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From: "Aleisha Saba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Look abuot you and see what these people are doing to the children -
> attempting to turn them into sodomists, drug addicts - garbage tv and
> movies - Whoopie Goldberg, foul mouthed but have yet to see her
> biography on web...
Easy enough to find...try the following; according to this bio, she made up the last
name of "Goldberg", but I
DO remember that when she first became famous, she claimed to have been married to a
Goldberg, who presumably
was the father of her daughter.
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http://mrshowbiz.go.com/people/whoopigoldberg/content/Bio.html
Whoopi Goldberg
"I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in
the car, but other than
that, life is actually pretty good."
- Whoopi Goldberg
Occupation: Actress, Comedian
Date of Birth: November 13, 1954
Place of Birth: New York, N.Y., USA
Sign: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Leo
Relations: Former companion: Frank Langella (actor); ex-husbands: David Calessen
(director of photography),
Lyle Trachtenberg (union organizer); kids: Alexandra Martin (from first marriage)
Education: High School for the Performing Arts, New York
CARYN JOHNSON has been performing in front of audiences since the age of 8, when she
first appeared onstage at
the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre in New York City. By the mid-1970s, the high
school dropout and
self-proclaimed hippie had appeared in the choruses of several Broadway musicals
(Hair, Jesus Christ
Superstar, and Pippin); married and become addicted to heroin; divorced and kicked her
heroin habit. In 1974,
Johnson, destined for far greater things, headed to L.A., with daughter Alexandra in
tow. A week-long sojourn
to San Diego turned into a six-year stopover, during which time she helped found the
San Diego Repertory
Theatre and joined several struggling improvisational troupes. It was during the San
Diego chapter of her life
that Johnson chose for herself an offbeat stage name: "The name came out of the blue.
It was a joke. First it
was Whoopi Cushion. Then it was French, like Whoopi Cushon. My mother said, 'Nobody's
gonna respect you with a
name like that.' So I put Goldberg on it."
During her fringe-theater apprenticeship, Goldberg toiled as a bricklayer, bank
teller, and funeral parlor
cosmetician (she preferred working on dead people, because it annoyed her that all
living customers wanted to
look like Farrah Fawcett) to support herself. The inimitable mimic slowly developed a
brilliant seriocomic
narrative theater based on a gallery of socially disinherited characters through whom
she assessed the world.
While performing her solo comic Spook Show, she was discovered by director Mike
Nichols, who mounted her
eponymous one-woman Broadway show in 1984. The following year, she made a dazzling
dramatic film debut in The
Color Purple, a performance that earned her the Best Actress Golden Globe and an Oscar
nomination.
A fixture in the firmament of media fame from then on, the dreadlocked comedienne
continued to appear live,
joined the cast of television's Star Trek: The Next Generation, launched both a
short-lived sitcom called
Bagdad Cafe and a late-night talk show (also short-lived), and tackled numerous movie
roles. Sadly, many of
her film endeavors - Burglar, Fatal Beauty, Homer and Eddie, to name but a few -
squandered her monolithic
talent, but Goldberg scored an unqualified hit and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
with her portrayal of a
garishly dressed medium in 1990's Ghost. The phenomenal, surprising success of the
featherweight Sister Act
(1991), led to a reported (and unheard of) $8-million return engagement in the sequel.
Goldberg's projects
since then have been a mixed bag of misses and hits, with clunkers like National
Lampoon's Loaded Weapon, the
oh-so-appropriately titled Bogus, Rob Reiner's uninspired Ghosts of Mississippi, and
the Winona Ryder-produced
memoir adaptation Girl, Interrupted being counterbalanced with crowd-pleasers like
Star Trek: Generations,
Boys on the Side, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and The Deep End of the Ocean.
Goldberg filed an interesting
chapter in her career in 1998, when she returned to the small screen to take center
square in the new
syndicated version of The Hollywood Squares.
Whoopi's rags-to-riches private life includes a Martha Stewart-esque Vermont farm to
which she retreated when
her unlikely affair with Cheers star Ted Danson broke up his longtime marriage. Danson
donned blackface at her
Friar's Club roast in 1993, and both his lame, racist jokes and their relationship
fizzled. Goldberg recently
ended a romantic relationship with actor Frank Langella, with whom she co-starred in
the woebegone 1996
basketball comedy Eddie. In 1994 and 1996, Goldberg served as host of the Oscars,
making it clear that, in a
very short time, she had assumed a unique position in the Hollywood hierarchy.
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