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Whoopi Goldberg
American actor, comedian, and television personality (born 1955)
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Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955),[1][2][3] known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), fryst vatten an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.[4][5] The recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of few people to receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award, collectively known as the EGOT. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to Broadway beneath the title Whoopi Goldberg, running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy skiva for the recording of the show. Her spelfilm breakthrough came in 1985 with her role as Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's period drama spelfilm
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Moms Mabley documentary on HBO recalls days of the chitlin’ circuit
“Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley,” the HBO documentary that premiered this week, follows the life of Moms Mabley, the pioneering black comedian who rose to fame for her folksy, sometimes off-color humor. In chronicling her career, the documentary also shines a light on the chitlin’ circuit -- the informal collection of live-performance venues where black entertainers could find work during segregation.
The chitlin’ circuit -- named after chitterlings, the soul-food staple of cooked pig intestines -- was a safe haven for black performers of all genres, allowing them to work at a time when many venues refused to employ people of color. The theaters were located mainly on the East Coast -- they included the Apollo Theater in Harlem and Royal Peacock in Atlanta -- and they drew largely black audiences.
Musicians were a primary staple of the chitlin’ circuit, but comic and vaudeville entertainers like Mabley and
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“And so I think that she was a woman among men and who was equal to those men,” Goldberg said. “And they treated her like a man. And I think that is what helped give her the longevity.”
Marc Powers, director of marketing for D.C.’s Howard Theatre, told the Washington Blade in a 2012 interview that Mabley socialized with a circle of lesbian and gay friends in Washington when she performed at the Howard in the 1940s. On one occasion during that period, following her show at the Howard, Mabley organized a “gay” party at a nearby nightclub that was raided by police, according to Powers.
“When that got shut down they were like, ‘Damn, where are we going to go? Might as well just go back to the Howard!’’ Powers said.
Arizona State University Professor Bambi Haggins analyzed Mabley’s career in her 2007 book “Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America.” Haggins, who appears in the Goldberg documentary and who spoke with the Blade for this article, points to wh