

She continued, “You have Basketball Wives, you have the Housewives of whatever, all the Bravo shows, they give you the impression that you’re doing something wrong because you’re living your life. When The Color Purple arrived in theaters in 1985, Winfrey wasn’t the media mogul and superstar she is today. Soon afterward she made her Hollywood debut in The Color Purple (1985), for which she garnered an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award. She added that she has told ABC, “it had nothing to do with them.”Įarlier during the discussion, the EGOT winner also brought up other popular reality television shows, saying, “People like to be judgy.”

Goldberg also explained that she was referring to American Idol when it ran on Fox from 2002 to 2016 and said that “it’s a very different show” now, with new judges.
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“They invited the public to decide who that person was, and I feel once we did that, it began us in a cycle which we have not. Upcoming The Color Purple movie musical promises its not your mamas version and features magical realism. Winfrey, in contrast, had been hosting a morning show called AM Chicago and Quincy Jones, the film’s composer and one of its producers, spotted her on television while he was in town. “Once we gave people the ability to judge other people, I think we ran amok with it, and it’s gone out of control,” The Color Purple actress said. The biggest name in the film was Goldberg, who had gained acclaim and buzz from her one-woman show, Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway. THE COLOR PURPLE, Whoopi Goldberg, 1985, ©Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection The Proud Mary singer continued, I mean, I’m talking always to the press about my life and now to do a. Goldberg quickly clarified that American Idol “was not always on ABC,” after Teta pointed out that The View and the reality show share the same network. Jeremy Strong on Kendall Roy's 'Succession' Fate: "He's Stuck in a Silent Scream Forever" The Color Purple : Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey, Akosua Busia, Willard Pugh, Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones:.
