Actress Glenn Close recently opened up about not winning an Oscar despite 8 nominations. In a chat with the Associated Press, the 74-year-old actress got candid about being nominated for eight Oscars, and how she feels about not winning them.
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Actress and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg is on the new cover of Variety, and in the issue she looks back on her Oscars acceptance speech for “Ghost” 30 years later.
“I looked really good,” she recalls. “My hair was cool. Dress was cute.”
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She adds, “I couldn’t look glamorous like other people look glamorous. I wasn’t thin and I wasn’t a white lady, so I had to find my own style.”
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Actress Glenn Close recently opened up about not winning an Oscar despite 8 nominations. In a chat with the Associated Press, the 74-year-old actress got candid about being nominated for eight Oscars, and how she feels about not winning them.
Glenn Close is very proud of herself – and she doesn’t need an Oscar trophy to prove it!
November death of her husband, Alex Trebek. The pair tied the knot in 1990 and shared two children. Now, in her first televised interview since the host's death, Jean, 56, opens up about what it meant to both her and the TV personality to get the support of his fans during his cancer battle. Jean speaks with Savannah Guthrie for the NBC News special,, and a preview clip of the interview was featured on Wednesday's show. «I think right now, talking with you, I'm good,» she says.
Variety for a wide-reaching profile piece to celebrate 30 years since she won her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the supernatural love story Ghost.During the interview, she talked about some of her upcoming projects including a superhero movie she’s writing about “an older Black woman who acquires new powers and has to learn to use them”.“Since I was a little kid, I’ve been obsessed with superheroes,” Goldberg said. “They’re all saving the earth all the time.
“Nomadland” and now, Chloé Zhao’s film has scored Oscar gold.“We thank all of the hearts and hands that come together to make this movie,” Zhao, 39, said Sunday from LA’s Union Station.She also thanks “all the people we met on the road” … “for reminding us what true kindness looks like.”Predicted to be the favorite of the night, “Nomadland” beat out eight other films for the evening’s top honors.
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Whoopi Goldberg wants in on the superhero trend.
Angelique Jackson As the 2021 Oscars prepare to go hostless for the third year in a row, Whoopi Goldberg shares what it takes to emcee the biggest night in movies.The 1991 best supporting actress Oscar winner has also hosted the Academy Awards four times, making history as the first (and still only) Black woman to emcee the broadcast solo in 1994 and hosting again in 1996, 1999 and 2002.“I had a great time,” Goldberg tells Variety of her experiences hosting the show.
Ghost actor is currently writing won't look like your typical Avengers fare, a.k.a a bunch of straight white dudes running around in tights. No, instead, an older Black woman will be at the center of the storyline.
Whoopi Goldberg is pulling up her own chair to the realm of superhero films. The 65-year-old actress and often outspoken co-host of "The View" revealed to Variety that she is actively underway penning a script for an original superhero film centered on an older Black woman who acquires superhuman powers but has to teach herself how to control and use them.
Whoopi Goldberg is looking back on her Oscar win in 1990.