Whoopi Goldberg has been entertaining us for almost 40 years, in movies like "The Color Purple," "Ghost," and "Sister Act" as well as TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and of course, on ABC's "The View."

I met her in 1997, after she wrote a book called "Book."  It was a kind of stream-of-consciousness effort, with chapters each having a single syllable word as their title.

And our interview was kind of stream-of-consciousness, too.