NAMES IN THE NEWS : ‘Bagdad Cafe’ Fine With Whoopi

Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t see moving from the stage and screen to a situation comedy as a step down.

“As a girl from the projects, I’m not at all disappointed in the way things are going. This is what I’ve always dreamed about. And I’m still here, which is the phenomenal thing,” the comedian says in the April 9 issue of People magazine.

Goldberg, who went from an acclaimed one-woman Broadway show to the lead in Steven Spielberg’s movie “The Color Purple,” stars with Jean Stapleton in “Bagdad Cafe” on CBS.

“One thing I’m not is a flash in the pan,” Goldberg said. “I have not done anything I’m ashamed of. Things haven’t always turned out the way I wanted, but I did the best job I could. They (the critics) built Whoopi’s image. I didn’t.”