Articles tagged with: Whoopi Goldberg
Christian Bale's Terminator rant is easily the best thing to happen to the world in about five years - fact. But what's also fact is it's not universally loved. The sad truth is that some saps can't take pleasure from a recording of a prick being a prick to a prick. And, inevitably, most of those people are famous. So far, Whoopi Goldberg and Terry Crews have stood up for Christian Bale, building hopes that there'll soon be an all-star charity concert to raise awareness of the rights of unbearably dickish actors with indeterminate accents so. Fingers crossed it's called AH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH-Aid.
This is just a hunch, but we think Whoopi Goldberg might be having a competition with herself to find the most inappropriate time to mention her Oscar win.
Up until now Whoopi hadn't been doing so well, only talking about winning an Oscar on the day after the Oscars. But that was before Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
You see, Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Swayze starred together in Ghost, the movie that Whoopi Goldberg won her Oscar for. And yesterday on The View, Whoopi paid tribute to Patrick Swayze by claiming that she wouldn't have won her Oscar if it wasn't for him. Which we're sure will brighten Patrick's day immeasurably, unless he happens to have something more important on his mind at the moment.
Since this year's Oscars were made of about 85% retrospective clips, it meant that viewers were forced to watch every last self-congratulatory moment from Oscar history on Sunday.
Except one - thanks to a heartbreaking oversight, Vassilis Fotopoulos' speech after winning the Best Art Direction Oscar for Zorba The Greek in 1964 was cruelly omitted from the proceedings.
Oh, and everything Whoopi Goldberg ever did. Despite winning an Oscar - and being the Oscars host on four separate occasions between 1994 and 2001 - there was no sign of Whoopi Goldberg anywhere in all the endless montages on Sunday. And that made Whoopi Goldberg cry. On TV. Video after the jump.
We can all agree that Daniel Day Lewis deserved to pick up his second Oscar this week for There Will Be Blood. But let's face it, there have been some people who shouldn't even have been let in the building, never mind win the award.
In recent years, standards have certainly slipped. In fact, the way things are looking, even the likes of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Sir Roger Moore, and perhaps Big Mo from EastEnders stand a fleeting chance at Oscar glory. So let us present the Oscar-winning performances that surely should never have been...
