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...here comes Disney with Encino Man (May 22), in which MTV Valley Dude Pauly Shore digs up a frozen caveman, and Sister Act (May 29), with Whoopi Goldberg taking refuge from the mob in Maggie Smith's convent. Encino Man is already touted as "the Wayne's World of summer," and that's fine with Katzenberg, who describes his mostly low-budget summer slate as "the anti- 800-lb.-gorilla school of film-making." Disney's only expensive movie is, of course, a sequel: Honey, I Blew...
Altman has assembled a dream cast to flesh out his ironic panoply. Besides Tim Robbins, the movie is blessed with the presence of Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Richard E. Grant (in a hilarious virtuoso turn as a writer) and Lyle Lovett (in his film debut...
...course, equanimity comes easier when you're riding a wave of praise like that The Player is provoking. Even jaded actors feel privileged to be part of the film. Cast members Peter Gallagher, Fred Ward, Malcolm McDowell and Whoopi Goldberg saw The Player together at a private screening. After the final credit roll, Gallagher recalls, "we were sitting with our heads down, looking at our feet and just kind of saying, 'It's so cool to be involved with this movie.' " Yet the huzzahs worry Altman a bit -- he remembers that Nashville "got overhyped by the press." And the gush...
...room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near the end of The Player is profoundly pleasurable...
That's entertainment? TV syndicators are obsessed with chatter. After all, talk is cheap and popular. Soon everyone from WHOOPI GOLDBERG and Saturday Night Live's DENNIS MILLER to gossipmonger KITTY KELLEY, radio personality RUSH LIMBAUGH and even onetime Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer will be hosting new gab shows. Get ready for more tales of unhappy childhoods, bizarre behavior and plugs, plugs, plugs...