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Page HERALD Weibesday April 18 19M Whoopi Goldberg stands out With trademark hairdo and un usual name actresscomedian Goldberg stands out In a crowd She also stands out onstage The New had a cult fol lowing as a standop comedian when director Steven Spielberg caught her onewoman Broadway show and de cided to cast her In The Color Purple As the muchabused wife of a Southern farmer in that film Goldberg received an Oscar nomina tion and won a Golden Globe award Her following films were boxoffice and critical disappointments so Gold berg returned to the stage and ap peared on TV Most recently she has had a recurring role as a bartender who dispenses wisdom and drinks on Star Trek The Next Generation Goldberg Goldberg was a struggling an when director Mike Nichols Working Girl saw her perform on stage and brought her onewoman show to Broadway The album based on that show won Goldberg a Gram- Best Comedy Recording The onetime welfare mother makes her network series debut on the CBS sitcom Bagdad Cafe which is based on the film of the same name Goldberg plays the eccentric owner of a coffee shop in the middle of the sert Jean best known as Edith Bunker on All in the Family helps Goldberg run the cafe Youre working on not one but two television series and you have two feature films coming up plus your one woman stage show and yet another Comic Relief on cable Why do you work so much A Mortgage payments If Bagdad Cafe is a ratings fait and returns next season does that mean fans of Star Trek will have to do without you In the century A I can do both Remember those mortgage payments We tape Bag dad on Fridays I can slip into Star VIDEO PLUS of Georgetown Fruit Marital BRING HOME A STAR THISWEEK- SEA OF LOVE Movies For Sale and i iMeunphst turn a Ontirlo 8774260 MAKE ANY OCCASION SPECIAL Rtserwnmfor or occasion 118 St 8731409 STAR SPEAK Trek after five Star Trek has been really kind to me They let me get to them when I can Wont it be confusing beaming back and forth between Bagdad Cafe and Interstellar space A Jean has more hair than Star Treks Capt so I shouldnt have trouble keeping the two shows straight Plus the cafe doesnt fly first film gave you a star ring role and It earned yon an Oscar nomination The following films havent been nearly so successful as The Color Purple Has your career been anticllmactlc A Before The Color Purple I spent years living in a van All that time I wanted to make films After The Color Purple I got to do that not disappointed in my film ca reer Its been a magic experience A sitcom isnt all that different from standup Its just less pressurized Whoopi Goldberg I gone through the past four to five years The critics have not been kind to your films after The Color Purple and the public has largely Ignored them A I ve been called many things but never a flash in the pan know I haven lived up to the expectations many people had that would become the female Eddie Murphy Well Im not Eddie Murphy My films dont make a dollars but I haven done anything Im ashamed of The critics hated Fatal Beauty and Jumpin Jack Flash but when 1 on tour people come up to me and say they loved those movies That makes me feet good a standop comedian you get to control the material and your per Winston at Norn Ontario AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE 79 MAIM ST S 8773388 As an actress have to follow the script and take orders from a director Which do prefer A Acting allows me to collaborate with other people and that takes the pressure off my shoulders to come up with a joke But even so a sitcom Isnt all that different from stand up Its just less pressurized I read mat you took a small sup porting role on Star Trek The Next Generation because you were a big fan of the original series A Most futuristic films don show many black people Thats what I liked about the original Star Trek They bad a black woman on the bridge It showed that our people had made it into the 24th century Thats why I was a and still am How did you come to change your name from Karen Johnson to Whoopi Goldberg A God gave it to me I was standing In the garden and a burning bush said that perhaps Karen Johnson was tot the way to go Actually when I get nervous onstage I make a spitting noise like a whoople cushion For a while I went by that name but my mom said being called Whoople Cus ion was not a good career move so I ended up taking my mothers maiden name Goldberg When you did the first Comic Relfef to raise money for the home less did you ever think youd be doing four of them A I didnt want to do a Comic Re lfef 2 or 3 I hoped the government would step In after the first one We also hoped the government would match the funds we raised Its a bitch to have to do it again Last year we raised million I think that shows the American people are sick and tired of the homeless on the street The government should be spending money on them instead of sending it to Nicaragua and Panama lit NEWSPAPER 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