My Short List: Donna Summer, Teena Marie and Whitney Houston.

I Learned Two things from that special: Brandy has a new wig, and Latoya must have been too busy to attend.

Whitney and Beyonce were invited.... i'm thinking whitney wasn't able to get her self together to attend and i'm thinking beyonce was filming the pink panther when this event took place or promting that destiny's child cd
but both were invited

sade & anita baker

The BIGGEST snub was - "Esther" from "Sanford & Son"

StoneCrib said:

Lawanda Page was not amongst the living at the time of this event
she died in 2002... Oprah made a point of celebrating 25 women
who were still alive

banks said:

Bullshit. They coulda dug her up. Oprah has the money to do it.

Why are we talking about this alot lately.... a year later?

StoneCrib said:

what is this about? did oprah give a speech and leave someone off? was this on her show?

actually, it concerns oprah so there's no need to fill me in.

StoneCrib said:

sallysassalot said:

Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball was shown on tv last nite and this thread is about people who some feel that might have not been invited

banks said:

purplecam said:

funkin4kix said:

Oprah is done with Anita Baker and has been for many years. Anita has been scheduled to do the Oprah show couple times throughout the years and has been a no show every time.

I remember one time in 94/95 Oprah came out and said 'Well we where going to finally have Anita Baker on today but I was told she had the flu...that was 5 days ago..and apparently she still has the flu cuz she aint here'....she ended up scheduling Roberta Flack on show that also featured Gloria Estefan and Vanessa Williams.

Last year when Anita's comeback album was coming out..she turned down Oprah once again (I was told..this was the 4th time)....

So I'm sure Oprah thought..'why the hell should I invite her if she aint gonna show!'

peace
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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

busted

Isn't Teena Marie white? It seemed it was only black women (unless you're talking about the ball).

Octavia Butler might have been nice.

NDRU said:

I also thought about her.

Madonna wasn't...but she's white!

Hmmm, did anyone else find the show a bit racist/sexist?

I mean, I get it, I do. Black chics had a hard time makin' it back in the day. We know ALLLLL about it. But WTF already. Okay Oprah appreciates them making the way a bit easier for her and other black women. GREAT.....send them a thank you card. Or even go ahead.....Have a "Legends Ball". But WTF, DON'T TELEVISE IT!!!!!

I'm sure Fat Italian Men, Jewish Men w/big noses, Skinny white girls w/no titts, Latinos w/big asses, had a hard time makin' it in show bussiness too. I don't see any tributes to J LO for makin' fat asses cool.

But can you imagine what OPRAH or others would do if there was a televised PRIME TIME special called SKINNY WHITE GIRLS BALL?!?!?!?!
People would be ALLLL over it.

Oprah's that black agenda...

What more can I say!

luv4all7 said:

VH-1, E!, or Lifetime might have THAT kind of show soon. Just watch!!!

Ha Ha ha,,,, You're killing Me over here.... Classic...

StoneCrib said:

luv4all7 said:

I don't know, black women in this country have had 2 major ostacles to overcome. Nothing wrong with celebrating their achievements.

I did notice none of the thousand waiters were black, though. This must have been on purpose, but I bet there was plenty of black waiters who would have killed for that job that day.

luv4all7 said:

Rush! When did you get out?! Great to see ya, man! How the pain pills doin' for ya?

twistedeargasm said:

MikeMatronik said:

LOL! Why do "people" get sooooo scared when Black people decide to do something honoring THEMSELVES? What are you afraid of? Were YOU gonna celebrate Black achievement? Nope. So why are you so worried about this? Is it going to take down America? Nope. So chill. Relax. Sheesh!

StoneCrib said:

?? Huh??

StoneCrib said:

I don't know why people seem to see Oprah legends ball as some kind of reverse KKK rally.

luv4all7 said:

You're Rush Limbaugh...right?

NDRU said:

Exactly! I wonder if those same "people" know that Latinoes do the same thing on Telemundo? I bet they aren't saying anything about that?