h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

her title like Miss UK or Miss Ireland.

Yes, but is it a beauty pageant?

Here's the answer to the "talkingest" thing, everybody.

"[People] would say to my grandmother, 'Hattie Mae, this child sure can talk. She is the talkingest child," Winfrey tells CNN. "I received my sense of value, my sense of esteem, my sense of who I was, my sense of well-being, from speaking out loud."

That's a quote from www.people.com.

So that should be phrased:


[People] would say to my grandmother, 'Hattie Mae, this child sure can talk. She is the talkingest child'. I received my sense of value, my sense of esteem, my sense of who I was, my sense of well-being, from speaking out loud.
- Opray Winfrey

Here's a page about a girl who won the "Miss Fire Prevention" title:

http://www.pocomokefire.com/missFirePrevention.htm

It doesn't seem to be a beauty pageant to me, it is awarded for being a Fire Prevention Officer.

Gnomon

I've found two entries that support the fact that Miss Fire Prevention was a contest

http://www.people.com/people/oprah_winfrey
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/win0int-3

That second link makes it clear that it was a beauty pageant, despite the name. So you might like to put it in a note saying that.

I suggest

... she was crowned Miss Fire Prevention, which despite the name is a beauty pageant.

suggestion used

You can now remove the phrase "People would say to her grandmother" just before the blockquote.

A23903859 - Oprah Winfrey - chat show host
Author - Opticalillusion

When she was six she went to live with her mother in Milwaukee and ran away from home at the age of thirteen
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(numbers ten and under are written, eleven and over are displayed as figures)



I'm not happy with the title (description), Oprah is an Academy Award-nominated actress, the most philanthropic African American ever and possibly the most influential woman in the world.

Would you be happy with Oprah Winfrey - Actress and Talk Show Host or Oprah Winfrey - Talk Show Host and Philanthropist ??

I think you'd have to list "Chat Show Host" first, as that is what really made her famous and earned her the money to be a philanthropist.

no problems corrections made

Thank you Opti

I'm happy with the Entry now

was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA 29 January, 1954 -->
was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA on 29 January, 1954

I'm concerned about this quote:
"I was just happy to be on TV, but as the years evolved, I grew and wanted to say something without the show"

"say something without the show" doesn't really make any sense. If it was "say something with the show" it would make sense; she would be using the show to say something meaningful. In fact on the following website:

http://www.gadflyonline.com/archive/December98/archive-oprah.html

it is given as "say something with the show" and I think you should change it to that.

the author had mislead her --> the author had misled her

Other than those three points, I'm happy with it.

G

There's no need to mention this in the Entry Opti, but I recall a show on which her guest was a recently-bankrupt pop star. When the girl confessed that she had "trusted too much" and said "you can't keep track of every penny" Oprah stopped her and said "Yes you can. If you had, you wouldn't be in the mess you're in now" - or words to that effect. It proved to me that Oprah keeps a tight hold on her own finances, and very sound advice.

with a wave of the problems have been sorted.

I agree