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	Whoopi Goldberg joins 'The View' - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whoopi Goldberg was introduced as the show's latest co-host Wednesday, joining Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the panel of ABC's hit daytime show.
		Goldberg has won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony in her career.
		Goldberg has had her own brushes with controversy, including a 2004 speech against the Bush administration that resulted in Goldberg being dismissed from a Slim-Fast advertising campaign.
	www.cnn.com /2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/01/view.whoopi/index.html?section=cnn_latest (435 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg Relationships
		Whoopi Goldberg may have done extensive traveling in her early years, or in some way had a background which enables her to understand and identify with many different types of people or cultures.
		Whoopi Goldberg tends to be a bit pessimistic and is inclined to feel emotional depressed a lot.
		Whoopi Goldberg is not especially sentimental and her love partner may feel that she is too casual and not serious or romantic enough.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Whoopi_Goldberg.asp (600 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her stage name was taken from 'whoopie cushion', which she initially wanted as her name, but chose the last moniker of Goldberg after her mother pointed out that her initial name pick would not look dignified enough to take seriously.
		Goldberg's performance caught the eye of Steven Spielberg, who was inspired to cast Goldberg in her major film debut, an adaptation of the award-winning novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
		Goldberg came to the attention of much of the U.S. public when her one-woman Broadway show was broadcast as an HBO special in 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg (2052 words)

	UNICEF - UNICEF People - Whoopi Goldberg
		Goldberg has received considerable acclaim for her work in film, stage, television, comedy and as a producer, host and writer.
		Goldberg will start by doing media work in New York, conducting interviews and producing material that can be used for UNICEF offices in the developing world and industrialized countries for fundraising and advocacy purposes.
		Whoopi Goldberg speaks on her appointment as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
	www.unicef.org /people/people_whoopi_goldberg.html (283 words)

	SHE PROFILES: WHOOPI GOLDBERG
		Goldberg raised in the Chelsea housing projects was always a talented child but not a very good student.
		Goldberg's talent for portraying character types attracted the attention of many including award winning director and producer Mike Nichols, who helped her to stage numerous shows on Broadway.
		Goldberg has won an Oscar for her role in the 1993 award-winning movie "Ghost" as Oda Mae Brown, a Black psychic draw into the world of an unsettled white male ghost.
	www.harlemlive.org /shethang/profiles/whoopigoldberg/whoopi.html (352 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whoopi Goldberg was born in 1949 in New York and her real name was Caryn Johnson.
		Whoopi Goldberg had a daughter called Alexandra and in the same year she got a divorce in her marriage.
		Whoopi is in Hollywood Squares and is the middle square.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/goldberg.htm (142 words)

	Adia's Place - Whoopi Goldberg
		Whoopi's father abandoned the family, and her single mother found herself working a variety of jobs to make ends meet.
		At the tender age of eight, Whoopi was already appearing on stage and was a member of a New York children's theaters, the Hudson Child Guild and the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre.
		Whoopi comments that she was inspired by Lt. Uhara's character (in the original Star Trek series) because she was a fl woman in a position of power (on the bridge).
	transporting.to /Adia/whoopi.html (926 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg
		Whoopi starred in the box-office hit "Sister Act" and the sequel, "Sister Act 2." She also starred in "Sarafina!," a film adaptation of the stage musical, shot on location in South Africa.
		Goldberg received an Oscar nomination and the Golden Globe Award in 1985 for her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg's film version of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple." She has since starred in such films as "The Long Walk Home," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Burglar," "Fatal Beauty," "Clara's Heart," "Soapdish," and "The Player," among others.
		Whoopi co-produced and appeared in "Hot Rod Brown," the first two "Tales from the Whoop" for Nickelodeon, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award.
	www.starfleetlibrary.com /bios/whoopi_goldberg.htm (639 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg
		Goldberg started on stage at the city's Hudson Guild Community Center, and eventually moved to California, where she did experimental theater and supported herself with low-paying jobs as a manual laborer.
		She also had a short-lived TV sitcom, Whoopi; replaced Nathan Lane in a Broadway revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; and served as emcee at several "Comic Relief" performances, raising funds for homeless-related charities.
		Goldberg thought it was hilarious, and still says so, though only the people who were in the room can honestly say, since nobody else has actually heard the material.
	www.nndb.com /people/242/000025167 (858 words)

	African American Lives . Profiles . Whoopi Goldberg \| PBS
		Whoopi Goldberg's great-great grandparents, William and Elsie Washington, were among a very small number of African Americans who became landowners through homesteading in the years following the Civil War.
		Whoopi, born Caryn Johnson on November 13, 1955, grew up in the multicultural public housing projects of New York City's Chelsea neighborhood.
		Whoopi won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990), subsequently starring in the SISTER ACT films (1992, 1993) and appearing in Robert Altman's acclaimed film THE PLAYER (1992).
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aalives/profile_goldberg.html (333 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg Tunes In - May 09, 2006 - E! Online News
		Goldberg said her show will be aimed at attracting female listeners who have increasingly strayed to morning television for lack of a better option.
		In a time where stars such as Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart have flocked to satellite radio, Goldberg said she opted for free terrestrial radio in the hopes of making a "big impact" on her listeners.
		Goldberg, who's been known to find herself at the center of the occasional controversy, said she planned to keep the show family friendly.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,18985,00.html (505 words)

	'Criminal Intent' Makin' Whoopi - Goldberg takes recurring role as villain - Zap2it
		Whoopi Goldberg has not often played the villain in her career, your opinion of "Eddie" or "Made in America" notwithstanding.
		NBC is keeping quiet about the details of her particular brand of evil, though executive producer Fred Berner allows that "she'll be the baddest" of bad guys in the "CI" universe.
		The role is Goldberg's first network prime-time gig since her sitcom "Whoopi" aired on NBC two seasons ago.
	www.zap2it.com /tv/news/zap-whoopigoldberg-criminalintent,0,5418241.story?coll=zap-news-headlines (302 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg - Memory Alpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whoopi Goldberg portrayed Guinan on occasion from Season 2 through Season 6 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
		Goldberg was born on 13 November 1955 in New York, NY, as Caryn Elaine Johnson.
		The writers of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rivals" intended the character of Martus Mazur to be a son of Guinan who was also to appear in the episode, but Whoopi Goldberg was unavailable.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg (189 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whoopi Goldberg has come a long way from the job she once had applying makeup to corpses in a mortuary.
		Appearing on stage since she was eight years old, Goldberg attended New York City's (where she was born) High School for the Performing Arts.
		As one of the producers of the TV series Strong Medicine, in 2003 Goldberg and her fellow producers won a Gracie Allen Award.
	www.tribute.ca /all_actors/bios/1924.htm (222 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg @ Filmbug
		An evening of original material, written and created by Whoopi, the show opened to the Lyceum Theatre to critical acclaim, which was later taped for the HBO special Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway, and the record album of her Broadway show won a Grammy Award as Best Comedy Recording of the year in 1985.
		Whoopi's Broadway show also turned out to be an audition for Steven Spielberg, who casting the film version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple.
		Whoopi is also executive producer of Lifetime's Strong Medicine and its forthcoming spin-off series, as well as Nickelodeon's Whoopi's Littleburg and an upcoming series about the world of girls' soccer.
	www.filmbug.com /db/374 (553 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg Tickets at StubHub!
		Whoopi Goldberg tickets are a must for anyone who loves a good laugh.
		Whoopi Goldberg tickets are available, and these comedy tickets are sure to create demand given Goldberg's transcendent success in the entertainment industry.
		Goldberg has had success in several ways, and has won an Academy Award, a Daytime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe, a Tony Award, a BAFTA and a Grammy Award, and her performances will show you why she is so revered for her talent.
	www.stubhub.com /whoopi-goldberg-tickets (400 words)

	USATODAY.com - Slim-Fast drops Goldberg over Bush puns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Comic Whoopi Goldberg's sexual puns on President Bush's name at a John Kerry fundraiser got her canned Wednesday as spokeswoman for Slim-Fast weight-loss products.
		Waving a bottle of wine, Goldberg launched her double entendres in New York City last Thursday at a gala that raised $7.5 million for Kerry's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
		Slim-Fast's parting ways with Goldberg over political outspokenness is reminiscent of the Florida Citrus Commission's firing of singer Anita Bryant as a celebrity hawker of orange juice in 1977.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2004-07-14-goldberg-slimfast_x.htm (443 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg
		Goldberg toiled as a bricklayer, bank teller, and funeral parlor cosmetician 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.
		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.
	thelinkto.com /parentmentor/whoopi_goldberg.htm (366 words)

	The Whoopi Goldberg Picture Pages
		Multi-talented stand-up comedienne and actress Whoopi Goldberg received wide recognition with her Academy Award nominated role of Celie in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) and her Academy Award winning role of Oda Mae Brown in the blockbuster romantic Ghost (1990, starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore).
		Whoopi Goldberg, whose trademark are her dreadlocks, wide roguish grin and sharp humor, has hosted the prestigious Academy Awards four times (1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002), making her the only woman to ever do so.
		On stage, Whoopi was seen in the Broadway revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," and then appeared in the center square of the syndicated version of the TV game show "Hollywood Squares," which she also executive produced.
	www.superiorpics.com /whoopi_goldberg (1906 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg - MovieActors.com
		Whoopi Goldberg's defining role was as woman hiding from the mob among nuns in SISTER ACT.
		Whoopi Goldberg won her Supporting Oscar for playing the psychic who can communicate with the ghost (Patrick Swayze).
		Whoopi Goldberg also had a reoccuring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and has hosted several of the Academy Award shows.
	www.movieactors.com /90stars/whoopi.htm (239 words)

	Q&A: Whoopi Goldberg Brings Back 'Comic Relief' - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		Whoopi Goldberg explains why she's brought Comic Relief back after an eight-year hiatus—and offers a few tips on picking your nose.
		Goldberg will be reuniting in Las Vegas on Nov. 18 with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams to put on another Comic Relief, a concert featuring more than 20 comedians that airs at 9 p.m.
		Whoopi Goldberg: I don't think any comics really have done a benefit on a large scale for Katrina victims, which is to say we go to the people and say, 'Listen, send us what you have and we'll make sure 100 percent of it actually gets to people.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15719035/site/newsweek (493 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg
		Whoopi Goldberg plays in a recurring guest star role, as Guinan, the alien humanoid hostess of "Ten Forward," the ship's lounge.
		Whoopi starred in the box-office hit "Sister Act." She also starred in "Sarafina!," a film adaptation of the stage musical, shot on
		Whoopi Goldberg, along with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, have also co-hosted HBO's "Comic Relief" specials, which benefit the nation's homeless.
	www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/gallows/73/startrek/sttng/goldberg.htm (561 words)

	Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whoopi Goldberg has won numerous awards and considerable acclaim for her work in film, television, recordings and theatre.
		Whoopi made her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg's film version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.
		Whoopi has appeared on many television series and specials, including her own HBO specials, three-time host of ABC's A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre and eight Comic Relief telecasts with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams.
	www.wchstv.com /synd_prog/squares/whoopigoldberg.html (720 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hot dog! Whoopi gets a radio show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Goldberg, mother of one and grandmother of two with no radio experience, says she knows "how hard it is to get going in the morning, to get the family in the car and get everyone moving and grooving."
		Goldberg hints that there likely will be a sidekick on her show, but she is mum on the details.
		And Goldberg says her guest-starring role as a former foster mother on NBC's Law and Order: Criminal Intent will be a recurring gig.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-05-09-whoopi-goldberg_x.htm (503 words)

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