Watching The View

The first topic on The View today was (another) poll, this one about “what people want.” For example, 44% of people want a limit on how many times a person can re-marry. Sherri Shepherd said that if someone gets married seven times, maybe it is not working out. Whoopi said that just because they were married that many times, doesn’t mean than the marriages were not good throughout. Also 41% of people want a renewable contract for marriage after five years. Whoopi said that can help people work on things and move on if they want to. She also added that if a couple doesn’t have kids, a divorce is not a big deal. Elisabeth said that marriage should be more of an investment than five years. The poll said that 29% of people want to be President. Barbara was surprised that it is not more.

People would also look to hear more “Yes, ma’am” or “No, ma’am” from children. Sherri has her nieces and nephews to say “Miss Barbara” or “Miss Goldberg.” Barbara said that she doesn’t like hearing ma’am from a 40 year old, then she feels old. Whoopi said that is based on where you grew up. Barbara said that reporters asked her daughter if she remembered Senator Brooke from her childhood. Jackie said that she did and that she had a lot of “uncles” growing up, but they never stayed over. Whoopi said, “You were busy.” Moments later Barbara took the whole thing back, saying Jackie didn’t have a lot of “uncles.”
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Whoopi Goldberg will be hosting the Tony Awards this year. She can’t remember if she hosted the Tonys in the past, but remembers she hosted the Oscars only because she saw pictures of herself. Sherri Shepherd asked her if she was going to wear a dress and Whoopi asked, “Why do you do that?” She will wear jewelry because you can wear it with anything and you will look good.

Joy Behar will be on Relative Madness: Mama Drama, which is a special about television mothers. It will be on tonight on SoapNet.

Whoopi asked whether a polygamist husband has to get all the wives Mother’s Day presents. Joy said that they should get them DNA tests and Sherri said that they should get bottles of hairspray. That morphed into a conversation about being only children and Joy is one and thinks there is nothing wrong with it. Sherri would like to have a sibling for Jeffrey. Elisabeth said that having a second child was less for her and more for Grace. Joy said it is like a 25 year play date. Sherri said that having more than one child takes the burden off them when they have to care for their parents later in laugh. Elisabeth said that one child usually ends up taking care of the parents anyway. Joy said that she knows a lot of people who don’t speak to their siblings.
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Barbara Walters signed copies of her new memoir Audition on Tuesday at Barnes and Noble in New York City. Here are a few photos of the event.

If you are interested to find out if she is coming to your area, check out this list: Barbara Walters’ book signing schedule.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck attended the “A Diamond is Forever” luncheon on Tuesday. The event honored designer Antony Todd. Here are some photos of Elisabeth at the event. The last picture is her with Hunter Hill, who is the co-writer and director of the film Lake City, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He does not look thrilled to be there.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck appears on the cover of the June issue of Fitness magazine. The cover shot is below.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, The View

Today’s recap will not be up until tomorrow. This site will be down from 6:00 PM CST to 11:59 PM CST today as all of 451 Press is moved to new servers. I apologize for any inconvenience.

The View, Barbara Walters, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Elisabeth Hasselbeck appears on The Rachael Ray Show today. It doesn’t air in my area until the afternoon, but I did find this clip online.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, The View, Rachael Ray

Whoopi Goldberg was mad this morning because her assistant lied that he was “around the corner” and he arrived late to pick her up. When she got in the car she yelled at him for lying and being late and then the driver hit a taxi cab. He was driving a “putt putt” old car. She would have been happier if he was late and it was a nice car. The cab driver asked for $30 to call it even.

Unfortunately I don’t know what they talked about next because my cable company chose that time for a test of the Emergency Alert System.

The next topic was how Elisabeth Hasselbeck doesn’t get any sleep. She said that it is amazing that a child can reduce her to tears everyday. Grace is in a phase where she only wants to be with her daddy. Joy Behar said Taylor cuddled on her breast yesterday and she was tempted to breastfeed him, but she didn’t have the milk.

The rest of the show as dedicated to Supernanny Jo Frost. She has a new book Jo Frost’s Confident Baby Care. She said that there has never been a family that she couldn’t help. The key is to identify the problem objectively and push the family in the right direction.
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Barbara Walters appeared in a taped broadcast on The Oprah Winfrey Show today. She talked a lot about The View, as well as her affair with Senator Brooke, and her family. I will also post video of the interview if it becomes available.

* Barbara named her book Audition because she feels that she has been auditioning her whole life. She feel that she didn’t belong as a child and has been auditioning throughout her professional life.

* The View is a “very happy place” and she looks forward to doing it. The first 9 years were also happy. Then Meredith Viera announced that she was leaving and then Star Jones started to change.

* Star Jones decided not to tell people about her gastric bypass surgery and they had to sit on the show as she lied and said it was portion control and pilates. Barbara went along with the lies because Star was her colleague and she honored her wish.

* Star wanted the most extravagant wedding and so she promoted the items on the show to get them free. Barbara said “we made a big mistake” by allowing her to do the promotion. She and Bill Geddie put a stop to it, so Star went on other shows.
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On The View yesterday, Barbara Walters mentioned that Whoopi Goldberg was receiving a Spirit of Achievement award. Here is a photo of Whoopi from the event, which was held at a luncheon yesterday in New York City.

The annual event is a fundraiser sponsored by the Women’s Division of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It raises money to support medical research and education programs by “honoring outstanding individual women in fields such as philanthropy, the arts, business, government and journalism.”

The View, Whoopi Goldberg, Spirit of Achievement

Barbara Walters attended the “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last night in New York City. Below are some photos of her from the event, including one with Charlie Rose.

The View, Barbara Walters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Charlie Rose

Somehow I completely forgot to watch Rosie O’Donnell on The Today Show today. I was able to find a couple clips of her appearance, although I don’t think this is all of it. There is also an additional video of the craft segment here. In the interview segment she talks about Reverend Wright and responds to Barbara Walters’ comment that she has a lot of rage.

Have you entered my contest to win Rosie’s book Crafty U?

The View, Today Show, Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O’Donnell’s new book Crafty U is a lot of fun as it provides 100 different craft projects you can do on your own or with your children or grandchildren. You can read more about it in my review of Crafty U.

If you would like to own a copy of Crafty U, you can do any or all of the following three methods of entry into our book giveaway contest.

Entries using method one or two will be entered into two separate random drawings to win a copy of the book. There will be one winner per entry method. Entries via method three will be subjectively judged by me and I will pick my favorite and award that person a copy of the book. You can do all three methods of entry if you choose, but only one entry per method. Let me know if you have any questions. All entries must be received by Sunday May 18th at 11:00 p.m. central time.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck talked about running the Revlon Run/Walk, which I wrote about this morning.

Whoopi Goldberg is getting the Spirit of Achievement award. Elisabeth said she saw a photo of Whoopi and her granddaughter in the paper. Whoopi said that she has become more public than she has in the last few years. Barbara’s dog Cha Cha was in the New York Times as part of a review of her book Audition, which is on sale tomorrow.

Barbara’s appearance on Oprah Winfrey will air tomorrow. Barbara said that the story leaked about her affair with Senator Edward Brooke. Sherri said that is the story she loved in the book. Whoopi said that Barbara is the last person she thought would have a deep dark hot affair. She didn’t think of her as attached, but rather as a forerunner for women on television. Sherri said it was “steamy” and Elisabeth said it was “intense” and “a page-turner.” Barbara did not want to talk about it because it will be in the Oprah interview. Joy said to tell The View audience before she tells Oprah! Barbara told him in advance that she was going to reveal the affair in the book. Barbara said that to do the book right, she needed it to be personal, so she included the affair.
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