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Was Donatello’s Crying During the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Barbara Walters Interview an Accident?

Brian Cronin — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:29:00 +0000

In a new TV Legends Revealed, learn whether Donatello's crying jag on Barbara Walters' Oscar Special was an intentional gag or not

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Even Barbara Walters Regretted How She Pressed Ricky Martin On Whether He Was Gay

Brian Cronin — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:04:48 +0000

In a feature spotlighting pop culture moments that were a mistake, Brian takes a look at the time that Barbara Walters essentially tried to publicly out Ricky Martin back in 2000.

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The True Origins of ‘If You Were a Tree, What Kind of Tree Would You Be?’

Brian Cronin — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:54:02 +0000

In a feature explaining once-topical references in pop culture, we look at the origins of the infamous celebrity interview question, "If you were a tree, what tree would you be?"

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Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters Had Different Recollections of Why She Broke Out on the Today Show

Brian Cronin — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:40:06 +0000

Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters both had slightly different versions of the story of how Walters broke out as a correspondent for The Today Show in 1964

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How Barbara Walters Came to Terms With ‘Baba Wawa’

Brian Cronin — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 04:58:55 +0000

Barbara Walters explained how she came to terms with Gilda Radner's iconic "Baba Wawa" impression of Walters

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The Network Politics That Led to Barbara Walters Becoming an Iconic Interviewer

Brian Cronin — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 03:40:38 +0000

Barbara Walters was one of the most famous television interviewers of all-time, but it's interesting to see how network politics sort of drove her into it.

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