Los Angeles (E! Online) - The 2008 Academy Awards might end up being remembered not for what was crammed into the three-hour-plus broadcast, but for what was glaringly left out.
While Jon Stewart gave Best Song cowinner Marketa Irglova a chance to finish her acceptance speech after the commercial break and the Academy is trying to explain why Brad Renfro didnt make the in memoriam cut, Whoopi Goldberg--and her loyal The View cohosts--can be added to the list of people with an ax to grind over Sundays ceremony.
After her fellow chatterbugs wondered aloud where Goldbergs moments were in the clipfest that included, among others, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Chevy Chase and Billy Crystal (it even included David Letterman, if only in an English Patient parody produced during one of Crystals years), the View cohost on Monday looked genuinely hurt about being left out of a montage of memorable Oscar moments. (Watch the ladies dissection of what went wrong.)
Undoubtedly I pissed somebody off yet again, Goldberg said when Sherri Shepherd asked whether she had made someone mad. You know what, I dont--I dont know.
Maybe they accidentally lost a clip of you hosting...But I think its wrong, Hasselbeck said.
We think youre a great host, Barbara Walters offered after pointing out that Goldberg had some wonderful moments onstage.
I think we should do our own montage of you to make up for, Hasselbeck added.
Being slighted is never fun, Joy Behar commented.
This makes up for it, Goldberg said gratefully, standing up to give each of her cohosts a kiss on the cheek. Walters gave her a big hug.
Goldberg hosted the Oscars four times (during which she changed clothes about 18 times), in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002. She won a Best Supporting Actress statue for Ghost in 1990, a moment that was included in a montage for that category.
Also a Tony, Grammy and Emmy winner, Goldberg is the only African-American actress with two Oscar nominations (the other came for lead actress for The Color Purple in 1985) and she became the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award after Gone with the Winds Hattie McDaniel in 1940.
But just as her comedic skills livened up Ghost, Goldberg definitely brought the funny when she pulled hosting duty, although not everyone appreciated the entertainers brand of humor at all times.
She made a royal entrance in 1999, coming out in creamy white face la Cate Blanchett in the much revered Elizabeth once she had taken on the role of the Virgin Queen. Goldberg introduced herself as the African Queen.
Some of you may know me as the Virgin Queen, but I cant imagine who, she said.
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