Current:Home > ScamsNo, it's not your imagination, Oprah Winfrey is having a moment. Here's why. -AssetTrainer
No, it's not your imagination, Oprah Winfrey is having a moment. Here's why.
View
Date:2025-04-27 22:04:27
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! (35782)
Related
- Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
- Ukrainian officials say civilians were killed and wounded in Russian overnight attacks
- Venezuelans become largest nationality for illegal border crossings as September numbers surge
- Kenneth Chesebro, Trump co-defendant in Georgia 2020 election case, pleads guilty
- Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
- Connecticut postmaster admits to defrauding USPS through cash bribes and credit card schemes
- Gwen Stefani tears up during Blake Shelton's sweet speech: Pics from Walk of Fame ceremony
- Former MLB pitcher Danny Serafini arrested in connection with 2021 murder case
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- Murdaugh family home goes on sale for $1.95 million: Photos show Moselle Estate House
Ranking
- Opinion: Gianni Infantino, FIFA sell souls and 2034 World Cup for Saudi Arabia's billions
- At Cairo summit, even Arab leaders at peace with Israel expressed growing anger over the Gaza war
- A new graphic novel version of 'Watership Down' aims to temper darkness with hope
- 1 dead, 3 wounded in Arkansas shooting, police say
- San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
- Central America scrambles as the international community fails to find solution to record migration
- John Legend says he sees his father in himself as his family grows: I'm definitely my dad's son
- Tesla recall: Nearly 55,000 new-model vehicles affected by brake safety issue
Recommendation
Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
Jennifer Garner Shares How Reese Witherspoon Supported Her During Very Public, Very Hard Moment
India conducts space flight test ahead of planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025
ACTORS STRIKE PHOTOS: See images from the 100 days film and TV actors have been picketing
Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time
Chancellor Scholz voices outrage at antisemitic agitation in Germany ‘of all places’
Should USC and Ohio State be worried? Bold predictions for Week 8 in college football
Marine fatally shot at Camp Lejeune was 19 and from North Carolina, the base says