Caryn Elaine Johnson, was born in Manhattan in 1955. A Trekkie since childhood, she would eventually go on to a recurring (if oft uncredited) role on the successor series to that very show...
Working an unusual, character based standup in the vein of Carol Burnett or Tracy Ullman, it was none other than Steven Spielberg who pulled her from handling hecklers to marquee lights with his The Color Purple, setting her on the road to a lengthy career in film, where she headlined a trio of interesting action comedies before making a name in such populist fare as Ghost, Soapdish, Boys on the Side, Girl Interrupted, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Made in America and Sister Act...and more interesting if seldom discussed efforts like Eddie, The Associate and what remains the definitive adaptation of Stephen King's sprawling postapocalyptic parable, The Stand.
Since taking the lead chair on the popular daytime sociopolitical chat show The View a full decade and a half back, she's begun to further pursue a role in producing documentaries relating to black figures in history and entertainment.
Join us as we take on what most would agree to be the most unexpected subject in our hundred episode history, the inimitable Whoopi Goldberg!
Weird Scenes Week 96 (5/4/23): Sometimes You’ve Just Got To Let One Go: The Atypical Career of Whoopi Goldberg
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Weird Scenes Week 90 (2/9/23): Richard Harris in the 70’s
Weird Scenes Week 89 (1/26/23): The Films of Michael Crichton
Third Eye Cinema Week 96 (1/22/23) Chris Hector of Ahab (10 years on)
Weird Scenes Week 88 (8/25/22): Satan in the 70’s (a discussion of satanic cult films)
Weird Scenes Week 87 (8/11/22): Paranoia, Decadence and Dissolution – The Films of Roman Polanski
State of the Disunion - Guns n’ Russians and the Neverending American Horror Story
Weird Scenes Week 86 The Hard Boiled Exploits of Philip Marlowe
Weird Scenes Week 85 (12/9/21): Go Ape! The first major multimedia craze and how it disappeared into the vaults of time
Weird Scenes Week 84 (11/11/21): Questions Within Enigma: the films of Stanley Kubrick
Weird Scenes Week 83: SF with a message - the dystopic visions of the counterculture era
Week 95 (10/17/21) - Show-Ya (and special guest)
Weird Scenes Week 82 - Ridin' the Rails with Rob: the unflappable cool of Robert Mitchum
Weird Scenes Week 81 - Tony Curtis
Weird Scenes 4/5/21: Zero Minus One – Resurrection Revival Meeting Grab Bag (Coronavirus One Year On)
Weird Scenes Week 80 - Donald Pleasance Week 2: Final Stage
Weird Scenes Week 79 - Donald Pleasance: Dawn of the Deviant
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