The New York Observer » Whoopi Goldberg http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:24:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Andre Leon Talley’s Solitary Suburban Fantasia Involves The Container Store, Planters Peanuts and His S.U.V. New York designers, editors and stylists could die if they held their breath, waiting for an invite to Vogue contributing editor Andre Leon Talley's home in Westchester County. He never has guests, according to his "Dispatch" turn in the Times' Sunday Review.

"It's a sanctuary and I want it to be my own personal Ali Baba cave of delight," he said.

The treasures therein include china and silver from Lena Horne's estate sale and cupboards "jammed" with porcelain from Paris, linens, and crystal, but he's never had a dinner or luncheon party.

If one does score the rare invitation (only in summer), he or she will be received on the front porch, with wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and served iced beverages. There will be "a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jelliyied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre."

Among the other pleasures of the suburban life, according to  Mr. Talley, is driving his S.U.V. to The Container Store at the Westchester mall. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/andre-leon-talleys-solitary-suburban-fantasia-involves-the-container-store-planters-peanuts-and-his-s-u-v/ Manohla Dargis: Whoopi’s ‘Perceived Slight’ Misses the Point Whoopi Goldberg used today's episode of The View to criticize Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott's article on race at this year's Oscars for not mentioning her Best Supporting Actress trophy. Dargis and Scott mention the names of the past decade's seven black Oscar winners (from Halle Berry and Denzel Washington to Mo'Nique) Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/manohla-dargis-whoopis-perceived-slight-misses-point Wooster Act: Whoopi Sells Soho Loft for $2.98 M. Afficionados know that Whoopi Goldberg’s parents didn’t name her Whoopi and their last name wasn’t Goldberg. In fact, she was born Caryn Elaine Johnson, and only took her stage name after someone made a petty joke about flatulence. Her double identity proved a very useful disguise when the bawdy comedienne’s Soho loft sold: City records Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/wooster-act-makin-whoopi-thilling-sale Wooster Act: Whoopi Sells Soho Loft for $2.98 M. Afficianados know that Whoopi Goldberg’s parents didn’t name her Whoopi and their last name wasn’t Goldberg. In fact, she was born Caryn Elaine Johnson, and only took her stage name after someone made a petty joke about flatulence. Her double identity proved a very useful disguise when the bawdy comedienne’s Soho loft sold: City records Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/wooster-act-whoopi-sells-soho-loft-298-m Paterson’s Back-Up Plan, Maybe ALBANY—At the end of his remarks at a holiday fund-raiser last night, David Paterson made a simple declaration: "I am running for governor in 2010."

"If it doesn't work out, I'm going to go on The View. They need a little affirmative action on The View," Paterson said to laughs, according to one Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/unless-he-wins-governors-race-paterson-wants-view Paterson’s Back-Up Plan, Maybe ALBANY—At the end of his remarks at a holiday fund-raiser last night, David Paterson made a simple declaration: "I am running for governor in 2010."

"If it doesn't work out, I'm going to go on The View. They need a little affirmative action on The View," Paterson said to laughs, according to one attendee. Sherri Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/patersons-back-plan-maybe Astor Son Not Entirely Indefensible As it turns out, Anthony Marshall does have people who like him. Scores of them, even. Mr. Marshall is expected to submit 75 sympathetic letters to Judge Kirke A. Bartley today, two months after his defense rested without calling a single witness.

Jurors had apparently been curious to see the names he might marshal in his Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/daily-transom/astor-son-not-entirely-indefensible Emma Bloomberg Campaigns Here’s Michael Bloomberg’s daughter, Emma, speaking at a “Women for Bloomberg” rally yesterday at John Jay College. The event featured Whoopi Goldberg.

Emma delivered a pretty funny opening speech. “God, it’s great to be here. And I say that not only as a founding member of ‘Women for Bloomberg’ but as a charter member of Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/3929/emma-bloomberg-campaigns Bloomberg to The View: Caroline Would Be Great. Others, Too. ALBANY—Michael Bloomberg says he knows who he would appoint to the U.S. Senate, but isn't sharing.

In an appearance this morning on The View, Bloomberg was asked whether he would be supporting Caroline Kennedy in her now-public courtship of David Paterson, following the path of his aide Kevin Sheekey. He said he wasn't going Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/1125/bloomberg-view-caroline-great-others Morning Memo: Nude Carla Bruni Rakes in $91K; ‘Jack Mack’ Attack! Carla Bruni's nude photo taken by Michel Comte sold for $91,000 at Christie's yesterday. [NY Daily News]

The ex-wives of Jason Kidd, Patrick Ewing, and Eddie Murphy were overheard discussing a "First Wives Club" type reality show over drinks at the Gansevoort Hotel. [P6]

Whoopi Goldberg suggested that John McCain call himself Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/morning-memo-4-11-08 Whoopi on Broadway — As Producer Whoopi Goldberg, taking a break from mid-morning gabfests on The View, will co-produce a couple of upcoming theater projects, beginning with a summer Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's 1976 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, starring India.Arie, according to Variety. She's also currently a member of the production Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/whoopi-broadway-producer Blues for Whoopi’s Ma Rainey: Broadway Revival Haunted By Past There are three different shows within the current Broadway revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , and none of them, sad to report, is the great blues drama itself.

Call the first show "The Offstage Show," which is all about the trouble publicly associated with the production-including Charles S. Dutton's damaging declaration that he Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2003/02/blues-for-whoopis-ma-rainey-broadway-revival-haunted-by-past/ There’ll Always Be Oscars, And I’ll Always Be Watching On the eve of the 74th annual

award celebration of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood hills were alive with the sound of discordant music. Indeed, I can't remember a year when the competition was so overloaded with negativity, mostly directed at the alleged sins of omission in the loosely biographical A Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2002/04/therell-always-be-oscars-and-ill-always-be-watching/ Will Lucille Roberts Finally Move Into Woolworth Mansion? Lucille Roberts is not a woman in a hurry. The womens-only-health-club-owner panted over the former mansion of Barbara Hutton (4 East 80th Street) from two doors away for 12 years before buying it for a measly $6 million in 1995. It's taken her five years to renovate the French Renaissance-style home, commissioned by Frank Woolworth Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2000/05/will-lucille-roberts-finally-move-into-woolworth-mansion/ Gerald Levin and Cornel West Engage in Some Serious P.D.A. at the Bradley-Gore Debate Bill Bradley and Al Gore had a fierce debate at the Apollo Theater on Feb. 21 and the winner was … Time Warner Inc.

Time Warner aired the debate exclusively on CNN and various Time Warner journalists ( Time managing editor Walter Isaacson, CNN guy Jeff Greenfield) hogged all the camera time during the post-debate show. Read More

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