Like watching the home you grew up in get torn to pieces. FarewellHarpo pic. Walter Burnett Jr. Now the neighborhood is "a safe and cool area, and she was an early pioneer. We're grateful to her," he said. Demolition of the Harpo campus will make way for a new building that thousands of McDonald's corporate employees will call home come West Loop-based developer Sterling Bay plans to build a new nine-story, ,square-foot building to be built at the block-long site.
The company has signed a year lease. McDonald's officials will move about 2, employees into the new Chicago headquarters, according to Burnett. As the Harpo campus is torn down, Sterling Bay plans to honor Oprah Winfrey's legacy in some way in the new development. In March , Harpo announced that Winfrey would not renew the lease on the lot, meaning the longtime home of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and many other TV shows would leave the site.
Winfrey told the Hollywood Reporter it was time to "downsize" the Harpo operation. A small number of the staff still based in Chicago reportedly will relocate to West Hollywood. It's still unclear how many remaining Chicago staffers would lose jobs as a result of the Harpo closing.
Harpo's end in the Windy City should come as no surprise to those local residents who have had their eyes open for the past four years. When the talk show that made Winfrey famous and rich concluded a year run in , the talk diva wasted no time immediately heading for the West Coast, where she already had a palatial residence ready for her to occupy.
Winfrey's move west left a huge void at Harpo, which Winfrey built with some of her wealth so she would have her own place to film her talk show as it quickly developed a huge following around the world. When Winfrey left Chicago in , she took the helm of what was at the time a struggling Oprah Winfrey Network cable channel operation. Winfrey must have been happy. Everyone at the luncheon was a winner which meant " everyone " went home with loot a plaque commemorating their inclusion in AFI's almanac of film.
The lunch is known for bringing cross-film casts together. Arianna Huffington hosted a lunch in her home for pal Jennifer Aniston on Tuesday, a celebration of Aniston's film "Cake.
Before long hours on air for E! Need more "Inherent Vice? Anderson screened the film early last month for an art show by L. Tuesday night was the exhibit's VIP preview. Showtime has nine nominations and three comedy series all returning on Golden Globes night. As for the season premieres airing opposite the Globes, for which Macy above with Felicity Huffman is nominated himself, Emmy Rossum is bullish: "Bill Macy is going to win on one channel and then he is going to be winning on Showtime too," she told TheWrap.
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Oprah Winfrey broke the news to employees in a town meeting-style address on Tuesday morning in Chicago and released the following statement to press: Harpo Studios in Chicago was not just my home but also my life for nearly 30 years.
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