CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey gave to the world of poets and politicians, actors a list and musicians and subjects of talk-show which defined and reflect American culture of 25 years.
As the "the oprah winfrey Show" ends, with 16 episodes left of May 4, his millions of fans around the world are waiting to see how it will close a show that has designed a media empire.
Winfrey producers plan a constellation of stars, double registration on 17 may at United Center in Chicago. The shows will be released on May 23 and 24, as episodes of second and third to the last of Winfrey.
The show is dubbed "Surprise oprah!" A spectacular farewell. "Winfrey hate surprises, producers say, but she agreed to this event.
But for fans, the questions remain.
Who will be at the United Center, this Tuesday evening? That will be retransmitted by satellite or deliver a message of farewell registered?
Winfrey has a stable of friends of celebrities who appeared several times on his talk show. John Travolta. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Jennifer Aniston. Chris Rock.
Could the Black Eyed Peas perform, as they did when Winfrey stopped Michigan Avenue in Chicago in 2009?
Then there's the Presidents and world leaders: Bill Clinton. George Bush w.; Nelson Mandela. The President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have already appeared on a special program broadcast Monday.
And Winfrey has other very respected friends that might be possibilities: Maya Angelou; Sidney Poitier; Barbara Walters. Not to mention the protégés of Winfrey, who promoted it to their own celebrity of television, such as Mehmet Oz, Phil McGraw and Nate Berkus.
Kelly Brittain, a mother of 41 years three and Assistant Professor at East Lansing, Michigan, looked Winfrey for decades. In 2000, she participated in a record on the phenomenal graduates. Audience members received mortar caps; Brittain hers stores in a box of memories.
"Somehow, I know that the producers, they will absolutely"wow"she," Brittain said.
There for a major cultural event, he would have said Bill Carroll, an expert on the daytime television for the Katz television market in New York.
"It will be top-of-the-top of someone who is available to go to Chicago, that day," said Carroll. "It will be spoken and talked and looked and talked about."
Harpo Productions has received more than 154,000 of seats in the event ticket - the capacity of the United Center is about 20 000 people. There was a lottery for seats.
"For a national and international public, which is a small number,"said Marianne Jennings, a professor at Arizona State University, who did research on the industry of the ticket for decades."
Tickets for the Chicago record could be even more coveted that the seats for the Super Bowl or world series, said.
"This is a unique event," said Jennings. "It is something that we seized on this subject.". It is something about being there with the crowd, be there for the story. ?
History of talk-show Winfrey is small: 30 000 guests, 4 500 episodes, and 283 items named her "favorite things" in the famous annual giveaway.
But there is still a more important question: what will be Winfrey for the final may 25? Harpo does not speak, nor is the Queen of talk show.
Experts suggest that the eruption of the Chicago celebrity means that the final will be in studio Winfrey for quieter, more intimate occasion, perhaps even without an audience.
"If I were a visualizer for a long time, I would want the show to put an end to a place where I am more comfortable with it and more familiar," said Janice Peck, author of "" the age of Oprah: cultural icon for the neoliberal era. ""
Viewers are looking for a sincere connection after having daily interaction with Winfrey for 25 years, said Peck.
"Long time fans will feel cheated if it does not honor in a way that history," Peck said. "They want to be crying." They want to feel something, some powerful emotional departure. ?
Samantha Howsare, 22, of Pittsburgh, who watched Winfrey since she can remember and named his goldfish "oprah" when she was 3, stated that she does not know that Winfrey could interview or that could give Winfrey away to make it worthy of the final.
"I don't want to feel that it will be on tomorrow," said Howsare. "I don't want it to be minimized in any way and if she played until it is the last episode right, then it would get many people to cry, and it would be a good thing.".
A model to consider would be final episode of Johnny Carson as host of "the tonight Show" in 1992, said Carroll: there are no guests and after his traditional monologue Carson showed a montage of past performances.
"For the greater part of the end of the show he sat on a stool and only directly talked to people at home", said Carroll. "That was so class for it."
Brittain is among fans who hope that Winfrey will remain on television, thinking that there may be a promise of an annual Oprah Winfrey special or other appearances.
"What TV would be without Oprah on radar?" Brittain said. "It is difficult to understand." Now used this source of global inspiration, infinite possibilities of the impossible? ?
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