check it out. >> my name is oprah winfrey. oprah, o-p-r-a-h, harpo spelled backwards.y folks didn't particularly like harpo marks. we didn't even have a television set for years. i was originally named from the bible, first chapter of the 14th verse but no one knew how to spell in my home, so that's why i ended up being oprah. >> her voice is different. >> yes. >> very interesting to hear, right? >> en her delivery. >> i wonder how old she was then. >> well, 1983, they say. i remember pretty well because i started working with regis in 1985. and so oprah was doing her chicago show and one day -- regis and i were local at the same in new york and it was an hour and a half show, monday through friday. they came us to and said, you guys mind giving up half of -- one-third of your show, half an hour because there is a new woman in chicago that's just got this -- >> named oprah? >> we said, yeah. >> you made room for oprah. >> no, no. they said they were going to take it from us, but it was nice of them to ask. about a year later, it was syndicated. >> that's very cool, tho

brought to you by oprah winfrey and steven spielberg. >> i hope that people who love the idea of great food, celebrating connections and friendship will come out and watch it. >> reporter: steven, you mention that, for you, it's a fusion between two cultures. >> it takes a second to sit down and share a meal. when you share a meal, you know usually, if it's a good meal, it puts a smile on your face. >> reporter: it is a reunion nearly 30 years in the making. >> we've been looking for something to do for years. >> reporter: spielberg and oprah, working for the first time since oprah's performance in "the color purple" in 1985. >> one day, i was going to get to come home. >> reporter: now, they are producing partners for a new film called "the hundred-foot journey," starring helen mirren. >> if your food is like your music, i suggest you turn it down. >> i will turn it down. but i will turn the heat up. >> it's about two families. and the funniest part of the movie is the competition. these two restaurants are literally 100 feet away from them. >> reporter: mirren runs one of the finest

oprah winfrey and steven spielberg working together again for decades.ilm may be. it's wednesday, august 6th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i'm reena ninan. >> i'm devin dwyer. >> that oprah and steven spielberg -- >> opens this weekend. the first time they've been reunited since the '70s, since "the color purple". >> a heart-warming show of food, fun, right up oprah's alley. >>> we have incredible news out of times square. something that could have been more dramatic and tragic. it was a crash in the heart of times square. two double-decker tour buses colliding. >> here's a look at the scene from earth cam. look to the left as a light pole crashes to the ground. 15 people injured, most under that light pole. hundreds of others watch in horror. abc's ryan smith has more. >> reporter: chaos in the beating heart of new york city. times square, right by the famous broadway ticket booth. >> and then i started screaming. >> reporter: a blue-double decker tour bus crashing into another double-decker tour bus which smashed into a lam

. >> superstar reunion, oprah winfrey and steven spielberg working atogether again for the first timer something to do for year. >> they're sharing a secret with us as we got a glimpse of what their blockbuster film may be. it's wednesday, august 6th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm devin dwyer. boy, oprah and spielberg show, looks quite good actually. >> would love to see it. opens this weeken. the first time reunited since the '70s since "the color purple." >> heart warming tale, food, family, friend. right up oprah's alley. should be good. >> can't wait. incredible news out of times square, something that could have been dramatic and tragic. it was a crash in the heart of times square. two double-decker tour buses colliding at a busy intersection, packed with tourists and shoppers. >> a look at the scene from earth cam. look at the left as a light pole crashes to the ground. 15 people injured. most under the light pole. hundreds of others watching in horror. abc's ryan smith has more. >> reporter: chaos in the

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i don't understand what they say about it, but i'm honored that bill gates, oprah winfrey, all of those famous people. >> palestinians with their own take on the ice bucket challenge. he is particularly glad to have man.upport of this the singer from gaza is a star across the arab world. i saw the suffering in gaza at first hand in 2008 and 2012. the suffering is great. this reality has left so many friends and relatives in the rubble. dislike the thought, he did forget one thing. the region, about three dozen united nations peacekeepers in the golan heights on the border between israel and syria have been rescued after being surrounded by days by islamist militants. other u.n. soldiers are under attack by the al-nusra front. peacekeepers in fiji taken captive on thursday are still being held by militants. a u.n. spokesman says they are safe. peacekeepers have been monitoring the cease-fire line sincen: heights and syria 1974. the latest results from the soccer german bundesliga. have been inern action. new signing for alonso, held to a 1-0 draw by schalke. earlier in the day, petter bo

michelle obama, oprah winfrey, so many african-americans have experienced that when you are not necessarily trying to have the street lingo in the business world. >> guest: there are limits to the government benevolence and they must help. >> host: so you are talking self responsibility. >> guest: getting the culture in order i think those are the things that need to take place. they need to develop the type of attitudes and habits and behaviors other groups in america had to develop. it does more harm than good. >> host: when does the political structure get in the way? because you have the republicans here, democrats here, they are not coming together and the question is you have groups of people that are in need and there is fighting off looking at the groups of people, but yet -- >> guest: i don't know that there's a political solution to what i'm talking about other than encouraging the government to get out of the way to stop doing some of the things it's doing. when you block them from attending the schools or better public schools you are not helping beas matters and that is what th

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michelle obama, oprah winfrey, so many african-americans have experienced that when you are not necessarily trying to have the street lingo in the business world. >> guest: there are limits to the government benevolence and they must help. >> host: so you are talking self responsibility. >> guest: getting the culture in order i think those are the things that need to take place. they need to develop the type of attitudes and habits and behaviors other groups in america had to develop. it does more harm than good. >> host: when does the political structure get in the way? because you have the republicans here, democrats here, they are not coming together and the question is you have groups of people that are in need and there is fighting off looking at the groups of people, but yet -- >> guest: i don't know that there's a political solution to what i'm talking about other than encouraging the government to get out of the way to stop doing some of the things it's doing. when you block them from attending the schools or better public schools you are not helping beas matters and that is what th

in the case of mia and people like many here you bring up freedom fighters you know this is an oprah winfrey issue if i make. hard core issues they do with the belly of the beast of american society it's also. real liberation and what it means to have freedom in this country when you talk about. especially as it relates to the police and the brutal terrorist acts that happened against our community we don't talk about those acts in the same way but the exactly the same in two thousand dead prez but at the police state the lyrics say f.b.i. spying on the radio antennas and then hidden cameras in the street like watching society with no respect for the people's right to privacy i mean hell this is before nine eleven i mean what are your thoughts now looking back at how insanely huge the national security state has gone i think we were clear about america's agenda and much more things that they planned to make you fear however information is especially political or political education the more we know the more we are able to say ok we saw it coming out for plan and we see other. plans and agend

you bring up freedom fighters you know this is an oprah winfrey issue if i make. hard core issues they do with the belly of the beast of american society it's also. real liberation and what it means to have freedom in this country when you talk about. especially as it relates to the police and the brutal terrorist acts that happened against our community we don't talk about those acts in the same way but they are exactly the same in two thousand dead prez but at the police state the lyrics say f.b.i. spying on the radio antennas and then they didn't cameras in the street like watching society with no respect for the people's right to privacy i mean hell this is before nine eleven. i mean what are your thoughts now looking back at how insanely huge the national security state has gone i think we were clear about america's agenda and much more things that they planned to make you fear however information is especially political or political education the more we know the more we are able to say ok we saw a king alfred plan and we see other. plans and agendas that th

and 1990s saw another spurt of movies about slavery, steven spielberg's "am ma stastad" andy oprah winfrey and others and "django" "django unchained" and "12 years a slave." measuring 12 years of progress or lack thereof in the popular culture, hollywood in the 1930s was very much entrenched in the lost cause approaches to slavery. slaves are background figures, they are supporting casts, they are often mere comic relief who are gladly serving their masters and mistresses for the most part are very benign and well-meaning but also firm and authoritative. sometimes frustrated at the ineptitude of their slaves. think of scarlet and prissy for example. not much had changed by 1946 when walt disney took on uncle remiss in remis in "song of the south" and is banned or not distributed by walt disney in this country and there was controversy when it came out and shows us how sensitive race was in the post war era than 1930s. it took until the early '70s before it was ban. it was the early '70s walt disney finally gave in to pressure of its political incorrectness. what i have to use now is a vide

of the world's most famous designers dressing everybody from our first lady michelle obama to oprah winfreynd hollywood a-listers like naomi watson, amanda sayfried. >> and now he's back in the judge's seat scooping out hot new talent for the third season of the hit reality show "project runway." he's going to help you learn something that he does best. >> something brand new. >> which i cannot do. >> i'm so happy to meet you. i feel like i know you, but we never met before. welcome. it's your third season on "project runway." heidi was doing something weird with jimmy fallon last night. >> she was doing some sort of circular -- >> some sort of german thing. >> gerbil -- >> german thing. >> singing? >> do you remember when halle berry rolled with him on the ground -- >> yes. >> she did it german. >> heidi does surprising things. we sing all day on set. >> do you? >> how is it with heidi? is it so much fun? >> we have fun. she as hidden musical theater geek. >> she should do "glee." >> "les mis." >> we sing everything. sometimes "chorus line" when designers are standing up there. ♪ what i di

don't tell that to oprah winfrey.te at her plant's need watering. liz? what do you say to that? liz: lifestyles of the rich and parched according to political which broke the story. this is an area subject to wild fire in santa barbara, over 40 acre states. this is the most part section of central coastal california. is in danger. the area residents, the likes of ellen degeneres, jewish lucas, eric schmidt, you are getting water trucked in because they are paying a record amount of fine for overuse of water, $4 million in fines collected by the county. for over using water according to that. stuart: i have no problem with oprah winfrey paying out of her own pocket for the water that her garden needs. liz: her gotten but also there are restrictions on water usage and the county is threatening to shut the santa barbara holmes down if they of reuse water. stuart: of using municipal water. if you bring in your own with a tanker truck you are not breaking the rules. liz: a wild fire, she needs the water. stuart: if you hav

he will start alongside oprah winfrey, she will play his grandmother. nick cannon of america's got talent had campaigned openly for the role . >> matt damen to face that challenge and decided to use toward water. he says he did not want to waste clean water and the sites in many countries to low water is cleaner than drinking water. >> not in this country it isn't. >> he and the video by challenging george clooney, by ono and tom break. >> simple device to keep the airline seat from reclining in any new tyrannies got a couple passengers kicked off for fighting. >> a new air war has broken out in the space over your knees. >> and the defender is a device that keeps people decline in their seat in to your knees. >> you pope would announce to to haunt the plastic on the legs of your tree table to stop to see in front of you from going back. >> and you get your knees crunch. >> sometimes, i grin and bear it. >> no was grinning on a united flight from newark to denver that had to be diverted to chicago after flight brokfight broke out. when a female passenge

a lesser known film and beloved put on by oprah winfrey among others. in using these films as measures of racial progress or the lack there of, hollywood in the 1930s was very much entrenched in the lost cause approaches to slavery. slaves are background figures. they are supporting casts. they are often mere comic relief who, for the most part are very benign and well-meaning but also firm and authoritative. not much had changed by 19 46. it's at least distributed by water disney company. it designated considerable controversy when it came out. race had become by 1946 and the post-war era than it had been in the 1930s. it took until the early '70s before it was banned. disney finally gaifr in to political pressure. now is a video that was smuggled to me by a former student of mine who live ins japan where you can see it with japanese subcultures. and that works beautifully there to look at song of the south with japanese subtitles. the subtitles only appear when they sing. they can understand the spoken voice, but once the singing starts, they need sub

oprah winfrey and stephen spielburg have an unhealthy relationship with food.movie. that's the only thing to be wary of. >> charming. it's delightful. a little overcooked. >> oh. >> i think it was overcooked. it was almost perfect. but i left almost five pounds heavier. >> you have to eat before the movie. >> all right. switching gears "into the storm" this one seems to be going for a younger audience. just seeing the trailers, it blows you away with special effects. >> it is for teenagers, takes place in a high school. this movie is a ride. very con tribed, propostrouse, too serious, unintentionally funny. it's fun. the special effects are great. >> if i use the term, say "sharknado," am i close? >> "sharknado" meets twister. special effects are great. >> i was a nervous wreck after. i was like is there a tornado? where is it coming from. i thought it was nervenerve-rac. >> i thought it was exciting. it made me root for tornadoes. >> you kind of want the tornado -- >> would you bring a child to a movie like this? >> no. it's for teenagers. takes place in high

modern era with the 1990s with movies about slavery, stephen spielberg's "amastad" and one by oprah winfreyand others and "django unchained" and "12 years a slave." in using these films with students as measures of racial progress or the lack thereof in american popular culture, hollywood in the 1930s was very much entrenched in the lost cause approaches to slavery. slaves are background figures, they are supporting casts, they are often mere comic relief who are gladly serving their masters and mistresses for the most part are very benign and well-meaning but also firm and authoritative. sometimes frustrated at the ineptitude of their slaves. think of scarlet and prissy for example. not much had changed by 1946 when walt disney took on uncle remis in "song of the south" and is banned or not distributed by walt disney in this country and it generated considerable controversy when it came out. it shows how far or how sensitive race was in the post war era than 1930s. it took until the early '70s before it was banned. it was the early '70s walt disney finally gave in to pressure of its politi

up to this point oprah winfrey's career has been known as sophia in "the color purple."et's get hollyweird. >> the queen of daytime tv oprah winfrey is set to take her acting job to unchartered territory. the talk show legend has reportedly signed on to play richard pryor's grandmother, a cruel and abusive madam, as in legal in vegas madam. in the upcoming pryor pick, it stars the late comedian in the lee daniels directed film. he also directed "the butler" which oprah played a supporting role. >>> remember my lee cyrus's homeless friend jesse from sunday night's vmas. his mom tells the daily mail he's an aspiring model who went to l.a. to break into the industry. his appearance caught the attention of a lot of people including the cops in salem, oregon. turns out he has a warrant for a criminal mischief charge. way to go, sheriff miley. >>> speaking of miley, she was a part of what can only be described as the holly weirdest collection of celebrities when e said good-bye to chelsea handler on last night's series finale of "chelsea lately". ♪ she can't go on making every

number two, a modern day oprah winfrey gave out the swag with the left-hand. ose friend, president obama is officially a lefty. along with seven presidents from the right and the left including george h.w. bush and bill clinton. that's not me. i'm confused with him. that's kermit the frog. we're not sure if frogs have hands, sources confirm one of the origin muppets favor his left. don't ask him to waive it without help. number five, what do i have in common with oprah? i'm left-handed. producers probably can't tell by my handwriting. allow me to exit stage left. next on "newsnation." alex has the latest out of ferguson missouri. there's been another police-involved shooting. a former tonight show producer shares his behind the scenes stories about robin williams. son negatively impact good bacteria? even if you're healthy and active. phillips digestive health support is a duo-probiotic that helps supplement good bacteria found in two parts of your digestive tract. i'm doubly impressed! phillips' digestive health. a daily probiotic. while a body in motion tends

they should call it women who are only watching oprah winfrey for their news. foreign form to women. it's for women who care about what celebrities and people magazine have to say. so go for it. just stop taking the taxpayer dollars. raise your own money, stop taking it from the taxpayer. >> i got to go, penny. but i think you've got to take a page out of their playbook with humoring t-shirts. i mean, it would be nice to see t-shirts -- >> but it wasn't funny. >> it wasn't funny. but maybe you could come up with something with an arrow pointing to your head saying not aborted. that would be a great t-shirt i believe. >> okay. >> if you do that, i get 10%. >> i'll take that under advisement. >> if i have some free time over the weekend. penny, thank you so much. coming up next, how angly na joe lee and brad pitt finally made my dreams come true. stay tuned. latte or au lait? cozy or cool? exactly the way you want it ... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. right now, all beds are on sale. he's

. >> jimmy: and it's produced steven spielberg and oprah winfrey. >> yes, yes.y love oorpah in france. [ speaking in french ] >> jimmy: i love green jell-o. i always eat it everyday! [ laughter ] how is gayle? how is gayle? [ laughter ] they get all excited. they know oprah in france? >> who is gay-o? >> gayle -- gayle is her -- [ laughter ] >> oh, gayle. gayle. >> jimmy: yeah, gayle. gayle is her best friend. >> oh, is it? all right, okay. >> gay-o is the pantomime character i came up with. [ laughter ] every holiday, i bring him out. yeah, yeah. but they know who oprah is over there? >> yes, of course they do. i mean -- yes. i was quite surprised. >> jimmy: she's very american, you know. >> she's very american. but they -- absolutely. they were terribly excited when she arrived. i think she's like fairy godmother, oprah. i was thinking today, just today -- wouldn't she look fantastic all dressed up as the fairy godmother with the wings and everything? >> jimmy: yeah, she'd look gorgeous. >> she's like everybody's fairy godmother. and she arrives by helicopter,

oprah winfrey is going to have her bad-ass down here, and you are going to have your up the wall, andn a good way. >> but when threats don't work on police, father kury hits his boiling point. >> get this out of my face. >> sir, calm down or you're going to go to jail. >> i'm in jail! >> no you're not. you're in a holding cell. >> father kury's rant goes on for more than 20 minutes before police release him, and he is escorted home by his dad. and this is not father kury's first run-in with the law. according to police, this is the fourth time he has been arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. he plead guilty to a dwi charge in 1996, and he was found guilty of dwi charges in 2004 and 2007. in connection with the february 2011 charge, the court suspends father kury's license for 90 days. father kury pleads not guilty at his arraignment, and he has entered a rehab program while he awaits trial. according to a statement issued by the ukrainian catholic diocese, father kury has been relieved of his duties at his parrish church to allow him to devote a

they called this project women are watching they should call it women who are only watching oprah winfreyir news this, is about whoim care about what celebrities have to say. so, go for it. raise your own money, stop taking it from taxpayers. >> yes. i've got to go, penny, but i think you've got to take a page out of their playbook. i mean -- >> but that wasn't funny. >> yes. >> and you can maybe come up with something, an arrow saying not aborted? that would be a great tee shirt, i believe. if you do that, i get 10%. >> i take that under advisement. i'd love to design the next tee shirt. >> if i have free time over the weekend. >> coming up how angelina jolie and brad pitt finally made my dreams come true. stay tuned. ♪ it was the best day -[ laughing ] -yeah! ♪ it was the best day ♪ it was the best day yeah! ♪ it was the best day ♪ 'cause of you we make a great pair. -[echoing] great pair. -huh? progressive and the great outdoors! we make a great pair. right. totally. uh, that's what i was thinking. hmm. covering the things that make the outdoors great. now, that's progressive. call or

it's not rich limbaugh, it's not even oprah winfrey.s. >> did you give all of your staffers a copy of the disney biography last year? >> yes. >> why was that? >> orson welles and walt disney influenced me. i gave it to them because i wanted them to see where i was headed. i'm not headed towards edward r. murrow, i'm headed towards walt disn disney. >> does that mean theme park? >> no. >> people associate disney with that. >> yeah, no, disney was an innovator on everything. we went to space because of walt disney. you know, walt disney brought his an him in mater that did the seven dwarfs and said i have this nazi scientist that i need you to meet, warner von bran. the year is 1954 or '55. he said, he thinks we can put a man in space. i want you to tell that story. in 1955 just before he opens the park he does -- and he starts his tv show, "disneyland," he has a special called "man in space." the story goes that eisenhower called him up and said, walt, you son of a bitch, you did it. i've been trying to convince the people at the pentago

and at that time, oprah winfrey and don king and freddie mac and fannie mae, and all of these friends added their big gifts, and i can't name them all, but all of that meant that at that occasion we've got the commitment for the $5 million so the building could have the mortgage burned. and i think the thing that we see is that this is more than a building. it is a center that recognizes the contribution african-americans and african-american women have made, and it gives us a site from which to be of greater service. c-span: now, did you stay single all of your life? >> guest: yes. c-span: did you miss anything because of that, in your opinion? >> guest: i don't think so. i think that i have had a very rich life. i have had many friends. i have many -- i have a great extended family, and i have enjoyed it, and i have enjoyed it particularly seeing things change, but i have tried to work on. c-span: now, how old are you in this picture? >> guest: i was about 32, and i was -- that was a moment in my life when i was working for the ywca. c-span: living in new york city? >> guest: yes. c

michelle obama, oprah winfrey, so many african-americans have experienced that when you are not necessarily trying to have the street lingo in the business world. >> guest: there are limits to the government benevolence and they must help. >> host: so you are talking self responsibility. >> guest: getting the culture in order i think those are the things that need to take place. they need to develop the type of attitudes and habits and behaviors other groups in america had to develop. it does more harm than good. >> host: when does the political structure get in the way? because you have the republicans here, democrats here, they are not coming together and the question is you have groups of people that are in need and there is fighting off looking at the groups of people, but yet -- >> guest: i don't know that there's a political solution to what i'm talking about other than encouraging the government to get out of the way to stop doing some of the things it's doing. when you block them from attending the schools or better public schools you are not helping beas matters and that is what th

army combat veteran and host of "beyond belief" on the oprah winfrey network and columnist from the "shington post." welcome all. we've been talking a lot about the fallout from what the president said last week. what about his comments? do they matter if the strategy comes together? >> well, it matters a lot. i think what we're seeing here and everyone is pretty much describing, andrea, is a political model, foreign policy model they described earlier in the administration which was leading from behind. an idea that others would sort of coalesce and take the lead. i think we've seen that does not work. if you try to lead from behind, you are always playing catch up. clearly we're playing catch up in both the middle east right now and in ukraine. the problem when you do that is that your so-called partners begin to make deals on their own as michael leiter was just describing. egyptians and uae bombed libya on their own. one might say that's a positive development. but in the short-term if people start making deals only in their interest and not in the u.s. interest, the united states

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collect welfare checks and that one in the afternoon be standing outside, sleep late and watch oprah winfrey and dr. phil. you can't allow that. what does that say to the guy and gal he goes to work every day and worked three jobs and works their little butt off to afford their two children and not go on welfare? we are running this country have ass backwards. got to change it. >> i have a question for you regarding the income tax holiday. i love the idea and lower income tax rates in general but i'd like to your thoughts on the fair tax as an alternative. >> i love the fair tax. keep in mind i live in las vegas, nevada, and nevada have zero income tax and zero business tax but we have a sales tax. we get almost all the revenue from sales tax. let me interject something else. we could not have a 0% income tax if we did not legalize and tax gambling, marijuana and prostitution. a united states of america better start legalizing sin and taxing the hell out of it and then the rest of us get to pay less. for those who are moral majority members, i have to consider myself fairly religious, fairly

on the abuses only seen in brief flashbacks that are inflicted on the film's heroine, played by oprah winfrey, who when cornered by slave catchers in cincinnati murdered one of her own children and try to kill -- tried to kill another. based on the real-life case of margaret garner in 1856 in cincinnati. in this 1873 post-emancipation period, she continues to be haunted by an adolescent version of the infant girl that she murdered. she is also played by sandy newton. a clunky film, not a great film, but it is fascinating it was even made into a film. students read the novel and we watched parts of the film. then we come to "12 years a slave" and even "django unchained." part of what they do so well is feature female characters who take on as much or more abuse than their male counterparts. quentin tarantino has the most macho treatment of slavery ever put on film, at least since "mandingo," a combination of spaghetti western and racial revenge fantasy. as far-fetched and over-the-top as on many fronts, the plot is fueled by an attempt to rescue django's much tormented late wife, played by ker

talk shows -- it is out of this world that, say, oprah winfrey's show would grow. here's reddy with one of the most famous ones, a show in philadelphia, "mike douglas." smooth, pleasant man. reddy would go on these shows, talk about her life, talk a bit about what led to the song, she'd perform it, and what she had hoped would happen happened. that women viewers would hear this and then phoned the radio stations and say, why aren't you playing this song? i heard this incredible record, play it. well, the volume of calls is enough to gradually "i am woman" gets attention and it gets played and it takes off. because it's a very subtle song, actually. it does a couple of very interesting things. subtle song, actually. it does a couple of very interesting things. i am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore. and i know too much to go back and pretend cause i've heard it all before and i've been down there on the floor. no one's ever going to keep me down again. which is one of the most carefully modulated descriptions of the violence against women you're goin