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HBO Acquires U.S. TV Rights To Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘Moms Mabley’ Documentary

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 10:35am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, HBO Documentary Films, Moms Mabley I Got Somethin' To Tell You, Whoopi Goldberg

HBO has acquired all U.S. broadcast and home video rights to Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You. The feature-length documentary from director Whoopi Goldberg will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday and will debut exclusively on HBO later this year. The film explores the iconic stand-up comedienne’s legacy through recently unearthed photography, rediscovered performance footage and the words of comedians, entertainers and historians, including Eddie Murphy, Joan Rivers, Sidney Poitier, Kathy Griffin, Harry Belafonte, Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Mabley tackled topics such as gender, sex and racism, making her one of the first triple X-rated comedians on the comedy circuit. Once billed as “The Funniest Woman in the World”,  she performed on stage and in television and film up until her death in 1975. Goldberg also exec produces along with Tom Leonardis and George Schlatter.

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‘Glee’ Enlists Whoopi Goldberg & Lindsay Lohan

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 27, 2012 @ 2:46pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Glee, Lindsay Lohan, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

Whoopi Goldberg is joining Fox dramedy Glee for a multi-episode arc, while tabloid fixture and occasional actress Lindsay Lohan will appear in one episode. According to our sister site TVLine, which has the news, Goldberg will play Carmen Tibideaux, a … Read More »

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Raven-Symoné To Star In ‘Sister Act’ On Broadway

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 7:06am PSTTags: Raven Symone, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Two decades after she made her Broadway debut at the age of 5 singing with the Boys Choir of Harlem, Raven-Symoné is back on stage as the star of a Broadway musical. The actress-singer is set to take over … Read More »

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HAMMOND: Gil Cates, A Man For All Oscars

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Academy Awards, Billy Crystal, David Letterman, DGA, Geffen Playhouse, Gil Cates, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg
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R.I.P. Oscar Producer Gilbert Cates

Among his many accomplishments, Gil Cates obviously will be known as the person who produced more Oscar shows than any one in the history of the Academy. Talk to any producer who has done it just once or twice and you will get this astonished look when you tell them Gil Cates did it 14 times in the last two decades. And with his always calm and cool manner, he made it look so easy. Perhaps that is why every producer doing the show in Gil’s off years always sought out his advice — and he always happily gave it as he told me when I interviewed him exactly one year ago about his memories on being the man behind so many Oscarcasts. “I’ve had lunch with each producer and producing team going back to my off years,”  he told me. “The one thing I’ve told everybody is the Oscars is such a big show that no matter what you do there are gonna be people who like it and people who don’t. The most important thing is to do a show you like. There’s no way to get out totally alive. Do a show they find unique and fun and special. That’s a victory.”

Gil Cates had a lot of victories in his long career. As a former president of the DGA, its current secretary/treasurer and its chief negotiator for the last four contracts; as founder of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television; founder and artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse; as director and producer of such multiple-Oscar-nominated films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and I Never Sang For My Father; as well as so many TV films that made a lasting mark on the medium. There’s so much more, but my own personal connection (aside from attending the great theater he oversaw at the Geffen) has always been with the Oscars, and on those occasions when I got to talk to him or interview him I was like a kid in a candy store listening to his stories (sorry, some I just can’t print — off the record). His last show aired in 2008, the year No Country For Old Men won Best Picture. But this was also the year of the writers strike that KO’d the Golden Globes and put a dark cloud over the Oscars until just 12 days before the show was to air, when it was settled. But Cates, with his usual calm of a master negotiator and problem solver, had a Plan A (with all the stars in a strike-free show) and a Plan B (with no stars but a heavy emphasis on history and clips) ready to go, essentially prepping two different shows simultaneously, depending on events out of his control. It’s a good thing he was in charge because a lesser or more inexperienced producer might have cracked under the pressure. Not Gil. In the end, he produced a classy, star-studded show as usual but was ready to deliver whatever cards were dealt. Read More »

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Artios Awards Nominees Announced

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 3:12pm PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Whoopi Goldberg

The Casting Society of America unveiled nominations for its 27th annual Artois Awards, recognizing the best in casting. The honors will be bestowed Sept. 26 in simultaneous ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton in L.A. and at District 36 in New York. The CSA also is giving lifetime achievement awards to Whoopi Goldberg (the New York Apple Award), Dick Wolf (the Career Achievement Award) and Meg Liberman (the Hoyt Bowers Award). Here’s the full list of nominees: Read More »

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Whoopi Goldberg And Bill O’Reilly Discuss The ‘View’ Walkout On ‘The O’Reilly Factor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 23, 2010 @ 1:02pm PSTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime TV, Joy Behar The View, The O'Reilly Factor Video, TV, Video, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

Six weeks ago, Bill O’Reilly’s visit to The View while promoting his new book led to co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walking off stage. Tonight, Goldberg visits O’Reilly on his Fox News talk show to promote her new book. And of course, they talk about the incident. Here … Read More »

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Now Stephen Colbert Walks Off ‘The View’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 2:40pm PDTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime Talk Shows, Joy Behar The View, Stephen Colbert, The View, The View Video, TV, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

Funny man Stephen Colbert channeled his idol Bill “Papa Bear” O’Reilly in his faceoff with The View co-hosts today in a segment capped by a “Whoopi Goldberg/Joy Behar” moment, in which Colbert briefly walked off the stage.

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‘View’ Co-Hosts Discuss O’Reilly Walk-Off

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 11:50am PDTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime Talk Shows, Joy Behar The View, The View, The View Video, TV, Video, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

A lot calmer View co-hosts spent 4 minutes today reminiscing about Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s infamous walk-off during the interview with Bill O’Reilly on Thursday. “On this show, we all talk about standing up to bigotry, so I stood out,” was Behar’s comment. “I hit my saturation point… I … Read More »

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Joy Behar & Bill O’Reilly Talk ‘View’ Spat

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 15, 2010 @ 1:04pm PDTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime Talk Shows, Ground Zero Mosque Controversy, Joy Behar, The O'Reilly Factor, The O'Reilly Factor Video, The View, TV, Video, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

Both Joy Behar and Bill O’Reilly have primetime talk shows and used them last night to comment on the heated exchange during O’Reilly’s visit to The View yesterday that resulted in co-hosts Behar and Whoopi  Goldberg walking off the stage. Behar stayed on a war path, saying that O’Reilly “had a real pinhead moment” and attacking his position on the Ground Zero mosque in an interview with Jesse Ventura on her eponymous HLN show. Meanwhile, O’Reilly was surprisingly subdued on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, playing a long clip from The View followed by a short statement that ended with “I loved that exposition today. Didn’t you?” There will be more dissection of the incident on Monday’s edition of The View, ABC just announced. Why, this couldn’t be a ratings ploy, could it? (Today’s edition of the chat show was pre-taped): Read More »

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Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Storm Off ‘The View’ Over Bill O’Reilly Comments

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 14, 2010 @ 12:22pm PDTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime Talk Shows, Daytime TV, Ground Zero Mosque Controversy, Joy Behar, The View, The View Video, TV, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

What happens if you put Bill O’Reilly on a couch with five outspoken women and throw in a hot-button issue like the Ground Zero mosque? Guaranteed mayhem. And that’s exactly what happened today on ABC’s The View.

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