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Whoopi Goldberg Bricklayer

March 26, 2012 by · Comments Off on Whoopi Goldberg Bricklayer 

Whoopi Goldberg Bricklayer, In the time-honoured tradition of treading the boards a period of ‘resting’ is almost a prerequisite for any self-respecting, aspiring young actor. Whoopi Goldberg was no exception. ‘Needs must,’ she says pragmatically. ‘I was young, homeless and addicted to heroin. I’d dropped out of high school and into drugs. Simple as that.

I was a child of the Sixties so I ingested as many mind-altering substances as I could. It was a rite of passage. And when I got clean I was convinced I wanted to be an actor. I just needed a bit of time to convince the acting profession. So, in between, I needed a job.’

A regal Whoopi Goldberg presenting the 1999 Academy Awards show
But a bricklayer? It isn’t exactly cachet laden. Think big dungarees, grubby nails, lots of sloppy cement and men showing wedges of builder’s bottom and beer belly. ‘Well, I needed money and I needed to work,’ she shrugs. ‘So I figured I would rather lay bricks than lay men for money,’ Goldberg grins.

Actually, she became quite good at it. So good that she was invited to join the bricklayer’s union. Something of an honour, she tells me, for a novice brickie building walls around the San Diego Zoo.

Can she still do it? If I wanted a wall could Whoopi build it? ‘Well, I could,’ she says, staring intently down her nose – the only way she can see out of her purple-framed glasses that seem to perch perpetually on the bridge of her nose. ‘But you wouldn’t want it. I’m kinda rusty now. But I was good then. And I could have been great. See that?’ she says, poking a polished finger nail into the cement between the bricks on the back wall of the London Palladium. (Should you be wondering why we are lounging against a wall, next to the wheelie bins, down an alleyway at the back of the theatre, it’s because we were both desperate for a cigarette.) ‘Good, even work,’ she says. ‘I notice these things.’

Wall building, though, wasn’t the only skill Goldberg acquired while she was waiting for the acting fraternity to discover her genius. ‘I did a course in beauty therapy, still have my beautician’s licence too.’ But, in typical Goldberg fashion, her work wasn’t quite conventional.

‘I did people’s make-up. Dead people’s, actually,’ she says diffidently. ‘I was good at that too. I learned the trade and the first job that came up was with a mortician.’

Crunching her Marlboro light beneath the sole of her black and white Converse sneakers (the only shoes she will wear) Goldberg giggles and says: ‘Here’s the story of my first day making up the dead. I got a call saying I was wanted in the boss’s office. Which just happened to be where the bodies were kept in drawers. I went down and there was no one there. So I sat down and waited. A few minutes later I heard sort of creaking. I turned round and one of the drawers was slowly opening. Then someone sat up and waved at me. Someone who should have been dead.

‘Man, I was totally freaked out. Turns out it was the boss. He jumped out and said: “That’s the worst thing that could ever happen to you here, and it won’t. So there’s nothing to be scared of. Just think of the bodies as big dolls whose face and hair you are going to fix.” I was fine after that.’

Back inside the Palladium Goldberg is still shaking with laughter as she settles down in a deep, velvet chair and pours a bottle of mineral water. ‘It wasn’t such a bad job,’ she shrugs. ‘And things could only get better.’

They did, of course. So much so that during the Nineties, after her Oscar-winning role as a psychic in Ghost, Goldberg was Hollywood’s highest paid woman actor. Though she hasn’t been setting the silver screen alight of late, her foray into political commentary and her success as host of The View, Hollywood’s rather po-faced version of British television’s Loose Women, have plunged her back into the limelight.

Today Goldberg – winner of not just an Oscar, but also a Golden Globe and an Emmy – is in town for rehearsals of Sister Act, the £7 million stage version of the 1992 film in which she plays Deloris, the brassy nightclub singer who witnesses a mob murder and is forced to hide out in a convent – transforming the nuns’ choir while she’s there and learning about life, love and loyalty when she isn’t falling foul of Mother Superior (Maggie Smith) and Monsignor Howard (Ian Lavender, Pike from Dad’s Army.)

The View Walk Off

October 15, 2010 by · Comments Off on The View Walk Off 

The View Walk Off, Bill O’Reilly was a guest on the talk show on Thursday and during a conversation about the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero of things was so hot that Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set!

According to the Huffington Post, O’Reilly said conditional support of Obama’s center was evidence of the “gulf” between him and the American people. Whoopi and Joy strongly disagree.

“This is America!” Joy said.

“Listen to me because you’ll learn!” O’Reilly rudely interrupted, which stunned the public. Whoopi and Joy finally left the plateau and Barbara Walters had to turn to the public and say: “This should not take place “.

Real Housewives Of Dc

August 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Real Housewives Of Dc 

Real Housewives Of DcReal Housewives Of Dc, When it comes to an iteration of perpetually hatching Bravo Real Housewives franchise, there is no such thing as new. Sure, the characters are different, and locale adds a touch of flavor imperceptible. However, the chassis is the same: bland, scripted reality women who act out their lives in many ways unflattering. Despite knowing this, I hoped that the latest version, The Real Housewives of DC, for an improvement. Perhaps “better” is not the right word because anyone who declares that an issue is superior to any other is fooling himself, “but I thought that if any city can offer a markedly different tone and feel to the family structure Washington, DC, would do so.

The producers apparently thought the same thing. Among the first lines of voice over we hear is: “Flaunting money does not impress people, the currency here is the proximity to power.” It is a potentially electrifying culture have made graft housewives format, which is so deeply rooted in conspicuous consumption and women who are in their obsessive pursuit of wealth, opulence, and the projection of the same. The assault hair pulling is fueling the drama in this season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey resulted from a discussion in which a cast member told the other home was in foreclosure. Zing. In the universe of housewives, there are some lines you do not cross; attack loved ones of women and errors of clothing, but the arrangement of your mortgage is out of bounds.

But at the same time a look at the energy economy based on DC could have interesting results, the Beltway bona fide divas do not get close to this spectacle in housewives with a haute couture gown of hazardous materials. So we are left with the lowest-hanging cherry blossoms, women without the proximity to power, either physically (most of the cast members live in outlying suburbs of Virginia) or personal (closest brush a woman is a picture with Barack Obama long before his presidential run).

The only exception is Ommanney Cat, whose husband, Carlos, is a White House photographer (and a contributor to Newsweek). It is true that she has never met its own president, but only one degree of separation. However, the producers try to use to flesh out his pride ourselves as currency. Jack offends guests at a dinner where he praises George W. Bush and denigrates Obama, mostly because the ex RSVP’d to the wedding while the second did not. The question, of course, is not whether the cat is a valid assessment, but rather the intention: there is enmity legitimate, or is that just trying to squeeze the jealousy of other women? These are the types of fumes story that makes engines run Housewives, but unfortunately, the name-dropping commanders in chief does not make it more convincing. Especially considering Jack and Charles would have divided that is, the light touch of style DC insiders be completely absent in the second season.

However, there is a masterstroke that are in The Real Housewives of DC, and this is the treatment of the demonstration of Michaele Salahi, best known for walking uninvited into a state dinner at White House last November. The firestorm over the gate-crashers-Michaele and her husband, Tariq, was excessive to begin with, and when it was revealed that the whole episode was being filmed for possible inclusion in a reality show, actually found the whole thing and not more less odious. We understand that the work of a reality-show star is doing outrageous things, not in a sound studio, but in real life. We understand that people are going through exhaustive hearing and application processes for the privilege of having that job. Is there a better way to audition for the job of a person who does things in half-crazy silvestre’n’ in the chamber, which, you know, doing things in the middle silvestre’n’-crazy? Michael premeditation in carrying out a plan to get a job that atrocious? I say no, but a Gallup poll and called Salahis the political losers 2009 (beating to Rep. Joe Wilson and Governor Mark Sanford), so I’m alone in that.

Instead of letting the public sentiment toward the Salahis of flavors, Bravo has decided to launch Michaele as the villain of the franchise. In all the housewives shows, there hung weaker rivalries of the pins, and DC seem especially apocryphal. Mary, married mother of five with a biometric lock on his locker, says she knows Michaele long time, and without going into details or even a little, says she would feel strange Michaele take a party in his honor, before, of course, for the invitation anyway. Without explaining the origin of the disagreements, almost all the characters greeted the mention of Michael with a roll of the eyes and a sarcastic comment about his thin body. Of course, despite Michaele gets the editing, too. One of his first lines of dialogue is, “When people first see me, they think, ‘God, no substance to it.'” The producers have taken the most responsibility and turned it into a strength, not only by including the tip of the state of the dinner and its impact on the show, but also through the use of narrative to show that, yes, maybe you have a TV, but they can not stand Michaele more than you.


Lynn France

August 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Lynn France 

Lynn FranceLynn France, Last week I told the story of the woman who found her husband’s second wife and second life on Facebook.

At that time, he remained anonymous.

Now, Lynn France has become, shedding their version of events on the Today Show and in interviews with The Associated Press, as they appear in national TV is the natural next step for a woman so scorned, so ashamed and so angry having family problems of diffusion on Facebook. She really just wants this to go all away, right after she does her television appearances.

Anyway, the story is becoming a classic version of he said she said, and said his hair. She wants custody of his children, he is brought to Florida to live with his new wife, says his marriage was never legal from what is not a bigamist, she says she is a liar, says his hair is not getting enough credit.

Watch the video below for the complete summary, including wedding photos on Facebook that calls this whole fiasco. The best? John France wearing what looks like a white sleeveless shirt during the reception, a jacket that accentuates your nice man boobs. See for yourself:

Michaele Salahi

August 5, 2010 by · Comments Off on Michaele Salahi 

Michaele SalahiMichaele Salahi, NEW YORK (CBS / AP) A television star’s lawyer and accused the White House, Gatecrasher Michaele Salahi is not happy with his client’s appearance on “The View.”

Lawyer says Lisa Bloom producing the ABC series on the light applause from the audience when Sherri Shepherd, one of the show’s hosts, Salahi said that “should be in jail.”

Bloom said that his client’s appearance Wednesday at the talk show was “degrading and humiliating.”

Consequences was a show that ended in a shouting match between racks and co-Salahi Whoopi Goldberg. Goldberg came on set for the emergence of Salahi your urge to talk more about the night she and her husband, Tariq, crashed the dinner President Barack Obama state last fall.

“The View”said spokesman Karl Nilsson started the altercation between racks after allegedly Salahi Goldberg accused of hitting in the series. He called the charge completely unfounded Bloom says Goldberg said his client never hit him, but Salahi had been startled by her.

Salahi was the program on Wednesday to promote his appearance on “Real Housewives of DC Bravo,” which opens Friday. She and her husband are still under investigation by a grand jury in connection with his attendance at the first state dinner President Obama in November.

(Bloom is one of the CBS News legal analyst.)

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