Whoopi Goldberg Articles

Thandie Newton, Whoopi Goldberg, For Colored Girls MEGAMIND Has Solid But Unspectacular Opening. Another HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON? At no. 2 this weekend, Todd Phillips‘ poorly received R-rated comedy Due Date pulled in $33.5m at 3,355 theaters, or $9,985 per site, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Starring Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis, Due Date’s take was lower than the [...]

Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act Whoopi Goldberg, who won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Ghost (1990), has quit the London production of the musical Sister Act. After learning that her mother had suffered a stroke, the actress decided to fly back to the U.S. Replacing veteran stage performer Sheila Hancock, Goldberg, 54, was scheduled to play the Mother Superior in the musical until the [...]

Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze in Ghost Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, died from complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday in Los Angeles. Swayze was 57. The Texan-born Swayze (on Aug. 18, 1952, in Houston), whose background included classical dance training, became a star after playing the romantic lead in the sleeper hit Dirty Dancing (1987), directed by Emile Ardolino and co-starring Jennifer [...]