LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Some 25 years after "the oprah winfrey Show" made its debut, the day of game changing smash ends as talk legend reflects candidly on his legacy, how it makes decisions and why his voice used to be higher.
THR: How strategic were you get (show) to work so fast?
Oprah: If I ever write a book, people would be surprised at how na?ve and unsophisticated, I was. Back in the beginning of the 1990s, I saw an article in USA Today where Larry King said that he wanted, he was my publicist. I laughed because my publicist was the intern on "AM Chicago." I asked, it would help me with mail? I was going to pay her $1 per letter, and then I started to do so much mail, I couldn't pay him more. She said: "Well, I can be your publicist." We would get all these offers magazines, and she would say: "Good Housekeeping called." My mom says you should do so because they have the stamp of approval. ?
THR: What was the greatest challenge of launch of the show?
Oprah: We have tried and tried to make the stars, and nobody would come. It's like, "who are you?". People said, "" Ofrie Okrah, what? "" My real name is Orpa. Thank God who got screwed. It is just a horrible sound, "Orpah." The first show featured an unknown woman which you guaranteed to find the ideal partner. People immediately responded to the message we tried to make. I was recently looking for the band, and in that first five minutes I indicates what is intended. I say, "we wanted to do the show for you, because we wanted you to know that you are not alone". All the things I considered the show to be reached.
THR: Is there a guest that stands out the most?
My favourite is a woman named Tererai Trent. She was born in the Zimbabwe in a village and was 11 years old, married and has three children at the time she was 18 and had buried his dream in a box of preserved under a rock. The dream was to come to America and to learn, and she recently completed her PhD last year. For me, this story expresses hope and perseverance - never give up believing in yourself. It symbolizes and embodies everything that I have tried to say on this show for 25 years.
THR: When did you first of all to the end of the show?
Oprah: I started to think to ending with the 20th year because I have hung in numbers; It is a bit toc. I like always even numbers and strong, because I grew up with a father who would say, when I asked, "can I have a sum of money." He will say, "sorry, my money is of the not even". So I began to think seriously for the 20th anniversary. And then Mattie Stepanek, a boy of 12 years of muscular dystrophy, sent me a letter from his hospital bed to give me all the reasons why I should wait until 25. It has a huge influence on me. ?
THR: You feel emotional now that the spectacle of the end?
Oprah: I keep asking, "is there something wrong with me that I am not only emotional." Everybody around me for the past 20 performances was so emotional. I had a time favorite unprecedented emotional after my last real concert the other day with my guests. I am emotional I feel a sense of relief and completion this effort was well done. I feel really well on this subject. I have not a single regret.
THR: Not even to have James Frey as a guest, when you have learned later that he embellished his memoirs, "A Million pieces?"
Oprah: Eckhart Tolle changed my thinking about what is the ego. It is transforming to life. I could call Frey and apologize.
THR: You said that you have no regrets. What problems that occurred at your school in South Africa, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls?
Oprah: I regret that I take the time to build the infrastructure of first. But I learned a big lesson from that: schools are not subject of bricks and mortar. It is not useful to rush to come without the infrastructure in place. You are nowhere without leadership fort.
THR: Which, what is your position by replacing the former own CEO Christina Norman?
Oprah: Peter Liguori, who is the head of the operation of all discovery channels, is acting Director General. I'll take my time and find the person or persons - I am now thinking that it is not only a person - who are the best in alignment with the vision we want to grow. One of the lessons I learned from my school is that the same person, it takes to build a school is not the same person on the school. I am extremely grateful to Christina and his sacrifice for obtaining launched. We are now in the next step.
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