Whoopi Goldberg ( /ˈhwʊpi/, born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race. She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Doolittle in Jumpin' Jack Flash. More recently, she had performed the voice of Stretch in Toy Story 3 and made an appearance in Glee as Carmen Tibideaux.
Sylvester Stallone: You know, I played an overweight cop once.::Arnold Schwarzenegger: I played a Kindergarten cop.::Michael Jackson: Did somebody say Kindergarten?
Sean Connery: I'm Sean... double-O-7... I'm Sean!
Benjamin: Jesus! What, did you steal that off a horse?
Howard: That pig smells like old people.
Brooks: You know why I like movies? I like them because of the experience they bring. Reading is designed to stimulate the mind. Music is designed to alter emotions. But movies... movies are designed for one thing. To escape.
Francis Federman Ugli: Put the retard down!
Plot
A film festival experience as seen through the eyes of actor Andy Bowles and his team of red carpet anchors as they cover a 10 day celebrity filled event. Featuring such stars as Dennis Quaid, Peter Fonda, Larry Hagman, Summer Glau, Barry Corbin, G.W. Bailey, Judy Reyes, Glenn Morshower, Morgan Spurlock, Buck Taylor and many many more.
A Film Festival Experience
Plot
From Elvis to Obama, Celebrity Impersonators or Tribute Artists as they are commonly known have been entertaining the masses for decades. Gathering under one roof, these men and women, professionals and beginners alike, come together annually at the Sunburst Convention. De Niro, Bush, and Oprah are names that have inspired thousands if not millions of people to dream of greater possibilities in their own lives, but some have chosen to become these very names or at least to impersonate them. When fans cannot get close to the real thing, these professionals step in and fill the void. "Just About Famous: Celebrity Impersonation" will go behind the persona and delve into the minds and hearts of the people who make a living impersonating others. How did they get started? How has this path changed their lives? Why they do what they do? From Kenny Rogers being accosted at K-Mart for an autograph to Elvis being announced every time he enters the Home Depot leaving him to ask the ultimate question, 'Can't I just buy some lumber?' Each impersonator has a story to tell. As the old adage goes, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.' Take a trip into the intriguing, enlightening, and often times surreal life of the celebrity impersonator...
A film about famous people....well, almost.
Impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Are you Just About Famous?
Plot
In this high-adventure sequel the baby geniuses find themselves at the center of a nefarious scheme led by powerful media mogul Bill Biscane. Joining the babies in their battle against evil is a legendary baby named Kahuna. Part ultra-cool spy, part superhero, Kahuna joins babies Archie, Finkleman, Alex and Rosita in a race against time to stop the villainous Biscane from using his state-of-the-art satellite system to control the minds of the world's population.
Keywords: baseball, computer, critically-bashed, good-versus-evil, mind-control, science-experiment, second-part, sequel
The New Dirty Dozen... Time For A Change!
Meet the new generation of superheroes
Don't drive, crawl!
America's favorite talking babies are back!
Kahuna: So it's true what they say, there is nothing good on TV.
Kahuna: Why don't you try picking on someone half your size?::Tascha: Who the heck are you?::Kahuna: Your worst enemy, a small fry with a big attitude.
Stan Bobbins: We'll become the McDonalds of babies.::Jean Bobbins: [sarcastic] Great, we'll be known as McBaby.
Kahuna: Switch the mind control message to freedom control, they don't have to sit around watching TV all day.
Crowe: Don't you worry, little baby, I'll feed you, I'll take care of you, I'll even change your diaper.::Bill Biscane: I'm warning you, Crowe, I'm Bill Biscane and if you touch my diapers you're fired.
Bill Biscane: Kahuna? Kahuna is here! Suddenly I'm feeling weak.::Tascha: Then sit down.::Crowe: Oh, sir...::Bill Biscane: Get me something!::Crowe: What can I get you, sir?::Bill Biscane: A soda pop.::Crowe: Diet or regular?::Bill Biscane: What's the difference? [to Tascha] Feel my head. Is it hot? Is it cold? Tell me the truth.::Tascha: It's perfectly normal.::Bill Biscane: Normal? What do you know? You are not a real doctor... where's my soda pop? [gets his soda pop with an umbrella] Give me my globe. I don't want this umbrella.
Plot
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy. Celebrities are talking about him on MTV and girls are fighting over him on Jerry Springer. It's everything that he wanted...his plan worked. A week or so later the LAPD is tipped off about his whereabouts and they break down the door of the seedy motel room that he's hiding out in and throw him in LA County's celebrity wing.
Keywords: actor-director, actor-name-in-title, actor-playing-himself, black-comedy, celebrity, character-name-in-title, claim-in-title, death, directed-by-star, faking-own-death
Hollywood will never be the same.
Pauly Shore: Is there a part in there for me? Hey, is there a part in there for me?
Pauly Shore: Hey, aren't you Tom Sizemore?::Michael Madsen's girlfriend: No, this is Michael Madsen.::Pauly Shore: What's the difference?::Michael Madsen's girlfriend: Six inches.
Pauly Shore: FUCK YOU SANDLER!::Adam Sandler: [Offscreen, in a mocking voice] Fuck you Sandler! Fuck you Sandl... AHHH HORSESHIT!
Plot
This 5 part musical special was produced by VH1 and NBC and aired in the fall of 1999 to mark Saturday Night Live's 25th Anniversary. Each special covered 5 years of SNL's history and featured musical performances and music themed comedy sketches from the respective period. Host - 1975-80 Chevy Chase, Host 1980-85 Martin Short, Host - 1985-90 Al Franken, Host 1990-95 Jay Mohr, Host 1995-99 Cheri Oteri
Keywords: hip-hop, rap, sketch-comedy
Plot
Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Director's Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee.
Keywords: amazing-grace-the-hymn, box-office-flop, cameo, celebrity, character-name-in-title, director, fake-documentary, film-director, film-industry, film-producer
The movie Hollywood doesn't want you to see
Great Cans. Great Movies.
Sylvester Stallone: Look, I'm doing this for free so don't bust my balls, okay?
Sylvester Stallone: Yo! Adrian! You know we never... and we had a kid so it was an immaculate ejection.
Alan Smithee: It's worse than "Showgirls"!
Sylvester Stallone: Don't fuck with me!::Jackie Chan: Don't fuck with me!::Whoopi Goldberg: Don't fuck with me!::Sylvester Stallone, Jackie Chan, Whoopi Goldberg: Don't fuck with us!
Alan Smithee: [during an editing session] No, no, no! You've sodomised it!
Alan Smithee: [beating his head] I cut the picture. They cut the picture. I didn't cut the picture. They cut the picture...
Alan Smithee: An Actor, he says. And I think: "Certainly he is. This is LA. EVERYONE'S an Actor."
Whoopi Goldberg: I like working with directors. And I've saved a lot of their jobs. And they've saved a few of my performances...
Jackie Chan: I don't die. Even if I die, I come back with Reincarnation, so I don't die!
Shane Black: I got my script back and didn't recognize a single word of it.