Oprah Winfrey
USA TODAY Archive: Oprah's $7M car giveaway stuns TV audience
Ann Oldenburg
USA TODAY
This story originally published on July 14, 2004. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022.
CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey could just sit back. Relax. Count her millions. Jet between her many fabulous homes. Go yachting whenever she feels like it.
But instead, the 50-year-old icon is starting her 19th season on daytime talk TV. And on Monday's premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," she kicked it off with an Oprah-sized stunt: