Word: whoopi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Versatile Whoopi Goldberg launches her own talk show...
Most magically, there was a glorious children's theater program at the Hudson Guild, funded by Helena Rubenstein. By age eight, the not-yet Whoopi was hooked. "I could be a princess, a teapot ((she laughs at the memory)), a rabbit, anything. And in a way, it's been children's theater ever since. I've only recently begun believing that I've grown up, and acting is what...
...Whoopi thinks the talk show is "probably not a great career move. I should be riding the crest, doing films." But, she says, she wanted to find out what's on people's minds. Metzger, the white supremacist, told her that separation of the races is important, "and I said, 'Where are you people going, because I sure as hell ain't leaving.' I'm not going to change his mind, but I think as long as we keep a dialogue up, you can see where their hands are. They can't be out in the streets doing the other...
...rude when we come into the store,' and the Koreans can say, 'When you come into the store, we're frightened.' " Filming Sarafina! in Soweto last winter (she plays a courageous teacher in the musical, which will be released this week in New York City and Los Angeles), Whoopi was the target of a "declaration of war" by a black group opposed to the project. "We talked it over," she says, "and the problem was more or less fixed. But, yeah, you feel fear. They had issued a license to any nut who wanted to take me out." As usual...
...Whoopi has been one of the rowdy, trash-talking co-hosts, with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, of the virtually annual Comic Relief TV shows to aid the homeless. Spend time with her, and you see that the raunchiness isn't part of her act; it's part of her nature. Clowning between takes with a photographer, she improvises a gross-out commercial, drip-drip-drip, for adult diapers. Ghost star Demi Moore reports that things got cheerfully vulgar during the shooting of that film. "She'd say, 'It's coming, I feel it coming,' and then...