Lessons learned from Barbara Walters
I’ve been watching Barbara Walters in several interviews as she pushes her book Audition. I have not read her book, but I’m not completely opposed to the idea of reading it. Last night she was on the Stephen Colbert Show & he put palm trees in the background & made the camera lense all soft & blurry. It looked exactly like The View & that made me giggle. She asked Stephen why he never came on the View & he said because he was scared. I don’t blame him I would never go on that show without safety equipment.
Barbara is arguably one of the most recognized anchors/interviewers ever. It was interesting to see that even she feels insecure. On Oprah she seemed to open up about Star Jones & Rosie O’Donnell, which was brave. When both of these women publicly left the show Barbara just played it off as, oh they went to pursue other things. Now we learn that it was just a huge mess, which most of us already knew. I think Barbara just always feels the need to say that everything is ok, everything is fine.
In every interview she seems to be asked why she called the book Audition. Doesn’t she already have the part? Barbara always replies that she was always auditioning for someone’s affection or job. Then she says something like “Tonight, on this show here with you, I’ve finally stopped auditioning.” That would be great if she didn’t say it in every single interview. I think she is still auditioning, just this time as an author, & that is sad.
