This material is exclusively prepared for Ringle Customers Material written by Ringle Tutor Midori Chen Ellen DeGeneres: The price to pay for social progress [source:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ellen-degeneres-dedicates-loving-post-210052879.html] 0 본 자료는 저작권 법에 의해 보호되는 저작물로, Ringle 사에 저작권이 존재합니다. 해당 자료에 대한 무단 복제/배포를 금하며, 해당 자료로 수익을 얻거나 이에 상응하는 혜택을 누릴 시 Ringle 과 사전 협의가 없는 경우 고소/고발 조치 될 수 있습니다. This material is exclusively prepared for Ringle Customers [Summary in English] I. Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres’ path to fame began as a small-time local comedian. • Born in 1958, Ellen grew up in Louisiana. She attended the University of New Orleans, majoring in communiCation studies. • In 1981, she was the emCee at Clyde’s Comedy Club in New Orleans. From there, she toured around the United States doing Comedy shows, and was named Showtime’s “funniest person in AmeriCa” in 1984. • Her Comedy Career led to the beginnings of her TV Career in 1994, when she was given a show on ABC titled Ellen. It was during the run of Ellen that she Came out as a lesbian in 1997 on The Oprah Winfrey Show. • In 2003, she began to host the daytime talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, whiCh has beCome one of the most well-known daytime talk shows in the world. • Ellen is a prominent LGBTQ+ rights aCtivist, and married her girlfriend Portia de Rossi in 2008. Other famous aspeCts of her Career include the ED lifestyle brand, the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, voiCing the CharaCter of Dory in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), several published books, and her 2018 Netflix Comedy speCial Relatable. ⇒ Despite her modest beginnings, Ellen has become one of the most famous and influential people in the entire world, with an ever-widening portfolio in the entertainment industry. The story of her early life was by no means glamorous. In fact, it was rather the opposite, populated by trauma. • After leaving university, Ellen worked as a clerk at a law firm. She desCribed feeling “totally lost” at this point in her life, having no ambition and no idea what she wanted to do. 1 본 자료는 저작권 법에 의해 보호되는 저작물로, Ringle 사에 저작권이 존재합니다. 해당 자료에 대한 무단 복제/배포를 금하며, 해당 자료로 수익을 얻거나 이에 상응하는 혜택을 누릴 시 Ringle 과 사전 협의가 없는 경우 고소/고발 조치 될 수 있습니다. This material is exclusively prepared for Ringle Customers • She held various [1] odd jobs, including working as a salesperson at JC Penny’s, a waitress at TGI Friday, a bartender, a hostess, and a house painter. • After [2] Coming out to her father, Ellen was told to move out, beCause her father and stepmother had two young daughters, and they didn’t want Ellen “influencing them.” • She also has desCribed her experiences being sexually molested by her stepfather. • When Ellen was in her early twenties, her girlfriend was killed in a violent car aCCident. They had been living together at the time, had been at the same concert, and the girlfriend left before Ellen. Driving home, Ellen aCtually passed the sCene of the car crash, but not knowing it was her girlfriend, did not stop. ⇒ Later in her life, Ellen would talk about all these events in her life in order to champion hope and compassion in her audience. II. Rise to Prominence In the 80’s, Ellen’s career as a nationally beloved comedian began to take off, informed largely by her background and the stories of her past. • The tragiC and sudden loss of her girlfriend aCtually led to Ellen writing a pieCe Called “Phone Call to God.” She had just moved to an awful basement apartment infested with fleas, and she wondered what it would be like to just piCk up a phone, Call God, and ask why her girlfriend was gone and the fleas were there. • She performed this pieCe in 1986 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, whiCh Could make a Comedian’s entire Career. Ellen beCame the first woman in history to be invited by Johnny Carson to take the seat of honor on his couch after her performance. • This, and being named the funniest person in AmeriCa by Showtime, are widely Considered to be keystone moments in Ellen’s initial career in standup. 2 본 자료는 저작권 법에 의해 보호되는 저작물로, Ringle 사에 저작권이 존재합니다. 해당 자료에 대한 무단 복제/배포를 금하며, 해당 자료로 수익을 얻거나 이에 상응하는 혜택을 누릴 시 Ringle 과 사전 협의가 없는 경우 고소/고발 조치 될 수 있습니다. This material is exclusively prepared for Ringle Customers ⇒ In a career-making moment, Ellen performed at her best and received the endorsement of famous comedian Johnny Carson on national television. She would then go on to become a major TV star in her own right. Ellen came out publicly as a lesbian in 1997. • The next keystone moment of Ellen’s entire Career began with her 1994 ABC sitCom Ellen, in whiCh she played a neurotiC bookstore owner with her trademark observational humor. The sitCom reCeived many awards and nominations throughout its run, and was vastly popular. • In an interview with Oprah, Ellen Came out to the publiC as a lesbian. As to what motivated her Coming out, Ellen talked about “living with so much shame and so much fear, that [she] just Couldn’t live that way anymore.” Her CharaCter on Ellen also Came out as a lesbian in “The Puppy Episode.” • While she speCifiCally stated she didn’t have a politiCal agenda by Coming out, only wanted to “free herself from the heaviness,” Ellen still reCeived extremely negative baCklash. Disney, the parent Company of ABC, pulled funding from publiCity for Ellen, and the sitCom was suddenly Cancelled in 1998 (Ellen only found out about the Cancellation when it was printed in the newspaper). • “The Puppy Episode” aCtually reCeived four Primetime Emmy nominations and won two of them (for Outstanding PiCture-Editing and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series). Despite this sucCess, Ellen said “the phone didn’t ring for three years.” By Coming out, Ellen effeCtively lost her entire career. ⇒ Widespread homophobia in the public as well as the entertainment industry completely washed away decades of Ellen’s hard work, rendering her jobless and depressed for years. III. Career Revival Despite the setbacks, Ellen did not let negative public opinion destroy her life and passion. 3 본 자료는 저작권 법에 의해 보호되는 저작물로, Ringle 사에 저작권이 존재합니다. 해당 자료에 대한 무단 복제/배포를 금하며, 해당 자료로 수익을 얻거나 이에 상응하는 혜택을 누릴 시 Ringle 과 사전 협의가 없는 경우 고소/고발 조치 될 수 있습니다. This material is exclusively prepared for Ringle Customers • In the depths of depression, Ellen started reCeiving letters from LGBTQ teenagers thanking her for coming out. Many of them had been on the brink of suiCide, they wrote, but having a prominent celebrity come out to the publiC gave them hope. Ellen said that these letters showed her that she “had a purpose,” and “it wasn’t just about [her] and it wasn’t just about [being a] celebrity.” She went into therapy and started taking antidepressants. • Her career started piCking baCk up again when she was offered her own talk show, the host position for the 2001 Emmy Awards, and the role of Dory in Disney and Pixar’s Finding Nemo. Finding Nemo would beCome the seCond-highest grossing film of 2003 and play a big part in Ellen’s return to prominence. During all this, Ellen continued to show up to celebrity events with various girlfriends. • The Ellen DeGeneres Show premiered in 2003, and in 2004, reCeived 12 Emmy Award nominations, whiCh is the highest number of nominations reCeived by a talk show in its pilot season. As of 2019, The Ellen Show has won 61 Daytime Emmy Awards, and averages over 4.2 million viewers per episode. Ellen herself also holds the reCord for most awarded person by the People’s ChoiCe Awards, having won “Favorite Daytime TV Host” 14 times. • Since then, Ellen has gone on to host more Emmy’s and also the OsCars. In 2016, Ellen reCeived the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a US civilian can reCeive, from President BaraCk Obama for her contribution to the arts. Both Ellen and Obama [3] got choked up during the ceremony, during whiCh Obama lauded her for “Coming out on the most publiC of stages almost 20 years ago,” for “having paid a priCe,” and for “[countering] what too often divides us with the countless things that bind us together.” • [4] True to form, Ellen’s return to standup on Netflix in 2018 would be titled “Relatable,” eChoing preCisely what Obama said was her gift to the publiC: things, traits, and experiences we all share that can faCilitate bonds of compassion between all human beings. ⇒ By staying true to herself—not only in the sense of being openly gay and supporting other LGBTQ people, but also being a charming and relatable comedian—Ellen rebuilt her career from the ground up, and has succeeded in developing a veritable entertainment 4 본 자료는 저작권 법에 의해 보호되는 저작물로, Ringle 사에 저작권이 존재합니다. 해당 자료에 대한 무단 복제/배포를 금하며, 해당 자료로 수익을 얻거나 이에 상응하는 혜택을 누릴 시 Ringle 과 사전 협의가 없는 경우 고소/고발 조치 될 수 있습니다. This material is exclusively prepared for Ringle Customers empire. She is arguably the most famous lesbian in the world, and has maintained a long, extremely successful career. IV. Takeaways Here are four lessons we can take away from Ellen DeGeneres’ life.