Oprah Winfrey has traversed remarkable milestones since landing her breakthrough as a news anchor on WLS-TV’s poorly-rated half-hour morning show, AM Chicago. With a multi-billion-dollar net worth and a flourishing media empire to boot, the now 69-year-old is the pinnacle of Hollywood stardom. That said, the media mogul’s journey to the top has not been without its headwinds. Back in the 1980s, while trying to land her big-screen breakthrough as Sofia in The Color Purple, the media mogul battled such crippling self-doubt, she actually joined a fat farm to lose weight for the film. Read More...
“You’ve really got to check out Cumbia,” Joe Strummer insisted, his intense stare burning a hole through me after one too many pints.
“Cumbia?” I wondered. “What the hell is Cumbia?” I didn’t dare ask, but in those pre-internet days, I didn’t even know where to look, or if I’d even heard Strummer right. In some of our first meetings, already almost a decade before, he’d turned me on to everything from Charlie Parker and Woody Guthrie to dub reggae, but that music was relatively easy to find in my local record stores and library. Read More...
Crosswords with Friends February 15 2023 Those who think they're better than others General knowledge plays a crucial role in solving crosswords, especially the Those who think they're better than others crossword clue which has appeared on February 15 2023 Crosswords with Friends puzzle. The answer we have shared for Those who think they're better than others has a total of 5 letters but also has other possible answers listed below the main one. Read More...