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  • May 2008

    • Ex- View Buddies Swap Barbs

      newser  |  Us Magazine  |  May 7, 08 2:40 PM CDT

      Ex- View Buddies Swap Barbs

      Star Jones is blasting back at Barbara Walters for claims made in her new tell-all memoir, US magazine reports. Walters writes in Audition that Jones compelled her and the other co-hosts of The View to lie about her gastric bypass surgery. More »

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      The View  • memoir  • Barbara Walters  • celebrity tell-alls  • Star Jones  • Audition

    • Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  May 6, 08 10:58 AM CDT

      Baba Wawa Flies High on Book Tour

      Barbara Walters is footing the bill so she can travel in style during her 25-city book tour, the Daily News reports. The 78-year-old, who received a $3 million advance for her memoir Audition, will not only pony up for private jet trips, she'll also bring along her hair and makeup artists from The View. More »

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      book  • memoir  • Barbara Walters  • private jet

    • Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 1, 08 3:47 PM CDT

      Barbara Walters Reveals '70s Affair With Married Senator

      Barbara Walters has revealed she had a long affair in the 1970s with Edward Brooke, America’s first elected black senator. In a bombshell admission on a forthcoming episode of Oprah , the grande dame of TV anchors says the married Brooke—a moderate Massachusetts Republican who served in 1967-79—was “exciting” and “brilliant,” the AP reports. More »

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      Oprah Winfrey  • affair  • Barbara Walters

  • March 2008

    • Obama Takes Image Rehab to The View

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 28, 08 1:02 PM CDT

      Obama Takes Image Rehab to The View

      Barack Obama "wouldn't have felt comfortable staying there at the church" had Jeremiah Wright not retired this year, he said today on The View. Obama reiterated his denunciation of his ex-pastor’s sermons, saying Wright had “deeply offended people,” CNN reports. He also told Barbara Walters & Co. that he’d spoken with Wright since the scandal erupted, and the preacher is “saddened by what’s happened.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Hamas  • Jeremiah Wright  • Trinity United Church of Christ  • Barbara Walters

    • Speech Sparks Candor on Race

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 20, 08 3:44 PM CDT

      Speech Sparks Candor on Race

      While a verdict on the political wisdom of Barack Obama’s race address might be months in the coming, the speech has sparked a national conversation on the topic, the New York Times reports—with universities, churches and TV commentators chiming in. The Tuesday speech is the top video on YouTube; one pastor called it a “Rorschach inkblot test” for national feelings on race. More »

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      Barack Obama  • YouTube  • race  • Bill O'Reilly  • Barbara Walters  • Whoopi Goldberg

  • January 2008
  • July 2007
  • June 2007

    • And the 'Winner' of the Who Gets Paris Contest Is...

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 24, 07 12:42 PM CDT

      And the 'Winner' of the Who Gets Paris Contest Is...

      Nobody else wanted her.  So Larry King got the honor of being the first to interview Paris Hilton following her release from jail next week.  After being spurned by the three major networks who were asked for large sums of money for the interview, Hilton finally got a deal done with King.  Total price: $0. More »

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      media  • entertainment  • Paris Hilton  • Larry King  • Barbara Walters  • Meredith Vieira

    • NBC Cancels $1M Deal With Ex-Con Heiress

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Jun 23, 07 8:30 AM CDT

      NBC Cancels $1M Deal With Ex-Con Heiress

      Paris Hilton got jilted by NBC yesterday, the New York Post reports. The peacock network reneged on its reported $1-million offer for her first apres-jail interview after executives got cold feet. Then they decided they didn't even want the "Today" show interview for free. And none of the other networks would touch the heiress on the rebound. More »

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      celebrity  • media  • NBC  • Paris Hilton  • celebrity trials  • Barbara Walters

    • NBC Win$ Battle to Chat Up Paris

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 22, 07 11:36 AM CDT

      NBC Win$ Battle to Chat Up Paris

      NBC seems to have beaten out ABC in a bidding war for the first TV interview with post-jail Paris Hilton, although both networks and the Hilton family officially deny that money changed hands. Paris will come clean to Meredith Vieira rather than family pal Barbara Walters, the Times quotes anonymous ABC execs saying, unless an offer materializes that tops $750,000. More »

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      television  • media  • NBC  • entertainment  • Paris Hilton  • ABC  • Barbara Walters  • Meredith Vieira

    • Paris Declares She's Got God Intentions

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 12, 07 6:17 AM CDT

      Paris Declares She's Got God Intentions

      Paris Hilton says she's found God and will change her life at the end of her 45-day jail term. Barbara Walters chatted with the heretofore mischievous and materialistic heiress on a collect call from prison, and recapped the conversation on yesterday's View . "I have become much more spiritual," Paris said. "God has given me this new chance." More »

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      celebrity  • religion  • Paris Hilton  • jail  • ABC  • The View  • Barbara Walters  • faith  • God  • LA County Jail

  • April 2007

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