Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Selleck memoirs look back at their beginnings

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

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Today's episode is about two massive stars: Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Selleck. First, Goldberg speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about her new memoir, Bits and Pieces, which touches on her relationship with her mother, the way she navigated beauty standards growing up, and what it means to grapple with grief over time. Then, Selleck joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss You Never Know, his initial reluctance to take on his role in Magnum P.I. and his thoughts on being labeled a "mustachioed hunk."

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0:00.0	Hey, it's M. Pierre's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong. For a short time in the 90s,
0:07.0	Whippy Goldberg hosted her own nighttime talk show. Do you always want to act? No. What do you want to
0:13.8	do? I wanted to be a cowboy or baseball player. Damn, me too. Yeah, well, doesn't everybody?
0:20.2	The vibes are extremely 90s.
0:23.0	They're on big comfy couches.
0:24.8	The lighting is soft.
0:26.2	Whoopies in an oversized sweater.
0:28.5	In this episode, she's talking to the actor Tom Selleck.
0:31.4	At the time, a huge sex symbol,
0:33.5	emitting a casual sort of handsomeness in his hybrid cardigan sweater vest what is that what is that
0:40.6	jenisei qua what is that it's exactly that how do you say that i get intimidated when i pronounce
0:47.4	genetet it's a joie de vive it's a uh an approach to life life from the ground up.
0:55.0	Yes.
0:56.0	And that's what makes you a sex symbol?
0:57.7	It's up to you.
0:59.1	I don't, I don't, I'm just a guy who looks in the mirror and needs a shave, you know.
1:03.6	I'm playing this for you because we happen to have both of them on the pod today, separately, but still talking about their respective memoirs that they've got out.
1:11.4	In a bit, we'll hear from Tom, but first, and Pierre's Aisha Roscoe talks to Whoopi Goldberg
1:15.9	about her memoir bits and pieces and about navigating Hollywood and other people's standards
1:21.6	for beauty.
1:22.8	That's ahead.
1:24.4	In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.
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