Black Oscar Winner & First Female Host Is Not A Happy CamperI still remember 2002 when Whoopi was hosting the otherwise extremely vanilla Academy Awards. That was the year that Halle Berry made history as the first non-white female to win Best Actress for her so-so portrayal in Monster's Ball, and my man Denzel Washington took home Best Actor honors for Training Day.
Since the 80th Annual Hollywood self-congratulatory event was made of about 85% retrospective clips, it meant that viewers were forced to watch every "moment" from Oscar history on Sunday.
Since the 80th Annual Hollywood self-congratulatory event was made of about 85% retrospective clips, it meant that viewers were forced to watch every "moment" from Oscar history on Sunday.
Except one, everything Whoopi Goldberg ever did. Despite her Best Supporting Actress win for "Ghost" - and being the Oscars host on four separate occasions between 1994 and 2001 - there was almost no sign of Whoopi Goldberg anywhere in all the endless montages on Sunday. And that made Whoopi Goldberg cry. On The View no less!
Shame on you Academy... Ladies let's rally around our sistah'. Given the political climate of America, with a woman and an African American quite possibly being our next president, you have some nerve. Someone hit me with the idrect email address of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Science, to complain about this unforgivable and obvious intentional slap in the face.
It went down on THE VIEW like this:
"Maybe they accidentally lost a clip of you hosting. ... But I think it's wrong," Elisabeth Hasselbeck said. Joy Behar said "being slighted is never fun." Sherri Shepherd wondered if Goldberg had made someone mad.
"Undoubtedly," Goldberg said, smiling. "Undoubtedly I (bleeped) somebody off yet again. You know what, I don't -- I don't know."
"Hey, we think you're a great host," reassured Barbara Walters, the creator of the ABC chatfest."I think we should do our own montage of you to make up for it," Hasselbeck said.
"This makes up for it," Goldberg responded, before getting up and kissing each co-host on the cheek. She and Walters then embraced.
Then again, as the women on The View pointed out, Whoopi Goldberg was only the second black woman to win an Oscar and the first woman to host the Oscars at all, which does make her slightly significant. Maybe the clip researchers should have double-checked their list to make sure they weren't leaving anyone important out.
Or maybe - just maybe - the only person in the entire world who even slightly cares about any of this is Whoopi Goldberg, and everyone else is happy that she was left out of all the montages because it made the Oscars five or six seconds shorter than they otherwise would have been.
Or maybe - just maybe - the only person in the entire world who even slightly cares about any of this is Whoopi Goldberg, and everyone else is happy that she was left out of all the montages because it made the Oscars five or six seconds shorter than they otherwise would have been.
Still, though, Whoopi Goldberg's tearful reaction to the snub just shines a light on the difference between her and her predecessor on The View. Because if Rosie O'Donnell had hosted the Oscars and missed out on a montage clip, the Kodak Theatre would be a mess of rubble, steel and fragments of Jack Nicholson's skull by now.
Shame on you Academy... Ladies let's rally around our sistah'. Given the political climate of America, with a woman and an African American quite possibly being our next president, you have some nerve. Someone hit me with the idrect email address of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Science, to complain about this unforgivable and obvious intentional slap in the face.It went down on THE VIEW like this:
"Maybe they accidentally lost a clip of you hosting. ... But I think it's wrong," Elisabeth Hasselbeck said. Joy Behar said "being slighted is never fun." Sherri Shepherd wondered if Goldberg had made someone mad.
"Undoubtedly," Goldberg said, smiling. "Undoubtedly I (bleeped) somebody off yet again. You know what, I don't -- I don't know."
"Hey, we think you're a great host," reassured Barbara Walters, the creator of the ABC chatfest."I think we should do our own montage of you to make up for it," Hasselbeck said.
"This makes up for it," Goldberg responded, before getting up and kissing each co-host on the cheek. She and Walters then embraced.