Hollywood Deep

Normally I could care less about the ridiculous woman’s daytime talk show The View. I’m not sure how women even can stomach those broads yacking it up every day. Since my friend Whoopi Goldberg has replaced blow hard, Rosie O’Donnell, I thought I would wish her luck. Whoopi has had it a little rough the past few years. She hasn’t gotten any movie or TV roles, and her stand up comedy dates have dwindled to nothing. She is a great actor, and I think could have a lot to offer to a movie or TV as a comedic presence. I don’t feel like she can carry a show or movie anymore, but she certainly can be a supporting actress for comedy relief. She went and did a stand up at Madison Square Garden during the Democratic National Convention, ripping George Bush and his administration a new a** hole. John Kerry ultimately had to apologize for it, and it seems like Whoopi hasn’t worked at all since.
She’s an Academy Award winning actress, for God’s sake, and she can’t get a job. I worked with Whoopi on one of my first jobs in the business. I was a PA who ran first team on the movie “Ghost”. Running first team means you deal with the actors on a daily basis. Making sure they are taken care of, getting them important information, and telling them where they have to be when. Whoopi and I hit it off right away, she’s one of the nicest and greatest ladies in show business.
I was asked by the producers of the movie to be an extra in the film. The Director, Jerry Zucker, also liked me and wanted me to play one of the movers at the beginning of the movie. It was fun, I was naive and thought it would be cool to be in the movie. I also had to do my regular job those 3 days, running around in costume, and jumping in front of the camera when needed. After my extra bit was done, the next week I was informed by the same Producers that they couldn’t pay me to be an extra as well as my regular pay. I was told that it was against Paramount Pictures policy and that regardless that I did both jobs, I had to pick one. So I did , but I wasn’t happy about it. Whoopi recognized that I was pissed, so I told her what happened, and she flipped out. I tell you I never seen someone raise so much hell, so quickly. She dropped everything she was doing and marched right into the producers office, with me there, and called him an asshole. She told him that he better get me paid, or else she wasn’t going to lift another finger for him. He was embarrassed and said he would see what he could do, and tried to calm her down. She went off again, this time calling him a f***ing asshole, and whipping 6 hundred dollar bills, and handed them to me. She told him, ‘now you owe the money to me jerkoff, and I expect to be paid back.’
I heard about a week later, that she got paid back. I thought the producer was going to give me hell after that, but he never gave me a hard time again, and was a lot more respectful to me and the job I was doing. Whoopi won an Academy Award for her role in “Ghost”.
Whoopi Goldberg is good people, and a true Hollywood heroine. To me the Lindsay Lohans, and Paris Hiltons, and Jennifer Lopezs in todays Hollywood should wish they were a little more like Whoopi. Too bad she has to be on that annoying show, but it’s a gig. All the best Whoopi, give em hell.
…Totally DEEP!

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