Word: whoopi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visible demonstrations," TIME's Joelle Attinger reports. "Hollywood is very much a bubble, and it remained that way on Oscar night." Jackson called on participants in the show to wear a rainbow ribbon to show their support. Co-producer Quincy Jones, who is black, wore a ribbon, but host Whoopi Goldberg did not. Attinger reports that red AIDS ribbons were far more prevalent. Goldberg, however, did refer to Jackson in her monologue: "I had something I wanted to say to Jesse Jackson, but he's not watching, so forget...
...visible demonstrations," TIME's Joelle Attinger reports. "Hollywood is very much a bubble, and it remained that way on Oscar night." Jackson called on participants in the show to wear a rainbow ribbon to show their support. Co-producer Quincy Jones, who is black, wore a ribbon, but host Whoopi Goldberg did not. Attinger reports that red AIDS ribbons were far more prevalent. Goldberg, however, did refer to Jackson in her monologue: "I had something I wanted to say to Jesse Jackson, but he's not watching, so forget...
...identified with Hollywood, like Quentin Crisp and Susie Bright, contemporary straight actors like Tom Hanks and Susan Sarandon, and many overlapping figures, such as historian Richard Dyer, author Gore Vidal, and screenwriter Paul Rudnick. The heterosexual actors, for the most part, don't come off as well. Whoopi Goldberg and Sarandon radiate satisfaction with their own openmindedness, Hanks seems fairly happy-go-lucky both about his youthful homophobia and his recent embrace of a more sensitive persona. Harry Hamlin seems more perceptive than most, admitting his own tendency to question the sexuality of an actor playing a gay role...
...world because he was one-eighth black. Callen, as white as Matthew Perry, unleashed a rabid tirade about the injustices he suffered because of his "appearance." More irreverent still was a send-up of Mad About You titled Mad About Jew, which imagined Louis Farrakhan married to Whoopi Goldberg, here a publicist for Comic Relief...
...stay one step ahead. He's on the lookout for someone to replace Maher as "the face of Comedy Central" and hopes to launch three new series next year. Herzog also wants to rejuvenate that tired staple, stand-up comedy. The channel has attracted big-name comics like Whoopi Goldberg and Gary Shandling for upcoming specials, but Herzog is also looking for a way to showcase new talent that won't be "a guy telling jokes in front of a brick wall at Giggles in Cincinnati." If he can do that, Comedy Central will deserve its biggest round of applause...