Bahbwah WAHwah just had her "Chinatown" moment: "My daughter, my sister..."

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They were talking about Marie OSMOND's having gone on with the show days after her son's suicide. Bahbwah said that her first thought was critical, that if her own daughter died Bahbwah would "go under the covers" indefinitely. But then she remembered that her beloved sister, who had ovarian cancer, died and the news was given to Bahbwah minutes before she had to go onstage to deliver a speech, and she went. She said, "I went ahead minutes after hearing that MY DAUGHTER, MY SISTER... had passed."


Yeah-yeah, I'm going to be flamed for being so insensitive. I realize that Bahbwah had these close relationships. I don't know what it is about her that makes me more willing to be flamed about her than almost all other topics, perhaps something to do with her decades of demanding that everybody else spill their guts while she maintained her own privacy, until she either needed to dig a new financial well or to remake hersself as more relevant by revealing some of her own sexcapades. Were they REAL? More pertinently, were they SATISFYING to her partners?! Although Senator BROOKE is 88 yrs old, did she ask his permission to spill?!1

It was disgusting when she touched (and kissed?) the Dalai Lama, FORCED her version of "modernity" on him.

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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.'" ....

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[applegrove]

1. I saw Chinatown when I was about 12. That moment in the film was the most shocking thing

I can remember from my childhood. I didn't know abuse like that existed.

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3. Gosh, I was 27 in 1974 and barely became educated BY the movie about what they were TALKING about!1

Even then, I didn't "get" that it was something that happens as often as it actually does. I took it to be some desperate screenwriter's attempt at something weirdly "new".

Oh, & did I mention that: 1) I'm a DUDE. 2) Had completed college plus 4 yrs military by 1974?!1

[NNadir]

2. At the risk of more flames, understanding what Polanski did, Chinatown is one of the greatest

films of all time.