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...orgasmic rendition of Unchained Melody, the sex is so beautiful you could die from it. Too soon, Sam does die -- he is murdered -- in a plot twist that anyone can unravel in an eyewink. Now stranded between heaven and earth, he must use the gifts of a sassy psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to alert Molly of threats to her life -- and, while he has her attention, to make mad pash one last time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Giving Up the Ghosts | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...Father Dowling Mysteries. As a result, prejudice becomes an abstraction to be preached against and overt bigotry all but limited to a bizarrely menacing alliance between American Nazis and skinheads on 21 Jump Street. So too does TV breezily dismiss the crisis of the black family. On Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi Goldberg plays a recently jettisoned wife whose son's only adjustment problem is that working in the restaurant kitchen interferes with his ambition to be a classical pianist. This atypical dilemma is resolved in 1950s-sitcom style: Henry Mancini decrees that the kid has real talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What A Waste of (Prime) Time | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...musical pioneer and a charismatic leader of the Nueva Cancion (New Song) movement, a steamy mix of poetry, politics and tropical rhythms that has left an imprint on Latin music. In the U.S., he is an up-and-coming actor who has worked with Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Redford in such films as Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition and The Milagro Beanfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBEN BLADES: Singer, Actor, Politico | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...state ballot; voters were asked to decide everything from taxes to bonds to insurance rates. The movie community also prefers causes to people: the Hollywood Women's Political Committee devoted most of its efforts this year to the April 9 abortion march on Washington, with Morgan Fairchild, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Cybill Shepherd and others leading the charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make Boring Beautiful | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...Whoopi Goldberg, as much a social critic as comedian, has defended Snyder. "Jimmy says...we bred big Black bucks to big Black women and made big Black fast kids. Now did he lie? What did he say that offended people? He told the fuckin' truth...and America and the NAACP and everybody else was pissed...and all the white folks said Jimmy shouldn't've said that...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bearers of Bad News | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

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