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Barbara Walters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Barbara Walters swings into Decatur tonight to plug “Audition,” her new memoir that has received such scant publicity recently.
Despite what has seemed like a total news blackout, “Audition” sold a whopping 250,000 copies in its first week, has been at or near the top of the best-seller lists, and has even — you may find this hard to believe — prompted Star Jones to speak out in her own defense.
Walters, who appears on television from time to time, will be at Agnes Scott College tonight at 7. She will be interviewed by Jovita Moore of WSB.
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By connie oglesby
May 19, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
As a past aspiring journalist until I got sidetrack and thought I had to get married at 21 yrs or I was “over the hill”, I trulu admire and always have loved Barbara “Wah-Wah. She believes in pulling minorities up by the bootstarp. And I, as a black woman whom still, after raising children have not given up my dreams thanks to women like her. Thank you Ms. Wah-Wah.
By Gretchen Buckalew
May 19, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
As an Agnes Scott alum (c/o 2003!)it’s nice to see an influential woman gracing the beautiful Agnes Scott campus. Too bad I can’t make it to enjoy the festivities!
By Margy
May 19, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this
barbara walters is a troublemaker.
By jane
May 19, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
I admire her work ethic and what she has accomplished on her own merit. I have not read the book nor do I intend to do so. Having heard that she admits to an affair with a married man horrifies me - before you label me a prude - understand I was the wife of a plandering spouse - it hurt our relationship, sank my self-esteem and took years to get on solid ground - TRUST was gone - And if brought up again for public consumption as the wronged spouse I would be humiliated all over again. This truly goes under the heading of WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?
By Jan Jan Shea
May 19, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
Leave BaBa WaWa alone, none of us is perfect. She wanted to get a lot off her chest so that she can die peacefully. Welcome to Atlanta, hoping Jovita asks the tough questions.
By Elmer
June 5, 2008 1:39 AM | Link to this
Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”“, and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!