LATE LATE SHOW WITH TOM SNYDER, THE {WHOOPI GOLDBERG; PATTY HEARST} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of late-night talk shows hosted by Tom Snyder. This episode’s guests include actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg and kidnapping victim Patty Hearst.
Highlights include: the social dynamics on display in Goldberg’s latest film “Boys on the Side”; how the film “channeled emotions” from ordinary people with respect to the loss of their loved ones, and the emotional resonance that Goldberg elicits in her career; Goldberg’s recent imprinting of her hands and feet in the cement in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre; her feelings about winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; her feelings about the conception of media as a “vomitorium”; racial caricatures of African-Americans and modern feelings about them; her advice for aspiring actors; her singing in films despite her distaste for it; her attempts to quit smoking; the influence of her mother on her personality; Hearst’s feelings about the O.J. Simpson trials and the similarities between it and her own trials in terms of media coverage; the expediency of criminal trials as a legal tactic; the use and misuse of evidence in both her own trial and in the Simpson trial, and the deleterious effect of fame on both prosecutors and the accused; her sense of humor about herself and appearance in a number of films directed by John Waters; and the techniques used in her brainwashing. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 7, 1995 12:35 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:40:35
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:71866
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; TV - Talk/Interviews
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1995-1999
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Peter Lassally … Executive Producer
- Brian McAloon … Director
- David Sanborn … Theme Music by
- Tom Snyder … Host
- Whoopi Goldberg … Guest
- Patty Hearst … Guest
- O.J. Simpson
- John Waters