Word: whoopie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate, hard to go one up on Whoopi. Actor colleagues in a San Francisco rep company didn't succeed in the early '80s, when they nicknamed her for a dim-witted novelty-store joke. "I was very flatulent," she explains with an angelic smile. "So for a while it was 'Whoopi Cushion.' Then, for a touch of class, 'Whoopi Couchant.' So I thought, Why not? I'll be Whoopi. But Whoopi Johnson just doesn't cut it." (You figure that one out; her name then was Caryn Johnson.) So she rummaged among her family names and came up with some...
Making people laugh while carrying off this kind of thing without mawkishness is close to impossible, and Whoopi did it. People left the theater feeling that they had just seen the best dramatic show on Broadway. Directornity was basically good...
Making people laugh while carrying off this kind of thing without mawkishness is close to impossible, and Whoopi did it. People left the theater feeling that they had just seen the best dramatic show on Broadway. Directornity was basically good...
Making people laugh while carrying off this kind of thing without mawkishness is close to impossible, and Whoopi did it. People left the theater feeling that they had just seen the best dramatic show on Broadway. Director Steven Spielberg was one of them, and he cast Goldberg as the farmer's ugly- duckling wife Celie in The Color Purple. She had never been on a sound stage before, but her performance turned out to be the best part of a good film. And in the next few years, in role after role, her acting was the best part...
Such as Sister Act. Waiting for Whoopi's dangerous-to-your-health mouth to fulminate is the main plot element -- no, the sole plot element -- of this Disney no-brainer, one of those renegade-hides-out-with-cute -nuns movies that + Hollywood makes every three years. So Sister Act (which has grossed $125 million to date) has a touch of class it doesn't really deserve. So do Clara's Heart, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Ghost (for which Goldberg got the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, though she is firm in announcing that she's an actor, and never mind...