Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the fact that her credentials range from an Academy Award to lauded improvisational comedy and autobiographies, Whoopi Goldberg could not draw enough spectators to fill the 1,100-seat Sanders Theatre to capacity on Monday afternoon...
...problem was not that people were uninterested in seeing Whoopi lecture," Thomas S. Lee, coordinator of the Learning from Performers program, which brings visiting artists such as Goldberg to the University, said. "It's that the students didn't follow up and claim their tickets...
Tickets to see Goldberg were distributed through a lottery system...
According to Lee, the lottery for the Goldberg lecture was modeled after that used for lectures at the Kennedy School of Government...
...When we used this system with Mel Gibson, there was a great response, and we had a full house," he said. "I modeled the Goldberg lottery after what we did for Mel Gibson...