AT A recent press conference in Los Angeles, Whoopi Goldberg, weary of being barraged by questions about her reported relationship with Ted Danson, held up a sign reading: ''None of your damn business! Next question please!'' However, the on-screen chemistry between them in Made in America, scheduled for Hongkong release in June, is marvellous and unmistakable.
Whatever their off-screen relationship, according to the film's director, Richard Benjamin, himself an actor and the real-life husband of actress Paula Prentiss, the two are ''terrific together''.
''If you are supposed to be lovers in a film, then you have to - and you do - fall a little bit in love . . . even with 80 people standing around the set,'' Benjamin said.
''I've always wanted to work with Whoopi,'' said cigar-toting, greying Danson. ''Her comedy is fun and crazy.'' Both are already talking to producers and the studio about doing a sequel.
They also have separate projects. For Goldberg, in spite of admitted struggles with producers during Sister Act, part two is in production.
''Next time will be better. I haven't eaten a producer in a long time,'' the relaxed actress joked.
She welcomes the possibility of taking on a serious role like the ones she had in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, the film that launched her career, and The Long Walk Home, about the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in the early days of the civil rights movement and Dr Martin Luther King.
