Whoopi Goldberg: Swayze is the reason I won Oscar
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March, 07 2008
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 Whoopi Goldberg: Swayze is the reason I won Oscar
Whoopi Goldberg who is the first woman to host the Academy Awards in 1994 says her friend Patrick Swayze is the reason why she won an Oscar for "Ghost". Patrick Swayze was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Whoopi Goldberg recalled Thursday on ABC daytime talk show "The View" and told, "When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick".
Goldberg, who starred alongside Swayze in the 1990 film, earned a best supporting actress trophy for her portrayal of psychic Oda Mae Brown, who helps slain businessman Sam Wheat (Swayze) communicate with his grieving fiancee and solve the mystery of his murder.
Goldberg, 52-year-old actress and comedian said Swayze persuaded director Jerry Zucker to cast her in the film. Goldberg added, Swayze had said the director that he is not making the movie unless he put Whoopi Goldberg in there.
In a statement, Annett Wolf, the representative of Swayze said, Swayze's physician Dr. George Fisher said he was "optimistic" about the "Dirty Dancing" actor's prognosis for battling the disease: "Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far".
Whoopi Goldberg said she hadn't spoken to Swayze about his health.
"We want you to feel better, we'll talk soon, I hope," she said. |
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