Term Papers on Whoopi Goldberg

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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Golberg is a truly legendary actress.  What whoopi has overcome to be what she

is today contributed to her numerous efforts to make life better for all humankind.  Many

of her public service contributions include raising money for the homeless people of

America, needy people in areas where natural disasters strike, and entertaining children

in hospitals.  A major

accomplishment by Whoopi, was making millions of people laugh.  Making people

laugh is what Whoopi does best and she uses this talent to aid people all over the world.
     At the  age of eight, Caryn Johnson, Whoopi’s original name, was performing with the
     Children's Program at the Hudson Guild and the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre in
New York City.  Whoopi had difficult times as a child, while she grew up in a public housing
project in Manhattan.   She struggled to get by as a bricklayer, bank teller and funeral parlor
make-up artist
At the same time, she appeared in bit Broadway parts such as Pippin, Hair, and Jesus Christ
Superstar.  Whoopi
made some mistakes early in her life.  As a high school drop out and “hippie”, she managed to
get married and gain a nasty heroin addiction.  Soon thereafter, Whoopi got divorced and kicked
her drug habits.  Whoopi picked up and left for a planned week long trip to San Diego  with her
daughter Alexandrea.  Her week long trip turned into a  6 year stopover.
      While in San Diego, Whoopi helped found and  appeared in the San Diego Repertory
Theatre's productions of Brecht's Mother Courage and Marsha Norman's Getting Out. Most
importantly, her comedic skills were honed with an improv group called Spontaneous

Combustion. This is when Whoopi came up with her stage name, Whoopi Cushion.  After taking
the advice from her mother, she changed Cushion to Goldberg.
     Later, Whoopi packed her bags ,tagged "The Bay or Bust" and headed to San Fransisco
Once
she arrived, Whoopi joined the Blake Street Hawkeyes Theatre in Berkeley, partnered with
David Schein. Moving shortly into solo performances, Goldberg created The Spook Show which
firstplayed San Francisco and then toured the United States and Europe. Glorious dues were
quickly being paid off.  While performing Spook Show at the Dance Theatre Workshop in New
York, she was discovered by director Mike Nichols, who lead her breakthrough solo
Broadway production in 1984. It was an evening of original material, written and created by
Whoopi,
which opened at the Lyceum Theatre to gain critical acclaim. People that could not get tickets
were able to watch the New York show were treated to the HBO special, Whoopi Goldberg:
Direct From
Broadway. The record album of her Broadway show won a Grammy Award as Best Comedy
Recording of the Year in 1985.    At this point, Whoopi gained fame an worldwide recognition as
a comedian, and continued her work primarily as a comedian.  She briefly returned to San
Francisco to star as Moms
Mabley in Moms, a one-woman show which she also co-wrote.  The next year, she made a
dramatic debut in Steven Spielberg's film version of
Alice Walker's The Color Purple, a performance that earned her the Best Actress Golden Globe,
an Academy Award nomination, and the NAACP's Image Award for Best Actress in a Motion
Picture.
     She has since appeared in a steady stream of popular motion pictures, including Jumping
Jack Flash, Fatal Beauty, where she won another  NAACP Image Award, Clara's Heart, Ghost,
for which she
took home a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, a Golden Globe, a third Image Award, the British
Academy Award, an American Comedy Award and the Saturn Award. Whoopi’s success and
fame never altered her work.   She entertained America because it was what she loved to do.
When America proved how she was loved by nominating her for numerous awards, she realized
that she had a service of making people laugh, in some instances cry, most of all, she entertained
America during good times and bad, and unlike many entertainers, she kept working even a...

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