Whoopi Goldberg Calls Out Oscars In Memoriam Snub of ‘Star Trek’ Buddy James Darren
Whoopi Goldberg was on hand for Monday’s (March 3) live episode of The View, despite appearing in Sunday’s Oscars telecast — in a late-night tribute to Quincy Jones, alongside The Color Purple costar Oprah Winfrey — and being one of the first people to arrive on the red carpet.
Goldberg admitted it was a major undertaking to make it back from the Los Angeles-based awards show in time for the talk show segment in New York, but she did so after making a promise to executive producer Brian Teta.
“I wasn’t expecting to see me either,” Goldberg joked in response to her cohosts expressing surprise over her attendance. “Most of me here is here, and I am a little bit out of it because we, literally, as soon as I got done, ran to the hotel, took the dress off, repacked it, put it in, and got away on the plane because I promised Brian I would be here.”
She went on to describe spending the evening with her daughter Alex Martin as her guest, recalling a time before when she joined her and Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Ghost.
Goldberg also offered some words of conciliation to The View‘s current theme song creator Diane Warren, who did not win Best Original Song at the Oscars, saying, “I just want to send a little bit of love to our Diane Warren, who did not get her award last night, but Diane, we’re still behind you. Anything you write, we want to play.”
Then, after a very lively discussion of the “embarrassing” Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Winfrey and the other cohosts blasted Trump and Vance’s behavior and motives, she returned to the subject of the Oscars.
This time, she talked about the Academy Awards’ in memoriam segment and pointed out a few people who were missing. After paying tribute to New York Dolls frontman David Johansen and R&B singer Angie Stone, she said, “Some of the people who should have been included in the Oscars in memoriam last night: My dear, dear James Darren. I don’t know if you remember the show Gidget, but he was Moondoggie on Gidget. And for a lot of us, he was our very first kind of, ‘Oh, he’s cute. He’s cute.’ You know, he was wonderful.” Darren, like Goldberg, was an alum of the Star Trek TV universe, and the two memorably shared the stage during her first fan convention. Goldberg also namechecked Shannon Doherty and Michelle Trachtenberg as missing from the tribute and added, “Count your blessings; say a little prayer.”
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I know there's a press for time at the Oscar's and awards ceremonies, but the in memoriam segment ALWAYS leaves too many people out and yet will show a random lighting director from 1945. Trim something and show some respect for more of these contributing actors.
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Everyone can't be acknowledged. How about only Oscar winners and nominees acknowledged. Yall complain about everthing.
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Couldn't agree more Ry..
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I'm tired of the Hollywood types celebrating themselves. The awards would be the last thing I'd watch. Get over yourselves..
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Exactly. Gory, glory. Wow greqr thou art.
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I used to feel the same way as you until I watched "Field of Dreams" with the wonderful Kevin Costner. There really are actors who put in the great work and deserve to be celebrated. You're knocking a whole industry while you sit on your couch or lie in your bed watching some awesome movies. Make it make sense Sis.
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Hollywood is not worth the support of their perversion. The movies today are all crap. Tried watching the Gladiator II. Turned it off, such a joke. Glad I read books still today. Hollywood sucks and pats themselves on the back. Shameful people.
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WHY ARE YOU COMMENTING THAN ...BYE‼️🙄
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Thank you Whoopi for remembering James Darren. He was my first celebrity crush. He was. So handsome and stayed handsome as he aged. RIP Moondoggie.
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They leave out people every year. Remember when michael jackson and Farrah fawcett passed within days of each other? They put him in and left her out saying she was better known for tv, but wasn't he better known for music?
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MJ and FF died on the same day.
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They sure did I had nightmares all night long about death. Would get up take a bathroom break go back to bed and start dreaming again . Finally I got up and wouldn't go back to bed and ask God what is going on why my dreaming and the next day Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett had died. I concluded that that's possibly what it was even though I didn't know them
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I get it that the Oscars is about celebration of the actor's successes. Perhaps they could devote more time to those who have passed away if they would simply tell the winners NOT to celebrate in the aisle and have everyone and his brother congratulate them. They have after parties for this. This could probably save maybe l5-20 minutes of the awards show.
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Whoopie is so gutsy to mention people left out of the memories. When Whoopie hosted the Oscars it was sensational. Billy Crystal too! But Conan O Brian was a real bomb. His skit of coming out of Demi Moore’s body twice was done in very poor taste.
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I agree, I've never thought Conan was funny or even interesting.He's right up there with the no talent adam shannonI agree, I've never thought Conan was funny or even interesting. He's right up there with the no talent, Adam Sandler.
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Whoopie so glad to see you on TV. You looked beautiful. That dress was just beautiful.
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Glad to see her? Sreiously?
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Julie put the acid away
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Angie stone was killed by a big truck. May she rest in peace.
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Maybe Whoopi can do her memoriim for the ones that were left out from the Oscars
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She is the worst actress/asshole around. Ask her if she still sleeps with a shotgun in her bedroom? What a joke.
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Darren was remembered on the SAG awards. That is how I found out he had passed.
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What a pitiful person! She sure has a huge upper lip! Didn’t she have a mustache?
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I think they can add everyone you can put multiple people on the screen it doesn't have to be one person at a time.
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as long as people have tv/movies,they all will live forever.
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He was beloved, but in all fairness, he wasn't in movies.
I would expect to see him in the Golden globes' or the Emmys' Memoriam, though.
RIP
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Who gives a shit that she spent time with her daughter, and had to rush to get back to the View . It’s a dieing program anyway , after the law suits CBS will file for bankruptcy
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I think he was probably a Republican and a Trump supporter. Just more of making good people of notoriety non existent
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You belong in the circus.
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Uncalled for!
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She doesn't know the whole story. I guess they aren't tolerate of everyone
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Who cares what What one if the View's witches say.
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What now your in big big trouble because of your bad attitude good for you yehheey
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Whoopie is a poor excuse for a human woman.
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Woopie in my opinion, and opinions like butt holes everyone has one. But Woopie is a over rated has been along with the rest of the View cast. Just my opinion.
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No, YOU are the " poor" excuse!
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Your mother should have swallowed
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She is poor excuse to walk this earth
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So the conversation was about people not being mentione in the memorable
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Wish Whoopi would go back to not wearing glasses..
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You’re kidding right? That is hardly one of the many issues,”glasses” that she needs to deal with. To appear the way she does at work everyday is appalling. I didn’t even know she had a waist until she wore her Oscar’s dress. She looks like a homeless person next to the others on The View.
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