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Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The View Remembers Malcolm-Jamal Warner
The View Remembers Malcolm-Jamal Warner originally appeared on Daytime Confidential. On Tuesday's episode of The View, the co-hosts paid tribute to actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Warner best known for his role as Theo Huxtable on the hit 80s and 90s NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, died in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica over the weekend while on vacation with his family. He was 54. Whoopi Goldberg said about Warner's passing: He was really a great kid. I knew him well, I mean, it just…You know, the person who [broke the news to her] sent me a note that said, this is why what you did on Friday matters, and that is something that I will impart to you all. Because our lives move so quickly and we can disappear at any second, do not let much time pass before you say to your loved ones, hey, I'm thinking of you or hey, how you doing? Make sure you contact somebody today and reach out. Co-host revealed she knew The Resident star due to previously dating his friend, stated how down to earth he was. According to Hostin: I knew him also – I dated his friend – and he was always so nice to me. He didn't behave the way I thought movie stars or television stars would behave. He was very welcoming to this kind of outsider. Hostin went on to explain how important Warner was in pop culture especially in the Black community and how he and the show represented a positive representation of the Black family. Hostin stated: I think [Warner's death] was so shocking because of the place that he had in pop culture for African Americans. I remember growing up and watching this family as a kid from the South Bronx projects, watching a Black doctor and Black lawyer married to each other living in a beautiful Brooklyn townhouse. And for me, it became something that was a possibility. That depiction, I think, was an overdue corrective against these harmful stereotypes of the Black community that existed for so very long, and he was just such a crucial part of it, especially I think for young Black men. Watch the segment below. This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Jul 23, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Whoopi Goldberg slammed for wild defense of Astronomer CEO Andy Byron
Whoopi Goldberg fiercely defended the former Astronomer CEO who got caught in a romantic embrace at a Coldplay concert, stating that 'sometimes you can't help who you want to get on.' Andy Byron, 50, was spotted on camera at the concert with his arms wrapped around the company's HR chief Kristin Cabot, 56, on a jumbotron while the band serenaded thousands of fans at Gillette Stadium in Boston on Tuesday. Naturally, the scandal was the first Hot Topic on Monday's episode of The View and Whoopi, 69, was particularly sympathetic to the pair. 'Sometimes you can't help who you want to get on,' she commented. 'Sometimes you just can't help it. Because she's not the head of HR in the bed.' Speaking to co-stars Ana Navarro, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, Sara Haines, and Sunny Hostin, Whoopi appeared to suggest that perhaps the pair wanted to get caught. 'I don't know what this is,' she continued. 'I don't know if he was happily married, if she was happily married. I don't know any of that. 'But I do know that if you don't want people to know what you're doing, don't take them to concerts.' 'You don't know who's in this giant stadium of people. If you're doing that and you don't want people to know, what the hell? It's just too dumb. 'You got inadvertently what you might've been looking for, which was your out.' Sara meanwhile voiced her sadness for the families of the pair. 'There are people that are looking at these two individuals and obviously not wanting the damning part for the family,' she said. 'I do say my heart goes out to the children and partners of these people who are having to watch this all play out, but the bigger thing people aren't talking about is how a CEO of a company should never be dating the head of HR.' Viewers were quick, however, to question Whoopi's response and her 'wobbly moral compass' on social media. Taking to X - formerly Twitter - to share their view, one said: 'Whoopi is a mess. The CEO shouldn't be sleeping with the head of HR.' Another wrote: 'Whoopi has a wobbly moral compass. 1) It's not OK to cheat on your spouse. 2) It's not OK for a CEO to cheat with a subordinate.' Byron and Cabot were caught red-faced as the kiss-cam at a Coldplay concert in Boston panned to the CEO with his arms wrapped his subordinate on Tuesday. The pair immediately ducked and turned from the cameras after realizing their faces were on the big screen. Since then, the couple have gained infamy thanks to a viral video. Billion-dollar company Astronomer announced Byron's resignation in a statement on Saturday. 'As stated previously, Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met,' the statement said. 'Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted.' Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy will stay on as interim CEO. 'While awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not. We're continuing to do what we do best: helping our customers with their toughest data and AI problems.' Public records suggest both Byron, 50, and Cabot, 56, (pictured) are married - but that they live at different addresses to each of their spouses registered abodes Astronomer acknowledged the awkward situation in the statement announcing Byron's resignation. 'Before this week, we were known as a pioneer in the DataOps space, helping data teams power everything from modern analytics to production AI,' the statement read. 'While awareness of our company may have changed over night our product and our work for our customers have not.' Public records suggest both Byron and Cabot are married - but that they live at different addresses to those listed as their spouses. The new CEO of Astronomer issued a statement announcing his official role on Monday - as he appeared to suggest he's thrilled about the awkward Coldplay concert cuddling scandal that landed him the job. Pete DeJoy took to LinkedIn to announce his new and now official role. 'The spotlight has been unusual and surreal for our team and, while I would never have wished for it to happen like this, Astronomer is now a household name,' he wrote. 'I'm stepping into this role with a wholehearted commitment to taking care of our people and delivering for our customers. 'Astronomer's foundation remains strong, built around the thriving Apache Airflow community,' he went on, adding that the company 'won't let you down.'
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Ghost' Premiered 35 Years Ago This Weekend. How PEOPLE's Critic 'Really' Felt About It Back in the Day
The romance thriller ghost story made $505.7 million at the box office and inspired a Broadway musicalNEED TO KNOW Ghost celebrates its 35th anniversary on July 13 The romance thriller made $505.7 million at the box office and inspired a Broadway musical However, back in 1990, PEOPLE's film critic called it "dopily written"Ghost premiered on July 13, 1990, centering on a young woman in trouble as the ghost of her murdered lover tries to protect her with the help of a spiritual medium. The movie opens up with lovebirds Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore). However, it takes a turn when Wheat is murdered by business partner Carl Brunner (Tony Goldwyn), leaving him to return as a ghost but unable to communicate with Jensen. The late banker then seeks help from psychic Old Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to shield Jensen from Brunner's nefarious plans. At the time, PEOPLE's critic noted that the film "isn't another movie about friendly spirits hanging out' and 'takes the ghost business with boneheaded seriousness.' "Swayze is killed in a mugging and realizes he's dead to the world (though visible to the audience), he starts researching ghost behavior," the review read in part. "He wants to help Moore, his girlfriend, catch his killer." "So he finds a veteran ghost, Vincent Schiavelli, who can physically influence the living. Swayze goes into training, and Schiavelli tells him, 'You've gotta take all your emotion — all your anger, love, hate — push it way down into the pit of your stomach and let it explode,'" the review continued. "In its intensity and mumbo jumbo, the scene resembles Yoda guru-ing Luke — you expect Schiavelli to tell Swayze, 'Let the ectoplasm be with you.' " PEOPLE joked in its Ghost review that Moore may have set "an all-time record for most scenes of tears welling up in eyes" in the "dopily written" film, which also had "fundamentalist Christian overtones." "The zero-perspective direction is by Jerry Zucker, who has been involved with on-purpose funny movies — such as Airplane! — but none that more richly deserves guffaws than this one," the review concluded. "If making bad movies qualifies as a deadly sin, [Bruce Joel] Rubin and Zucker had better start pushing all their emotion into the pit of their stomachs right now so they have a fighting chance when those little devils in the black outfits come after them." Despite this review from PEOPLE, the film raked in a whopping $505.7 million worldwide, surpassing another 1990 hit, Home Alone, which made $476.6 million at the box office. Ghost was nominated for five awards and won three at the 1991 Oscars. Goldberg walked away with the hardware for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Speaking to PEOPLE after the movie came out, Swayze explained that the film was much more than just a love story to him. He revealed that seeing the plaster dummy representing his character's body took him back to his father's funeral, when he "almost passed out" after touching his dad in his coffin. 'I had pushed that memory out of my life until that moment on location when it all came back, big time,' he said. 'There were a few scenes where something happened to me that was very scary.' As difficult as it was to manage those emotions, it helped him tap into his character, who, like his father, died before his time. In the same interview, Swayze said he felt the message of the film "was about living your life for the moment, because that's all you've got … If you don't communicate with the people you love, you set yourself up for incredible pain if you lose them.' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Speaking at a 2013 American Film Institute event honoring the film, Moore said she loved the script but wasn't sure audiences would respond to it. 'It's a love story, and it's a guy – a dead guy – trying to save his wife, and there is a comedy part, but really, really it's a love story, and I thought, 'Wow, this is really a recipe for disaster … It's either going to be something really special, really amazing, or really an absolute bust,'" she recalled. She shared a similar sentiment over a decade later while chatting with Interview Magazine, acknowledging that Ghost got 'horrible reviews.' 'I remember seeing the movie and thinking it was great, and then the first reviews were awful,' the actress said in the 2024 interview. 'I was so out of my body, because all of a sudden, I was like, 'I don't know if I can trust myself because I thought it was good?' At that moment, I decided to not read reviews, because you have to give equal value to the good and the bad," she added. Ghost is available to watch for free on Kanopy and Hoopla, and for rent on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Media Meltdowns: Whoopi Goldberg loses it as Obama lectures Democrats
Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power has reacted to The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg lose it as former US president Barack Obama lectures Democrats.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Whoopi Goldberg turns on Barack Obama with furious rant
Whoopi Goldberg took direct aim at former President Barack Obama, delivering a stunning and unsparing rebuttal that left her fellow co-hosts rattled and the audience in stunned silence. The unexpected clash erupted during Tuesday's episode of the The View following Obama's controversial remarks at a private fundraiser, where he urged Democrats to stop 'whining,' ditch 'navel-gazing,' and 'toughen up' following the 2024 election loss. 'It's going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions,' Obama told donors, according to The New York Times. 'And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up.' Never one to hold back, Goldberg was furious. 'Let me remind everybody who was out in the front lines marching when we had the giant marches that went on. It was the people. The people went out. They were not navel-gazing,' she declared as she stared down the camera. 'It was older people who were saying, "Why are you touching my Social Security?" It was not people whining. It was about people saying, "Why are you taking these rights away from my child when my child was born here?"' The 69-year-old didn't stop there. In a pointed rebuttal that directly challenged both Obama and Shark Tank billionaire Mark Cuban, who had also criticized the Democratic Party's messaging, Goldberg insisted that criticism of the left was misdirected. 'This has not been about Democrats laying back,' she thundered. 'This has been about y'all. Because their messaging was always the same. Democrats have been angry at what this man tried to do the last time. They've been angry this time. So, with much due respect to you both, I believe you are pointing the finger at the wrong person when you say Democrats.' Cuban, speaking in a virtual address that aired during the segment, scolded Democratic strategists for reducing their message to a simplistic mantra: 'Trump sucks.' 'We picked the wrong pressure points,' Cuban said. 'It's just "Trump sucks." That's the underlying thought of everything the Democrats do. Trump says the sky is blue. "Trump sucks." That's not the way to win.' Co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin tried to offer more nuanced takes urging Democratic officials to produce detailed policy alternatives rather than rely on protest alone. Navarro pointed out how the public resistance to Trump's immigration policies, was actually resulting in a collapse in his polling numbers. 'Right now, Trump's handling on immigration has gone dramatically down,' she noted. 'Why is that? Because the American people have taken it upon themselves to amplify the truth, to show up and protest these horrible, inhumane raids... to tell the truth about what their relatives are going through.' 'We have heard the story of US citizen children with cancer who are not getting treatment because they've had to leave with their deported parents. Because the American people are doing their part - amplifying, showing up at protest, donating, organizing, and being vigilant. So, some of us say that Donald Trump sucks. He does suck. And it feels good to say it,' Navarro said to cheers from the audience. Goldberg then turned her ire toward those criticizing flood victims in Texas, in a another rant that was no less emotional. 'Let's be really clear,' Goldberg said, 'You can't blame anybody for these floods. It's nobody's fault. I didn't do it. You didn't do it. Has nothing to do with Washington. This was a natural disaster.'
