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Originally posted by frala Let's just say that's carried her career.
Whoopi Goldberg's 10 Best Movies, According to Rotten Tomatoes
Whoopi Goldberg has had an incredible career over the years. Here's what Rotten Tomatoes says are her best films.
BY KEITH LANGSTON
PUBLISHED MAY 10, 2020
Very few actors have reached the level of success and fame that Whoopi Goldberg has. She is one of only 15 people ever who has an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) and is one of only three women who have won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album.
Whoopi Goldberg is a beloved figure in Hollywood, and in total, her films have grossed nearly $4 billion dollars worldwide. Now, using the review-aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, here are the ten most critically acclaimed films of Goldberg's decade-spanning career.
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Sister Act (1992) - 73%
When Reno lounge singer, Deloris, witnesses a mob hit, she's forced into witness protection. Her "new life" is as a nun in a sleepy convent where both the nuns and the congregation have lost the joy and spirit of worship. It's up to Deloris to reinvent the church to be more relevant in the rapidly changing 90s. While Sister Act was extremely popular, its sequel is what's most remembered by fans - but despite its massive popularity, the sequel was actually critically panned, holding just a 7% rating on RT. It was also revealed that Sister Act 3 is being made for Disney+.
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Ghost (1990) - 73%
Ghost is was earned Goldberg her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. In the film, she plays Oda May Brown, a con woman who claims she can talk to spirits. However, one day, she really can hear the voice of a dead man...and he tells her that she needs to warn his wife that she's in danger. Ghost is best remembered for the famous pottery scene, and Whoopi Goldberg's line, "Molly...You in danger, girl."
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Boys On The Side (1995) - 74%
Boys on the Side was a somewhat controversial film when it was released. Goldberg, along with Drew Barrymore and Mary-Louise Parker, plays a group of friends that come together by chance. The girls wind up on the run after the accidental manslaughter of an abusive boyfriend.
While traveling across the country, the girls form a tight friendship, and it's revealed that one of them has HIV. For 1995, it was controversial and shocking to be using women to tell a story of HIV, a disease that society had believed was only for gay men.
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The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004) - 78%
The Lion King 1 1/2 is a very interesting concept. The movie focused on Timon and Pumbaa and their adventures that took place before, during, and after the events of the original Lion King film. Not only was the plotline of the movie unique, but so was its release strategy.
The movie was straight-to-video, yet received a massive marketing push, with The Disney Channel pubbing it heavily, and even a marketing campaign with McDonald's. Upon release, the move sold 1.5 million copies on the first day alone.
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The Color Purple (1985) - 81%
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Steven Spielberg's film centered around a black woman named Celie in the first half of the 1900s. Celie faces societal racism as well as abuse from the men in her life. The movie focuses heavily on women who experience abuse and exposes the societal norms that allow the cycle to continue. At the 58th Academy Awards, The Color Purple was nominated for an astonishing 11 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and two Best Supporting Actress nominations.
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Cinderella (1997) - 86%
The 1997 remake of Cinderella, sometimes referred to as "the Brandy one", was a massive hit upon release. It was set to relaunch The Wonderful World of Disney series on ABC and usher in a new era of family-friendly films. During its initial premiere, the movie received 60 million viewers, becoming one of the highest-rated programs of the 90s. It had a star-studded cast with Whitney Houston, Jason Alexander, and Bernadette Peters joining Brandy and Goldberg. The movie is considered groundbreaking not only for its high ratings but also its diverse cast.
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The Long Walk Home (1990) - 87%
Based on the events of the 1950s Montgomery Bus Boycott, the movie centers around a black woman named Odessa (Goldberg) and the white woman, Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek), whom she works for. Miriam begins giving Odessa a ride to work due to the boycott, which causes a rift between Miriam and the rest of the white community. The move was praised for dealing with tough issues like racism, but also criticized for relying on a white person to save the day.
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It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) - 90%
When Kermit loses all hope of saving the endangered Muppet Theater, an angel (David Arquette) brings this issue up with his "boss" (Whoopi Goldberg). Kermit is then shown what life would be like if he never existed, paying obvious homage to the classic Christmas film, It's a Wonderful Life.
As with all things Muppets, the movie featured a wide range of cameo roles, including Carson Daly, Snoop Dogg, Molly Shannon, Kelly Ripa, and more.
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The Lion King (1994) - 93%
Who knew that a lion version of Hamlet was to become one of the most influential films of all time. From its $968 million dollar box office gross, to sequels, video games, books, toys, and even a reboot (that itself went on to make $1.6 billion dollars...), it's truly one of the most impactful films ever, as well as one of the most lasting cultural phenomenons of all time. In the movie, Goldberg voices Shenzi, the head hyena who works as one of Scar's minions.
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Toy Story 3 (2010) - 98%
Released 11 years after Toy Story 2, many wondered if Disney would be able to capture the emotion and wonder of the original films in a world that had dramatically changed. The answer was yes. Toy Story 3 received universal acclaim and became a box office hit, earning over $1 billion at the box office. In the film, Goldberg voices Stretch, a stretchy octopus toy who lives at the daycare facility that all of Andy's toys have just been donated to. -
2022-02-02 at 4:45 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-02-02 at 4:42 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sDeluded simpleton.
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2022-02-02 at 4:29 PM UTC in Whoopi's OopsiesSara Haines is freakin' hot!
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2022-02-02 at 4:24 PM UTC in What happens to someone's soul when you murder them?
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2022-02-02 at 3:23 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMake
America
Great
Again---VOTE DEMOCRATIC
The Guardian
Trump and his enablers unwittingly offer Democrats their best hope in the midterms
Robert Reich
The midterm elections are just over nine months away. What will Democrats run on? What will Republicans run on?
One hint came at a Houston-area Trump rally Saturday night. “If I run and if I win,” the former guy said, referring to 2024, “we will treat those people from January 6th fairly.” He then added, “and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Trump went on to demand “the biggest protest we have ever had” if federal prosecutors in Washington or in New York and Atlanta, where cases against him are moving forward, “do anything wrong or illegal”. He then called the federal prosecutors “vicious, horrible people” who are “not after me, they’re after you”.
Trump’s hint of pardons for those who attacked the Capitol could affect the criminal prosecution of hundreds now facing conspiracy, obstruction and assault charges, which carry sentences that could put them away for years. If they think Trump will pardon them, they might be less willing to negotiate with prosecutors and accept plea deals.
His comments could also be interpreted as a call for violence if various legal cases against him lead to indictments.
But if Trump keeps at it – and of course he will – he’ll help the Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections by reminding the public of the attempted coup he and his Republican co-conspirators tried to pull off between the 2020 election and January 6. That would make the midterm election less of a referendum on Biden than on the Republican party. (Don’t get me wrong. I think Biden is doing a good job, given the hand he was dealt. But Republicans are doing an even better job battering him – as his sinking poll numbers show.)
Last week, Newt Gingrich, who served as House speaker from 1995 to 1999, suggested that members of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol should face jail time if the Republican party returns to power. “The wolves are gonna find out that they’re now sheep, and they’re the ones who – in fact, I think – face a real risk of jail for the kind of laws they’re breaking,” Gingrich said on Fox News.
Gingrich’s remark prompted Representative Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican and vice-chair of the select committee, to respond: “A former speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent January 6 attack on our Capitol and our constitution. This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels.”
Trump and Gingrich are complicating the midterm elections prospects for all Republicans running or seeking reelection nine months from now.
Many Republican leaders believe they don’t need to offer the public any agenda for the midterms because of widespread frustration with Biden and the Democrats. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, recently asked what the Republican party’s agenda would be if it recaptured Congress, quipped “I’ll let you know when we take it back.”
But if Republicans fail to offer an agenda, the Republican party’s midterm message is even more likely to be defined by Trump and Trumpers like Gingrich: the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen along with promises to pardon the January 6 defendants, jail members of the select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, and other bonkers claims and promises.
This would spell trouble for the GOP, because most Americans don’t believe the big lie and remain appalled by the attack on the Capitol.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (who phoned Trump during the attack on the Capitol but refuses to cooperate with the House’s January 6 committee investigation) will have a central role in defining the Republican message for the midterms. And whom has McCarthy been consulting with? None other than Newt Gingrich. The two have been friends for years and McCarthy’s chief of staff in his leadership office, Dan Meyer, served in the same role for Gingrich when he was the speaker.
McCarthy knows Gingrich is a master huckster. After all, in 1994 Gingrich delivered a House majority for the Republicans for the first time in 40 years by promising a “contract with America” that amounted to little more than trickle-down economics and state’s rights.
Newt Gingrich likes to think of himself as a revolutionary force, but he behaves more like a naughty boy
But like most hucksters, Gingrich suffered a spectacular fall. In 1997 House members overwhelmingly voted to reprimand him for flouting federal tax laws and misleading congressional investigators about it – making him the first speaker panned for unethical behavior. The disgraced leader, who admitted to the ethical lapse as part of a deal to quash inquiries into other suspect activities, also had to pay a historic $300,000 penalty. Then, following a surprise loss of Republican House seats in the 1998 midterm election, Gingrich stepped down as speaker. He resigned from Congress in January 1999 and hasn’t held elected office since.
I’ve talked with Gingrich several times since then. I always come away with the impression of a military general in an age where bombast and explosive ideas are more potent than bombs. Since he lost the House, Gingrich has spent most of his time and energy trying to persuade other Republicans that he alone possesses the strategy and the ideas entitling him to be the new general of the Republican right.
Gingrich has no scruples, which is why he has allied himself with Trump and Trump’s big lie – appearing regularly on Fox News to say the 2020 election was rigged and mouth off other Trumpish absurdities (such as last week’s claim that members of the House select committee should be jailed).
Gingrich likes to think of himself as a revolutionary force, but he behaves more like a naughty boy. When he was Speaker, his House office was adorned with figurines of dinosaurs, as you might find in the bedrooms of little boys who dream of becoming huge and powerful. Gingrich can be mean, but his meanness is that of a nasty kid rather than a tyrant. And like all nasty kids, inside is an insecure little fellow who desperately wants attention.
Still, as of now, the best hope for Democrats in the midterms lies with Trump, Gingrich and others who loudly and repeatedly remind the public how utterly contemptible the Republican party has become. -
2022-02-02 at 6:12 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
State trooper who told off Washington Gov. Jay Inslee over vaccine mandate dies from COVID
Craig Sailor, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
TACOMA, Wash. — A former Washington State Patrol trooper who told off Gov. Jay Inslee over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, resigned and then became a sought-after media figure, has died, according to the State Patrol.
Trooper Robert LaMay's death was announced Friday. He was 50.
According to FOX News, KIRO News Radio, Newsweek and other media sources, LaMay died after contracting COVID-19.
His former boss, State Patrol Chief John Batiste, said he was deeply saddened to hear of LaMay's death Friday.
"Rob served honorably for over two decades and we were disappointed to see him leave the agency this past October," Batiste said. "His service to this state and agency will be long remembered and appreciated."
LaMay took early retirement in October rather than get vaccinated.
A video shows him giving his final radio call in which he tells Inslee to "kiss my a--." The video went viral and LaMay soon was appearing on numerous news outlets.
No statement from his family has been issued.
Last summer, LaMay had said he and his family did not "do" vaccines and he never received any as an adult. In August, on his Facebook account, he said vaccines go against his religious beliefs. His account is no longer visible.
While 73 other commissioned officers quit the State Patrol over the mandate, none received the media celebrity status LaMay did. On Jan. 12, Jerrod Sessler, a Prosser businessman running for Congress in Washington's 4th District, announced that LaMay had endorsed him.
"Mr. Lamay took the hearts of Americans by storm when he resigned from his position as a state trooper because he refused to succumb to the mandates enforced upon him by a constitutionally over-extended governor," Sessler said.
Sessler said he would appoint LaMay to head an anti-human-trafficking task force he would commission.
In the endorsement, LaMay accuses state politicians of ignoring human trafficking. He went on to say, "many of whom are involved in it themselves and do not want it to go away."
LaMay joined the State Patrol in 1999 as a trooper cadet. He was commissioned in 2001.
The trooper served in Poulsbo, Bremerton, Ellensburg and, most recently, Yakima. He worked as an armorer, collision reconstructionist and as a drug recognition expert.
LaMay's is not the first high profile death to affect the State Patrol. Trooper Eric Gunderson died Sept. 26 after contracting COVID while on business for the agency six weeks earlier.
The trooper was 38 and unvaccinated but his family said he would have followed the mandate.
"It is important for everyone to know, he was not a part of any anti-vaccine or political movement," Gunderson's family said in a statement.
To date, 10,699 Washington residents have died of COVID. -
2022-02-02 at 5:59 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sCBS News
Raskin says Trump "said the criminal part out loud"
Scott MacFarlane
Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland expressed confidence that the House select committee investigating January 6 will hear from President Trump's daughter Ivanka about what transpired that day. She's expected to be called to be interviewed by the committee later this week, although Raskin wouldn't comment on specific days or times that she is supposed to speak to them.
The Supreme Court has said that everybody owes Congress "his or her truthful testimony," Raskin, a member of the committee, told CBS News' Scott MacFarlane on "Red & Blue" on Tuesday.
Asked whether he was expecting Ivanka Trump to appear, Raskin declined to answer directly but said, "I personally am expecting everybody who was asked to come and testify to come and do it. And most people are doing it without a subpoena."
"If the president doesn't have an executive privilege claim, certainly, the daughter of the former president doesn't have an executive privilege claim," Raskin told MacFarlane. "What we've got is the Congress and the president of the United States agreeing that there's no executive privilege here — so everybody's got to come and testify."
Raskin said the committee is "making tremendous progress in fleshing out the full picture of what took place on January 6," and he said that "April sounds more realistic" for public hearings, which he believes will give the public the "whole story" of what happened in the assault on the Capitol and Trump's role in what transpired. He said the committee is planning hearings that are similar to Trump's second impeachment trial, when the House impeached him for inciting insurrection.
Ultimately, the committee's aim is to tell the American people and Congress "what exactly happened to us and what were the causes behind it," Raskin said. "What do we need to do to fortify our democratic institutions so we never face a nightmare like that again?"
The committee has spoken this week with two of former Vice President Mike Pence's top aides, Marc Short and Greg Jacob. Raskin said Tuesday that Pence was the "principle target" on January 6 both of the rioters and Trump, who was "trying to convince Pence to announce and assert non-existing powers to unilaterally reject Electoral College votes."
Trump said in a statement earlier this week that Pence could have "overturned the Election!" When asked if that makes the case against Trump simpler, Raskin said it "makes it simple in the sense that Donald Trump said the criminal part out loud."
"That makes it very clear what he was up to, but on the other hand, Donald Trump has been trying to sandbag and obstruct us by getting his greatest intimates in his entourage — like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows — not to testify," Raskin said. -
2022-02-01 at 10:11 PM UTC in This is not a "sex" forum
Originally posted by SEGA Nigga Drive - They year is 2022
- Joe Biden is still president of the United States
- SpectraL is still Canadian and gay
- SpectraL is still a dishonourable liar who welches in his bet
- SpectraL is a homosexual and his word means nothing
Maybe Speculum should change his screenname to "Backstabbing Bufuer". -
2022-02-01 at 10:06 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sIf not, why don't you shut your pie hole?
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2022-02-01 at 10:04 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sDo you promise to leave this site if that doesn't happen?
Maybe you could give us a date this will happen by? -
2022-02-01 at 10 PM UTC in Guys congratulate meWariot getting bested by a little girl.
There is justice in the world. -
2022-02-01 at 9 PM UTC in What if UDOs are plasmoids?Quit smoking that shit, mon.
It's making you see bugs as pixies. -
2022-02-01 at 8:57 PM UTC in This is not a "sex" forum
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2022-02-01 at 8:55 PM UTC in This cop is having a shitty dayFrom that skidmark, he must have joined Jiggly Booty for a bite of spotted dick.
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2022-02-01 at 8:51 PM UTC in This is not a "sex" forum
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2022-02-01 at 8:46 PM UTC in What if UDOs are plasmoids?
Originally posted by smokemon I'll rummage around in my closet for my paranormal footage flash drives sometime in the next few days.
Give you the phat hook-up dawg.
(If I keep my flash drives "in the closet," does that mean they're gay?)
People always bitch about there being no evidence for UFOs.
"How come there's no video evidence since we have fancy-shmancy cameras? Shouldn't we have some by now?"
What's funny is that there is a whole fuckton of good footage of UFOs.
Of course with youtube's search so hopelessly broken, it can be hard to find.
If you search "UFO evidence" on youtube you'll get 99% disinformation and pop-horseshit, "debunkings."
Mr. Anomalous on YT has a lot of good footage of plasmoid anomalies. So does Plasmoid Anomaly Study Group.
Just like the fake planes, a lot of them do this weird sort of power-up flashy thing.
They have some sort of intelligence, as many times they can be "summoned" simply with human intention.
The way they often mimic things also indicates some kind of street smarts.
That's some guy shining a flashlight on a blue wall.
Duh.
