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	Each month we will showcase a City agency employee or an industry specialist who helps to facilitate production in New York City.


	Commissioner Oliver presents a "Made in NY" shirt to Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg November 1, 2004 - Whoopi Goldberg, a star of New York City’s film, theatre and broadcasting industries, returns this month to where it all began. Ms. Goldberg began her career twenty years ago with a one-woman show on Broadway, and will bring the show back to the Lyceum Theatre beginning this month. A native New Yorker, Ms. Goldberg has shot numerous films in New York City, including Ghost, Soapdish, Naked in New York, Boys on the Side, Eddie and The Associate. Last season, she brought her television show Whoopi to Kaufman Astoria Studios. “I live in New York and prefer to work here,” Ms. Goldberg said in a 2003 press conference in which she and Mayor Bloomberg announced the start of the show’s production in New York City. She supported the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting’s efforts to market New York City as a prime location by starring in the video Beyond the Skyline. “You can't mistake Canada, anywhere in Canada, for New York,” she said in the video. “New York, on the other hand, has elements of every city in the world in it." Ms. Goldberg has also appeared on Broadway in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Previews of Whoopi, in which Ms. Goldberg will take on the personas of multiple characters, begin on November 6. View Beyond the Skyline More Industry Stars