Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg verbally flambéed commentator Glenn Beck today on The View.  It’s always interesting to watch a celebrity who is so obviously caught in a lie.  Perhaps what made it so fascinating though was that the dialogue kept co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck silent for six minutes and thirty-five seconds.

Two decades after first appearing on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the Oscar-winning actress is producing and starring in a new sci-fi series called “Stream” that premieres on January 15 on the horror website and video-on-demand network FEARnet.

The series comes just over a year after Goldberg, 53, said she was retiring from acting to concentrate on hosting the daytime chat show “The View,” a gig she took over from Rosie O’Donnell in September 2007.

Goldberg said the idea of performing in a new medium really appealed to her, as did the chance to act in sci-fi and horror — two of her favorite genres.

“I did retire. I hadn’t made a movie in quite a while, and I lost my way with the things I was doing. It became entertainment by rote, and there wasn’t a lot being done that I was interested in doing,” Goldberg told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“But the idea that you can be at work and check out a webisode tickles me because that is the future. … I can reinvent my way of acting so that I challenge myself and see where it takes me for the second half of my life.”

This sounds like some desperate-ass Tara Reid shit that she’s trying to spin, but why would Whoopi need a gig like this?

I have to admit, I absolutely loved Whoopi as Guinan in the Star Trek series, though. Yes, I’m a huge Trekkie dork. But I doubt I’ll be tuning into an Internet horror series. I’d just as soon watch that horror spoof that the cast of Newsies made on-set. (I’m serious.)

Will you watch?

Here’s Whoopi Goldberg attending a Prop 8 protest in NYC, on Columbus Ave outside the Mormon church.

Numerous protests this week have focused on the Mormon church’s involvement in (and funding of) the passage of Prop 8 in California.

To check out a less tasteful (but more forceful) take on the anti-Mormon sentiment, click here.

Wow: the gays vs. the Mormons.

Can someone please write a musical about this?

Here’s a clip of Paris on The View on Thursday.

Skip to around 5:20, where Joy Behar assumes that Paris Hilton won’t be allowed to vote because of her brief jail stint for driving with a suspended license.

Whoopi Goldberg shoots her down on that, adding that “the only felony crime in this room is this ridiculous Ed Hardy shirt I’m wearing.” No, no. She didn’t say that. But someone really should have.

Whoopi Goldberg got tongues wagging when she admitted on The View today that she’s had “about fifty” different lovers.

Um … Whoopi’s 52 years old. She was married only briefly when she was 18. So, assuming she lost her virginity at the age of 18, that averages out to approximately 1.47 different men a year.

That’s not called slutty. That’s called dating.

1.47 men? That’s like my monthly figure. Whoopi’s a freakin’ saint.

I thought I was, and then I found this photo.

I have no idea what Whoopi Goldberg is wearing or why.

But I will tell you this, very clearly, so that there’s no confusion: I would very much like to have sex with Adam Duritz. Call me, Adam.