Word: whoopi
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...benevolence, is hard at work on granting us the latter. The producers of next year's Academy Awards show, husband-and-wife team Lili and Richard Zanuck, made a public plea this month to intermittent emcee BILLY CRYSTAL, who last year ceded the hosting duties to Whoopi Goldberg. "It's the one thing people agree on--they all want Billy," said Lili (kindly refraining from adding, "just not in any more of those City Slickers movies"). Heeding our quality-of-life needs, Crystal last week consented to the gig. The Zanucks, producing the show for the first time, have pledged...
...houses, Almodovar, 48, is a reliable moneymaker. He also makes the kind of bright, saucy films Hollywood wishes it could. So the studios have courted him ever since his 1988 hit Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. They bought remake rights for Jane Fonda, then for Whoopi Goldberg (though the film wasn't made), then they asked him to direct Sister Act, First Wives Club, Runaway Bride and, he says, "anything with drag queens." But though he hopes to make a film soon in Florida, based on Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, Almodovar's roots are deep...
...Hard truths: Planet Hollywood stock, which sat at $24 shortly after going public in 1997, is now at 19 cents (yes, cents). Founding partners Arnold, Bruce, Demi, Sly and Whoopi aren?t exactly the hip-kid draws they were at the turn of the decade. And almost any operation that in seven years opens more than 80 restaurants (including ones in Bangkok and Dubai) is bound to have growing pains; PH?s latest was a $228 million loss for the quarter that ended in December 1998. Despite Earl?s rote assertion that "Today is the first step in our plan...
...Johnny Carson (You Made Me Watch You). He helped Billy Crystal with the '90s' most sit-throughable Oscar shows, capped by the 1993 gender-bending song parody (to the tune of The Tender Trap): "Those eyes/ Those thighs/ Surprise!/It's The Crying Game." He was the writer when Whoopi Goldberg performed before President and Mrs. Clinton--and when Ted Danson did his blackface bit at a 1993 Friars Club banquet. "He told the worst, racist, dirty, just filthy awful jokes," Vilanch recalls. "All mine." The assembled luminaries were embarrassed, aghast. "I mean, they were like marble. You could have...
...dying Caesar's ear, "Say, 'Et tu, Brute?'" So it's nice that Vilanch, a wide guy with a blond mop that makes him look like an obscene Senor Wences puppet, is now (as one of his 1,500 T shirts reads) ALMOST FAMOUS, camping it up with Whoopi on the syndicated hit Hollywood Squares, for which he also serves as head writer...