Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Stevie Wonder, etc appear on Oprah's final shows

Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Stevie Wonder are among the stars who surprised Oprah Winfrey during a farewell double-episode taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" which will come before the finale original.

Oprah and Tom Cruise | Photo source Reuters

Other celebrities and personalities who turned Oprah's farewell show into a star-studded event include Aretha Franklin, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfel, Madonna, Kristen Chenoweth, John Legend, Josh Groban, Josh Groban, Jamie Foxx, Maria Shriver, Stedman Graham, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Halle Berry, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Dakota Fanning, Diane Sawyer, Beyonce, Rascal Flatts, Rascal Flatts, Lisa Ling, Carson Kressley, Jessica Seinfeld, Ally Wentworth, Bob Greene and Richard Daley.

The show, which is set to air on May 23 and 24, is billed as "Oprah's Surprise Spectacular" because not even the talk show queen know who would be appearing.

Meanwhile, the finale will air on May 25, which would close 25 years of the most-watched daytime talk show in America.

Movie Posters...Bob Peak Art creations! Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences!

Oft times it is the jazzy celebrated movie poster that lures film buffs into the Theatre.

To many connoisseurs they are a unique American Art Form.

Many rare promotional fliers have become collector's items, too 

In fact, when Tom Cruise's last big-budget action adventure flopped at the box-office (Knight & Day), critics blamed a lackluster poster which they argued confused potential theatre-goers about what was being sold at the box-office.

You know what they say.

Packaging! Packaging! Packaging!

If you're intrigued by the medium, then you  may want to trot over to Beverly Hills and catch the ground-breaking Poster Art of Bob Peak which is on hand over the weekend at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

The display is dazzling, to say the least.

Examples of Peak's distinctive creations include posters for Apocalypse Now, Every Which Way But Loose, and Superman.

The free exhibit is housed on the Fourth Floor Gallery 'til Sunday.

See 'ya there!

Gallery
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Fourth Floor Gallery
8949 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA

http://www.oscars.org/

http://www.thetattler.biz/

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