Alice in Wonderland is a 1999 TV movie based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided an array of animatronic characters, including the large-scale Gryphon, full-bodied puppets of the White Rabbit and March Hare, the animatronic body of the Cheshire Cat (with Whoopi Goldberg's face added), the smaller Dormouse, a baby, and a variety of flowers and small animals.
On television Ms. Goldberg appeared for five seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, she co-starred with Jean Stapleton in Bagdad Cafreacute; and hosted her own syndicated late-night talk show. She appeared in the Emmy-nominated HBO drama In the Gloaming, directed by Christopher Reeve, as well as The Wonderful World of Disney's Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella and A Knight in Camelot, and appeared in the miniseries Alice in Wonderland and The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns. She starred in the NBC sitcom Whoopi, which she executive-produced, and co-starred in the television movies It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie and Showtime's Good Fences, which she co-produced with co-star Danny Glover. She produced and appeared on Nick Jr's Whoopi's Littleburg. In 2007 Ms. Goldberg was named moderator of ABC's The View.
In 1992 Ms. Goldberg made her debut as an author with her first children's book, Alice. Her second literary endeavor, simply entitled Book, became a bestseller in the U.S. and around the world. She also has a three-book publishing deal with Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Hyperion Books. The first title, Whoopi's Big Book of Manners was published in 2006, and Sugar Plum Ballerinas will be in stores in Fall 2008.
