Seeing Gilda again was fun. The hair was one well done whammy, with the weird speech impediment serving as the double. Henry was also well done, with him now closing in on that stage in real life at 99 years of age.
Once again, Walters, born in 1929 (eight years after my mom) appears to have found ways to handle the chaos, drama, losses and challenges she experienced during childhood and later in life by honing in on what worked for her. She grew up with an older brother who died when she was 15, an older sister who was mentally disabled and a father who was a trip--not only tangled up in show business, but also someone who "made and lost several fortunes throughout his life". Add four marriages to three different men to her life mix, along with three miscarriages and one adopted child.
It makes sense to me that she became someone who liked the limelight, was full of questions and made her way through life with a penchant for control. For whatever she was or wasn't, whatever harm or good she managed to do (with The View in a category all by itself) these words from an interview she gave ten years ago, do not sound like the words of a worthless bitch, so much as those of a woman who was looking for and found for good or ill, her own way to survive and thrive.
"Walters was extremely candid on Tuesday night, revealing that she looks back at her life and wishes she had done some things differently.
She opened up during an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, who asked her, "If you could relive one moment in your life, the moment that brought you the greatest satisfaction, thrill, sadness perhaps, the moment?"
"Can I tell you what I regret when you're talking that way?" Walters began. "I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family. I have one daughter. I don't have brothers and sisters. I had a sister that I loved and she was developmentally challenged, I guess, is how they put it."
"I wish I had a bigger family," she added."
Oddly enough, with the audiences she managed to garner, it looks like she made that wish come as close to true as she could manage.
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Succinct, accurate, but too restrained. Tell us how you really feel.
RIP? Yeah, you don't mean that.. One less Mockingbird!
You have to be more specific, there are so many of them.
I was wondering if I hadn't heard of Hanoi Jane's passing.
Don't you mean "West in Peace".
Seeing Gilda again was fun. The hair was one well done whammy, with the weird speech impediment serving as the double. Henry was also well done, with him now closing in on that stage in real life at 99 years of age.
Once again, Walters, born in 1929 (eight years after my mom) appears to have found ways to handle the chaos, drama, losses and challenges she experienced during childhood and later in life by honing in on what worked for her. She grew up with an older brother who died when she was 15, an older sister who was mentally disabled and a father who was a trip--not only tangled up in show business, but also someone who "made and lost several fortunes throughout his life". Add four marriages to three different men to her life mix, along with three miscarriages and one adopted child.
It makes sense to me that she became someone who liked the limelight, was full of questions and made her way through life with a penchant for control. For whatever she was or wasn't, whatever harm or good she managed to do (with The View in a category all by itself) these words from an interview she gave ten years ago, do not sound like the words of a worthless bitch, so much as those of a woman who was looking for and found for good or ill, her own way to survive and thrive.
"Walters was extremely candid on Tuesday night, revealing that she looks back at her life and wishes she had done some things differently.
She opened up during an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, who asked her, "If you could relive one moment in your life, the moment that brought you the greatest satisfaction, thrill, sadness perhaps, the moment?"
"Can I tell you what I regret when you're talking that way?" Walters began. "I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family. I have one daughter. I don't have brothers and sisters. I had a sister that I loved and she was developmentally challenged, I guess, is how they put it."
"I wish I had a bigger family," she added."
Oddly enough, with the audiences she managed to garner, it looks like she made that wish come as close to true as she could manage.
Troop, you always get right to the point! Glad you are still with us.
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