Word: whoopi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood's center square came to Harvard Square yesterday afternoon when Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg responded candidly to questions from a crowd of students and staff in Sanders Theatre...
Award-winning actor Whoopi Goldberg will field question from students at an informal forum a week from Monday in Sanders Theatre...
...altogether different fat chick," says Roseanne, comparing herself with Rosie O'Donnell. She's right. Her new talk show has none of the comfy good cheer of Rosie's; it's cruder, more sensational and also more serious. Mostly the debut was banal, if often profane, as Whoopi Goldberg pontificated about Monica Lewinsky and Roseanne interviewed a tiresome Linda Tripp impersonator. But Roseanne and Goldberg's conversation with three teenage mothers was surprisingly simple and affecting. Roseanne's emotions are not polished to an Oprah-like smoothness, and she can be appealingly authentic, in her rare quieter moments...
...speaking of her admiration for her Stella co-star Whoopi Goldberg, who was kind to Bassett years ago. "You could see the warmth coming from the heart and straight out the eyes," she recalls. "But I've had the other happen too. Not mean, exactly, but, 'Hi, how're you doing?'" Instantly, the room temperature drops to arctic levels as Bassett pretends to stare a hole through someone talking to her. "Then, after I became known, it was, 'Oh, I love you.'" And she swoops down from the chair, practically to her knees, in a deft satire of sycophancy. Drama...
...Guru's theories may prove to be correct. "Hollywood Squares" is set to reappear next season with Whoopi Goldberg in the center square. In addition, "Match Game," "Let's Make a Deal," and a revamped version of "The $25,000 Pyramid" are all set to make a comeback in the coming years...