Oprah is putting The Color Purple on Broadway. Oprah was in the movie 20 years ago.
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Oprah won a Daytime Emmy award in 1998 for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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According to Time Magazine, Oprah was just five when she started school and was skipped to third grade at six. She could read at age two.
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Oprah co-founded the women's cable television network Oxygen.
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Oprah is the president of Harpo Productions (Oprah spelled backwards).
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Oprah was molested as a child, and recently began a campaign to catch sexual predators.
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Oprah had a baby boy when she was only 14 years old. However the baby died about two weeks later because he was two months premature.
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Oprah's name was supposed to be Orpah, however, it was spelled incorrectly on her birth certificate.
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Oprah has a famous book club; she's made reading popular again by noting well-written books on her show.
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Tom Cruise and John Travolta have asked Oprah to convert to Scientology, but she has responded that she simply isn't interested.
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In an episode of her show, always generous Oprah gave free cars to everyone in the studio audience.
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Oprah is the first African-American billionaire in American history.
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Oprah recently announced (September 2008) that she will not have GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin as a guest on her show.
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Supports Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
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