Oprah tops power list

Top 10 power list
1. Oprah Winfrey
2. Tiger Woods
3. Angelina Jolie
4. Beyoncé Knowles
5. David Beckham
6. Johnny Depp
7. Jay-Z
8. The Police
9. J.K. Rowling
10. Brad Pitt
美国《福布斯》杂志近日揭晓了本年度“100名最具权势名人榜”，美国脱口秀女王奥普拉·温弗莉连续第二年坐上头把交椅。奥普拉在过去一年中的收入高达2.75亿美元，在所有上榜者中排名第二，她的网络点击排名同样位居第二，凭借更胜一筹的综合实力，奥普拉成功卫冕，这也是她第五次摘得该榜单的头名。
American talk show diva Oprah Winfrey was ranked the world's most powerful celebrity for the second year running in a new survey published by Forbes magazine in June.
The Celebrity 100 ranking is based on income over the past year as well as web references, press clippings, broadcast mentions and major magazine covers devoted to the celebrity, Forbes said on its website.
Despite weakening television ratings and magazine circulation, Ms. Winfrey, the 54-year-old high priestess of U.S. daytime television, earned $275 million before taxes in the past 12 months and remains one of the world’s most famous faces.
Early life
Oprah Gail Winfrey, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American television host, media mogul and philanthropist. Born in rural Mississippi to a poor unwed teenaged mother and later raised in an inner city Milwaukee neighborhood, Ms. Winfrey was raped at the age of nine; at fourteen she gave birth to a son who died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Ms. Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. In 1976 she moved to Baltimore to join WJZ-TV news as a co-anchor and in 1978 discovered her talent for hosting talk shows when she became co-host of WJZ-TV's "People Are Talking."
″The Oprah Winfrey Show″
In 1984 she moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's "AM Chicago," a faltering local talk show. In less than a year she turned "AM Chicago" into the hottest show in town. The format was soon expanded to one hour, and in September 1985 it was renamed the “Oprah Winfrey Show."
Nationally broadcast since 1986, "Oprah" became the number one talk show in national syndication in less than a year. In June 1987, in its first year of eligibility, "Oprah" received three Daytime Emmy awards in the categories of Outstanding Host, Outstanding Talk/Service Program and Outstanding Direction. In June 1988, the show received its second consecutive Daytime Emmy award as Outstanding Talk/Service Program and she herself received the International Radio and Television Society's "Broadcaster of the Year" award. She was the youngest person and only the fifth woman ever to receive the honor in IRTS's 25-year history.
Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claimed broke 20th century taboos and allowed gays, transsexuals, and transgender people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing a confessional culture and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others.
International influence
Besides her internationally syndicated talk show, Ms. Winfrey is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. She has been hailed as arguably the most influential woman in the world. Oprah Winfrey certainly has power, but she also has purpose -- an abiding commitment to the principles of goodness and generosity.
Time magazine wrote, "Few people would have bet on Oprah Winfrey's swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of ample bulk. As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue ...What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye ... They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience. It is the talk show as a group therapy session."
Ms. Winfrey recently made a deal to extend her show until the 2010-2011 season, extending its run on the air to twenty-five years. She plans to host 140 episodes per season until her final season, when it will return to its current number of 130.

Good week for
Faye Wong
王菲获评亚洲最性感素食者
Chinese singer and actress Faye Wong was named Asia's sexiest vegetarian woman in a poll run by animal rights group PETA last week.
Ms. Wong, often called the "heavenly queen" or the "diva of Asia," beat last year's winner Maggie Q, star of Mission: Impossible III, in the vote organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Bad week for
Amy Winehouse
英国“毒后”家中昏厥
British singer Amy Winehouse could be hospitalized for weeks in a bid to kick drugs. The troubled singer's family are reportedly set to do "whatever it takes" to get Ms. Winehouse clean and she may even be detained without her permission.
The 24-year-old star has been in the hospital since last week after collapsing at home. Her worried relatives are hoping the medical drama will shock the singer into quitting drugs.
Vocabulary
diva 歌剧女主角mogul 大亨
philanthropist 慈善家
faltering 摇摇欲坠的
syndication 企业联合组织
eligibility 合格intimate 亲密的
unleash 释放rouse 激发