Barbara Walters dies at 93. The legendary newscaster broke boundaries during her more than 50 years on the air.
. And no other woman in television journalism had a longer career, with more hits and flops, scoops and controversies, praise and ridicule.
Her"Barbara Walters Specials" for years were among the top-rated broadcasts, and included a Who’s Who of entertainers such as Sir Laurence Olivier, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Her"Most Fascinating People" special broadcasts, launched in 1993, offered a year-end review of prominent newsmakers of the year.
One question she herself perennially ducked: Her exact age. “Every woman is entitled to one fetish,” she said in that interview. “It’s so silly. Let’s just say I’m closer to 80 than 70.” After a theatrical pause, she added, “Now you’re supposed to tell me how good I look.” Walters’ memoir revealed that in the 1970s she had a “rocky” affair with Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, the first Black elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, who was married. She described Brooke as “the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming and impossible man.”
She was famous for attempting, and more often than not succeeding, in drawing tears from interview subjects. She said she’d asked about her subject’s childhood, “because that’s revealing, and they’d remember a parent or someone who’d died. That’s before every celebrity getting out of rehab would cry.”
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