Chi uscì con Oprah Winfrey?

Oprah Gail Winfrey, nata Orpah Gail Winfrey (Kosciusko, 29 gennaio 1954), è una conduttrice televisiva, autrice televisiva, attrice, scrittrice, filantropa e imprenditrice statunitense.

Soprannominata negli Stati Uniti la "Regina di tutti i media", è considerata tra le donne più potenti al mondo ed è stata classificata come la persona afroamericana più ricca del XXI secolo. Il suo talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, andato in onda dal 1986 al 2011, è stato il programma più quotato del suo genere nella storia televisiva statunitense, proponendo interviste ad oltre 37.000 persone, vincendo 18 Emmy Award e facendo ottenere alla Winfrey il Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nel corso della carriera ha recitato e prodotto numerosi film e serie televisive, tra cui Il colore viola (1985), grazie a cui viene candidata ai Premi Oscar e ai Golden Globe, in The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca (2013), che le vale due nomine agli SAG Award e in Selma - La strada per la libertà (2014) ottenendo una seconda candidatura ai Premi Oscar. Nel 2011 le è stato conferito il Premio Oscar umanitario Jean Hersholt, e nel 2018 il Golden Globe alla carriera.

Dal 2008 è proprietaria di una rete televisiva on-demand, Oprah Winfrey Network, in partnership con Discovery Inc., distribuito in numerosi paesi, tra cui Stati Uniti, Canada, Australia, Regno Unito, Sudafrica e Russia, possiede una quota della multinazionale WW International, investendo inoltre nell'editoria, fondando il The Oprah Magazine, il marchio editoriale An Oprah Book, oltre ad aver co-scritto dieci libri autobiografici. Grazie a i suoi successi e investimenti ha un patrimonio stimato di 2,7 miliardi di dollari al 2020.

John Frank Tesh (Garden City, 9 luglio 1952) è un pianista, compositore e personaggio televisivo statunitense.

Roger Joseph Ebert ( EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America." Per The New York Times, "The force and grace of his opinions propelled film criticism into the mainstream of American culture. Not only did he advise moviegoers about what to see, but also how to think about what they saw."

Early in his career, Ebert co-wrote the Russ Meyer film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). Starting in 1975 and continuing for decades, Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped popularize nationally televised film reviewing when they co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews, followed by several variously named At the Movies programs on commercial TV broadcast syndication. The two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase "two thumbs up," used when both gave the same film a positive review. After Siskel died from a brain tumor in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, with Richard Roeper. In 1996, Ebert began publishing essays on great films of the past; the first hundred were published as The Great Movies. He published two more volumes, and a fourth was published posthumously. In 1999, he founded the Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois.

In 2002, Ebert was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands. He required treatment that included removing a section of his lower jaw in 2006, leaving him severely disfigured and unable to speak or eat normally. However, his ability to write remained unimpaired and he continued to publish frequently online and in print until his death in 2013. His RogerEbert.com website, launched in 2002, remains online as an archive of his published writings. Richard Corliss wrote, "Roger leaves a legacy of indefatigable connoisseurship in movies, literature, politics and, to quote the title of his 2011 autobiography, Life Itself." In 2014, Life Itself was adapted as a documentary of the same title, released to positive reviews.

Stedman Graham Jr. (born March 6, 1951) is an American businessman and author. He is the long-term partner of Oprah Winfrey.