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Tom Brokaw’s Path From College Dropout To NBC News Anchor (VIDEO)

March 19, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Before he became a legendary journalist and news anchor, Tom Brokaw was a promising high school graduate embarking on his collegiate journey — but his path didn’t go quite as planned. In this clip from “Oprah’s Master Class,” Brokaw recounts his turbulent college experience, which included dropping out of the University of South Dakota. He also reveals the event that catapulted him toward his successful TV news career.

Considering Brokaw‘s impressive high school résumé — he had been an athlete and outstanding student who had won leadership awards — everyone who knew him expected his successes to continue in college. “I came out of high school a real whiz kid,” Brokaw says in the clip. “[But] I went completely off the rails at the University of Iowa.”

This included frequently skipping class, the journalist reveals. “I was not going to class. I was having a good time,” he admits. “Woody Allen says that 90 percent of life is showing up; I was in the other 10 percent.”

Cindy Crawford: Model Says Parents’ Divorce Motivated Her To Seek Financial Independence (VIDEO)

March 12, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Before she became a supermodel, Cindy Crawford was a young girl growing up in the small town of DeKalb, Illinois. In this clip from the March 10 episode of “Oprah’s Master Class,” Cindy looks back on her childhood and reveals what her parents’ divorce taught her about financial independence.

“Unfortunately, my parents were one of those couples that didn’t make it,” Cindy says in the clip, explaining that after her parents divorced, Cindy’s father would usually give her mother money each week for child support, but would occasionally withhold the funds at his own discretion. “If he was mad at her — because she’d gone out on a date or done something else — he wouldn’t give her the money that week,” says Cindy. “That sometimes meant we didn’t get grocery money or gas money.”

Witnessing her mother’s financial dependence on her father led Cindy to vow that she would never end up in the same position. “I saw that and I was like, ‘This will never happen to me,’” Cindy states. “I will never be in that situation where I can’t take care of myself.”

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Cindy Crawford: ‘I Don’t Consider Myself A Model’ (VIDEO)

March 6, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By The Huffington Post News Editors

The world knows Cindy Crawford as a supermodel who has graced the cover of countless magazines, but in an upcoming episode of “Oprah’s Master Class,” airing on Sunday, March 10 at 10 p.m. ET on OWN, the sexy American icon reveals that the “model” label does not define who she is.

“I don’t consider myself a model,” Crawford says. “’Model’ is not who I am. It’s what I do.” In this exclusive clip, she explains the difference between the idea of being a model and modeling as a profession — a distinction that Crawford says is often lost on young girls eager to break into the modeling field. “That real lesson, especially for someone in my line of work, [is] to have to like what’s on the inside, to not identify with the envelope,” says Crawford. “The envelope took me far, but that’s not who I am.”

“Oprah’s Master Class” airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on OWN.

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Tom Brokaw’s Path From College Dropout To NBC News Anchor (VIDEO)

Cindy Crawford: Model Says Parents’ Divorce Motivated Her To Seek Financial Independence (VIDEO)

Cindy Crawford: ‘I Don’t Consider Myself A Model’ (VIDEO)

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