Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, known for regularly gifting valuable goodies to her employees and audience, has gifted every staff member at her O magazine an Apple iPad and $10,000 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the publication.
Staffers at O: The Oprah Magazine also received a leather case engraved with the their initials. The iPad retails between $499 to $829. A spokeswoman for O’s publisher Hearst said they were “personal gifts to the staff from Oprah to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the magazine”. All staffers received the gift, regardless of how long they had worked at the magazine. The total number of staff members who received the gifts was not made immediately available.
Billionaire Winfrey had in 2004 gifted a Pontiac car to every single member of her audience on the 22nd season of her talk show. She had also doled out all-expenses-paid vacations for her staff to exotic locales like the Mediterranean and Hawaii.
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Boyle to direct 2012 London Olympics gala
AGE CORRESPONDENT
LONDON
LONDON OLYMPICS opening ceremony will be directed by Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, the Games organising committee announced on Thursday.
The committee is yet to announce the directors for the Olympics closing ceremony and for the Paralympic opening and closing Ceremonies. These will be decided later in 2010.
The London organising committee of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, which is headed by Lord Sebastian Coe, has formed a four-member team of executive producers for the opening and closing ceremonies of the two Games. Oscar-winning film and theatre director Stephen Daldry is creative executive producer; Beijing 2008 Games desi-gner Mark Fisher is executive producer for design; Grammy and Bafta nominated TV director Hamish Hamilton is broadcast executive producer and Catherine Ugwu will be executive producer for production.