played by Brooks in the new movie) in Spielberg’s version was her film debut and “the biggest and most important thing that had ever happened to me and still is," Winfrey said. "It holds great personal meaning.”
Oprah Winfrey:Why her revelation about using weight-loss drugs is a game-changer
Oprah turned up on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'
Decked out in purple (obviously), Winfrey crashed "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and surprised Colbert's audience with tickets to the new "Color Purple," garnering a standing ovation. But Winfrey got more personal when promoting the film in a People cover story.
Oprah talked weight-loss medication, romance with Stedman Graham
Winfrey opened up about using weight-loss medications ("The fact that there's a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption"), making "hot water cornbread" for longtime partner Stedman Graham and when she's going to retire – which doesn't sounds like it's happening anytime soon. "I will never be done until my last breath is done," she said. "And whenever that happens it will be a peaceful breath."
Contributing: David Oliver
veryGood! (6)
Related
- FACT FOCUS: Inspector general’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup
- Texas man dies, woman injured by electrocution in hot tub at Mexico resort
- Nonprofit offers Indian women cash, other assistance to deal with effects of extreme heat
- A Virginia school board restored Confederate names. Now the NAACP is suing.
- Judge says Mexican ex-official tried to bribe inmates in a bid for new US drug trial
- Trevor Lawrence agrees to $275 million extension with Jacksonville Jaguars
- Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot
- Judge temporarily blocks expanded Title IX LGBTQ student protections in 4 states
- The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text on the rise. What to know.
- Michigan coach fired, facing charges after video shows him choking teen at middle school
Ranking
- 'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
- Biden, Meloni meet on sidelines of G7 summit but one notable matter wasn’t on the table: abortion
- Kansas governor and GOP leaders say they have a deal on tax cuts to end 2 years of stalemate
- Virginia's Lake Anna being tested after swimmers report E. coli infections, hospitalizations
- 'Most Whopper
- Bebe Rexha calls G-Eazy an 'ungrateful loser', claims he mistreated her post-collaboration
- FAA probing suspect titanium parts used in some Boeing and Airbus jets
- Army Corps finds soil contaminated under some St. Louis-area homes, but no health risk
Recommendation
Vance jokes he’s checking out his future VP plane while overlapping with Harris at Wisconsin airport
Peloton instructor Kendall Toole announces departure: 'See you in the next adventure'
Deadliest Catch Star Nick Mavar Dead at 59 in Medical Emergency
Stock market today: Asian shares mixed after AI hopes nudge Wall St to records. BOJ stands pat
Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
Dogs’ digs at the Garden: Westminster show returning to Madison Square Garden next year
Indian doctor says he found part of a human finger in his ice cream cone