NOTES: Behold the absolute first-ever picture taken for the photobook--the insert of Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg! I can say this with absolute certainty, because the Picturephone hadn't yet arrived and I wanted to get some use out of the Del Monte can before anything else.
The riff on The Color Purple came from Whoopi's appearance on Whose Line Is It Anyway? during the first round of "Questions Only."
Another history lesson: Right at the beginning of the project, I knew that Whoopi would be the easiest guest star to port over from the original--she played Guinan on Star Trek. With that said, she had two variants--the first was her second-season burgundy outfit, and this was from the first season and Star Trek Generations. I already had the burgundy one, but it wasn't purple enough to carry across The Color Purple joke. Oprah was significantly harder to think about, and then it dawned on me shortly after New Year's 2024. "Oh, wait, that's right. Whoopi has dragged Oprah, dressed up to look like Uhura, to a Star Trek-themed party."
Finally, one of my best-ever shots. I love how shadowy Randy turned out.
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