MAKING WHOOPI – The unbelievable true and moving triumph of the human spirit story of how Caryn Elaine Johnson’s powerful relationship with her mother helped her survive the welfare system in 1950’s Manhattan, drug addiction, and a self inflicted abortion to reinvent herself into a world- reknowned Academy Award winning actress.

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This is a marketing piece. I still couldn't tell you want the movie is about. What mechanism are you using to tell this story? Is it a series of events like a doco? Do we follow a single relationship and her growth is the back drop.

If i was looking for a Woopi biopic I could tell what angle you are taking.

>>>Caryn Elaine Johnson's

Aka: Whoopi Goldberg. ?So that's the name to use in the logline as well as the title.

Good title, but, Ms. Goldberg controls all the rights to her life story, so I don't see the point of taking the time to polish this logline unless you've got a contract to script a story on her life.

Just staying.

>>>Caryn Elaine Johnson's

Aka: Whoopi Goldberg. ?So that's the name to use in the logline as well as the title.

Good title, but, Ms. Goldberg controls all the rights to her life story, so I don't see the point of taking the time to polish this logline unless you've got a contract to script a story on her life.

Just staying.

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