Watching The View

Whoopi Goldberg was today’s guest host and she came to the show after doing her syndicated radio show, Wake Up With Whoopi, which airs on several channels throughout the United States. She said she likes doing radio because she doesn’t “have to dress.”

Rosie O’Donnell talked about her trip to San Antonio over the weekend for the opening of a rehabilitation facility for veterans of the Iraq war. She met a lot of soldiers and said that each one is a hero and “braver than any human you can imagine.” She said the experience was “humbling” and she was “honored to be in their presence.” She thought what one soldier said was especially poignant. He said that the soldiers didn’t lose their limb or their sight, but rather they gave it for their country.

She said that she echoes the sentiments of John McCain, who said in a speech over the weekend that although people disagree about the war, there is “never any doubt that everyone stands behind the armed forces.”

Harry Connick, Jr was on the show to promote his two albums being released today: Oh, My Nola, a traditional album and Chanson du Vieux Carre, which he describes as “straight-up jazz” with no singing. He also spoke about a project that he has in New Orleans with Branford Marsalis and Habitat for Humanity. They have purchased 8 acres of land and have already built 70 houses and duplexes and a community center in a “musician’s village” to house local musicians who were displaced after Hurricane Katrina. Their goal is to build 1500 houses.

Kristin Davis, of Sex and the City, said they are “closer” to a Sex and the City movie and that she is “doing everything in her personal power” to see that it happens. She said that everyone involved agrees that if it will be done that it “needs to be great.” Personally she wants the movie to happen because she believes that her character, Charlotte, is unfinished. She also said that contrary to reports, the producers never told the women on the show that they needed to be thin, but they may have told the male actors that. She was on the show to promote the Celebrity Pasta Lovers’s cookbook, which is available for free download online here. For every download, $1 will be donated to America’s Second Harvest which supplies food to food banks throughout the United States.

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