Wow, Barbara Walters really IS old.

[Drunken Irishman]

Had to catch that before they fixed it. :o

[rurallib]

1. when was she born? 1898?

[UTUSN]

2. I just printed out a pic & story about her affair with Senator Edward BROOKE

for somebody who had never heard of it before.



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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/05/barbara_walters_and_sen_edward.html

Barbara Walters and Senator Edward Brooke: The Secret Was Already Out

"A year after I became President Ford's White House photographer," Kennerly e-mailed last night, "there were items swirling around in the press suggesting that I was dating President Ford's daughter Susan (I wasn't), that I was out of favor with him (I wasn't), and that my staff was being cut back, and perhaps my whole operation was going to be eliminated (it wasn't). Those pieces coincided with an appearance I was going to make on the Today Show with Barbara Walters a couple of weeks later in the fall of 1975. On the way over to the NBC studios in New York, I told a photographer buddy who was accompanying me that if the overly inquisitive Ms. Walters brought those matters up I was going to mention" the Brooke item.

"When the time came for me to sit face-to-face with her on live television, she quickly unleashed the heavy artillery, asking me about all of the above," Kennerly continued. "I waited until she finished the anticipated question and said, 'Well Barbara, I put those stories in the same category as those about you and Senator Ed Brooke, they are rumor and gossip.' The interview took an immediate turn in my favor."

Kennerly added that, the next day, NBC News anchor John Chancellor, Walters's former Today co-host, phoned him at the White House. "I thought he was going to give me a hard time, but instead he said, 'Kennerly, you're a hero at NBC.'"

The Today interview was the beginning of a beautiful frenemyship between Walters and Kennerly, who has seldom missed a chance to dis the diva. It was Kennerly, for instance, who leaked the famous story about Walters's crazed behavior at the 1980 Republican National Convention, when former president Gerald Ford revealed to CBS anchor Walter Cronkite that he'd be interested in a "co-presidency" with nominee Ronald Reagan. Walters was lurking outside the CBS anchor booth to wrangle Ford for herself. Kennerly recalls that when the former president left the booth, Walters was all over him, begging him to repeat the scoop for ABC. "She was foaming at the mouth," Kennerly says. "She said, 'Mr. President, you've got to do this for old time's sake. For Alan's sake.' It was one of the most unseemly performances I'd ever witnessed." After Edward Brooke, Walters had dated former Ford White House economic adviser Alan Greenspan.

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[mnhtnbb]

3. Have you noticed that when she talks the only thing that moves is her jaw?

She's had so much surgery/botox, she has absolutely no movement in her face.