# Why didn't Whoopi Goldberg kill herself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022 "2008-11-30T04:20:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/41 "2008-12-01T01:57:47Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > There’s been a couple of cases where actors have claimed that the movie they signed on to make was _not_ the movie which came out, and that the script was changed against their objections. Samuel L. Jackson tends to be rather blunt in his discussions about the Hollywood “suits.” 😃 It would be interesting to hear what he thought _Amos and Andrew_ was supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/42 "2008-12-01T02:57:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s easy for us to be all moral on this issue. Nobody ever offered me a million dollars to star in a really stupid movie so I can’t claim I turned them down. > > What I don’t understand is why anyone would be willing to watch a movie like _Theodore Rex_. I enjoy bad movies on some level. I used to write for Dante’s Inferno and All Night Video Store. If the site still exists you can look up all kinds of bad movies there. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/43 "2008-12-01T03:21:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > It would be interesting to hear what he thought _Amos and Andrew_ was supposed to be. Uh . . . have you seen _Amos and Andrew_? It’s a pretty smart satire on racism. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/44 "2008-12-01T03:35:12Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Uh . . . have you seen _Amos and Andrew_? It’s a pretty smart satire on racism. Concur. Never seen this Rex of which you speak, and now I won’t have to, Thank you, Lissener ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/45 "2008-12-01T03:35:16Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Avoiding bankruptcy is a remarkably motivating thing. She has done 109 movies. She has a successful stand up act for many years, She is on the View. I don’t think she has too much money trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/46 "2008-12-01T03:48:51Z")
I work with a guy named Theodore Rex Lastname. His paycheck says T Rex Lastname. His license plate is T REX. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/47 "2008-12-01T04:40:59Z")
Nothing like the [book](http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Rex-Modern-Library-Paperbacks/dp/0812966007/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228106393&sr=8-2), I gather. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/48 "2008-12-01T04:46:23Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > She has done 109 movies. She has a successful stand up act for many years, She is on the View. I don’t think she has too much money trouble. Kim Basinger was loaded, too. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/49 "2008-12-01T04:56:44Z")
> [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](#): > > I work with a guy named Theodore Rex Lastname. His paycheck says T Rex Lastname. His license plate is T REX. Wow, that’s . . . strangely hot. Can you send him my email, ask him if he has any openings for a stalker? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/50 "2008-12-01T04:58:22Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Nothing like the [book](http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Rex-Modern-Library-Paperbacks/dp/0812966007/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228106393&sr=8-2), I gather. Well, exactly like the book, actually, except replace “POTUS” with “Muppet Dinosaur” and everything else with “Whoopi Goldberg.” With those adjustments, it’s a pretty faithful adaptation. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/51 "2008-12-01T05:43:33Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Is there ever a reason for anyone, anywhere, to agree to star in a movie like _[Theodore Rex](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114658/)_? A lot of actors flat out like to act. It’s what they do, even if they they know it’s a really crappy movie. I like to post here and, heavens knows, I’m well aware that none of my posts is ever going to win an Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/52 "2008-12-01T15:24:55Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > There’s been a couple of cases where actors have claimed that the movie they signed on to make was _not_ the movie which came out, and that the script was changed against their objections. Samuel L. Jackson tends to be rather blunt in his discussions about the Hollywood “suits.” 😃 Arguably, the most famous situation that fits this description is Caligula, where Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud were especially vocal about not knowing they were participating in a big-budget hardcore porn movie. **Jolly Roger** , I used to like going to Dante’s Inferno bad movie site, but quit after it hadn’t been updated in months (a year or more?). I think it’s still on the web, but as I say, no longer updated. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/53 "2008-12-01T17:02:40Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Arguably, the most famous situation that fits this description is Caligula, where Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud were especially vocal about not knowing they were participating in a big-budget hardcore porn movie. > > **Jolly Roger** , I used to like going to Dante’s Inferno bad movie site, but quit after it hadn’t been updated in months (a year or more?). I think it’s still on the web, but as I say, no longer updated. I can tell you why it hasn’t been updated in some time. the hosts of the site needed the reviews edited for language, and that took some time. I don’t think I managed to re edit half of them. Having to that with work and having any kind of a life not watching bad movies and you know, going outside made it too difficult. Especially as I had just moved to Europe at the time. I enjoyed working on the Inferno and at times want to start it up again, but I have so many other priorities right now its kind of impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/54 "2008-12-01T18:01:00Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > There is the fact that sometimes things that sound really stupid (“see, your a private detective and will solve a murder involving a rabbit and his drop-dead gorgeous,but human, wife; so Bob Hoskins, do you do it or jump off a bridge”) turn out to be fine. > > Sometimes you can only prove something was a horrible idea by going out and doing it. Just ask Eddie Murphy, who turned down a role in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/55 "2008-12-01T20:03:10Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Kim Basinger was loaded, too. I thought she bought a town and blew it all. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/56 "2008-12-01T21:00:32Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > To me, making a bad movie is pretty far down on the list of horrible sins one should die before committing. Actually, now that I double check, it’s not even on the list. You are, of course, correct. However, on the list might be taking overtly facetious statements literally. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/57 "2008-12-02T02:33:23Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Anyone else think Whoopi’s best role was as Guinan? It’s be a pretty poor comment on her career if it was. Guinan was a terrible character, straight out of the “inscrutable magical black advisor” book that gave us Bagger Vance. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/58 "2008-12-02T05:35:04Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I thought she bought a town and blew it all. Lucky constituents. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/59 "2008-12-06T02:23:08Z")
Someone just rented _Theodore Rex_. . . . Was it one of you? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022/60 "2008-12-06T02:27:15Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Someone just rented _Theodore Rex_. . . . Was it one of you? Maybe someone in the bad movie club. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-whoopi-goldberg-kill-herself/475022.md?page=2)