The View September 17th Recap: Mandy Moore and Mario Cantone
The View, with the full panel back at the table, started the discussion today talking about The Emmy Awards. Elisabeth Hasselbeck liked the fact that the awards were “green” and done in an environmentally friendly way. Barbara Walters said that now all the stars have stylists there are not really any ugly outfits anymore. Whoopi Goldberg talked about a lime green outfit that she wore to the Oscars (pictured to the left).
Sherri Shepherd said that she liked that The Emmy Awards paid tribute to Roots because it is the 30th anniversary of the miniseries. She also pointed out that she and Joy Behar both guest starred on 30 Rock, which won the award for best comedy program.
Joy’s daughter was married last Friday. Joy said that she did not cry during the ceremony, but afterward she got a little choked up. She said that her friend Susie Essman was bawling the entire time. Joy is very proud of her daughter and very happy for her. Barbara and Elisabeth were both at the wedding. For a couple photos from the wedding, click here.
Barbara has a new radio show on SIRIUS called Barbara Live. It is a call-in show and she and Bill Geddie will answer audience questions.
Sherri said that she was riding her bicycle down the sidewalk and there were a lot of old people in her way. She kept saying “excuse me” to get them to move. Barbara said that the “old people” have a right to be on the sidewalk and she is not supposed to ride her bike on the sidewalk. Sherri fell and scraped her arm and leg. She was glad that she did not knock her teeth out because then Barbara would fire her. Barbara said that she is more likely to fire her for troubling the “old people.” Barbara then quickly added “I don’t fire people.” Sherri said that she was wearing a helmet so that she was able to protect her weave.
They then talked about O.J. Simpson’s arrest. Sherri wanted to know how anyone would allow O.J. to talk them into going into a room with guns. Whoopi said that he should have gone to the police and not gone in there on his own to get back the memorabilia he claimed was his. The book that O.J. wrote about the murders for which he was acquitted, which was called, If I Did It, has been renamed I Did It and is currently number one on Amazon. Barbara has read the book and said that it is very detailed and graphic.
They next talked about the book written by Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the reserve. In his book he attacks the Bush Administration. Barbara used to date Alan Greenspan and there is a chapter about her in the book! Did anyone else know that? I had no idea that she dated him! She said that many many years ago when they were dating, she was going to buy an apartment in New York City for about $250,000. He told her that it would be a bad investment. Today the apartment would be worth millions!
Mandy Moore appeared on the show to promote her new film Dedication. They showed a clip of Mandy when she was on The View in 1999, which was her television debut.
She said that she mentioned to a magazine that she was “blue” after a break-up which motivated her to write her latest album. She said that she became a “poster child” for depression, even though she did not suffer from depression. Her new album, Wild Hope, is very personal and talks in detail about having her heart broken.
Mandy said that the fun about being an actress is to challenge herself, which is why she decided to be in Dedication. She will also be in the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother.
Comedian Mario Cantone was on the show to give his Emmy wrap-up. When he came out he said to Barbara and the others, “Thanks for the job, bitches!” in reference to the fact that he was rumored to get a permanent spot hosting on the show. He claimed that it was “penile discrimination.” He added that they could have killed two birds with two stones because he is both “a gay man and a black woman.”
His comedy does not really lend itself to recapping, so hopefully ABC will post a clip of the segment for those of you that want to watch it. I thought this segment was not as funny as some of his previous wrap-ups.
Mandy Moore closed out the show with a performance of “Nothing that you are” off of her new album Wild Hope.
The View, Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd, O.J. Simpson, Emmy awards, Alan Greenspan, Mandy Moore, Mario Cantone
September 17th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I’m sorry: I posted in the wrong place (in the wedding pictures place, when it should have gone here):
As usual, Winnie’s site is great. Thanks for the pictures from the wedding! Joy’s daughter is very pretty, and looks like Joy. The dress looks lovely, too. That is a very handsome couple. Would love to see pics of Joy and Steve and Joy’s ex. It made me sad to hear that EH went to the wedding since of course we know Rosie did not (she has said she wasn’t invited because she doesn’t know Joy’s daughter). Rosie really is the odd-woman-out, it seems. I wonder if her name will ever be broached on The View again, even when she is in the news, as she now is, with her book. Over the weekend more excerpts came out from the book, including one that said Joy “had her claws out” for Rosie when she first joined the panel, but apparently softened. Of course I am guilty of taking this out of context. I’m as bad as the media! I’ll be eager to read the entire book to decide for myself how mean or not her comments were about The View.
I agree, Winnie, that Mario Cantone’s jokes about the Emmys were not as funny this time around. I was very disappointed.
I was also disappointed that the discussion about Alan Greenspan’s book was so lightly discussed (though of course it IS very interesting to learn that Babs dated him once, and that he foolishly advised her not to buy her NYC apt. — in Jackie O’s building, of all places! — for $200,000!). As Winnie correctly reported, Babs used the word “attack” in describing Greenspan’s criticism of Bush. It seems to be the word everyone now uses to describe criticism of this administration’s mind-bogglingly dangerous mistakes and missteps and judgment calls. To say “attack” makes me think Babs, like the rest of the media, thinks negatively of anyone who dares to criticize the stupid things Bush does. Interestingly, Greenspan is a lifelong Republican, though that wasn’t mentioned, either. He has now come out to “clarify” some of his criticism of Bush’s decisision to go to war with Iraq, and is back-pedaling a bit. I wish we could have heard more about this than the other topics, especially O.J. I guess they really are battening down the hatches and do not want to “go there” wherever politics or the war is concerned?
The group seems to be gelling quite a bit and it seems even with Babs there today that they like one another and converse well.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I don’t think that Rosie’s not being invited to the wedding is any kind of diss to her….she has never met the bride! She and Joy are not personal friends–they were coworkers for 8 months and professional acquaintances. And since invitations only go out 6 weeks prior to the wedding, RO was long since gone! In light of RO’s new book, THANK GOD SHE WASN”T INVITED!! Wouldn’t THAT have been awkward
September 17th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
I wonder is the newest cohosts were invited. I’ve seen situations in which some coworkers are invited to an event and some are not. Come Monday morning, the “chosen ones” delighfully discuss amongst themselves what a great time they’ve had. This is done in the presence of the uninvited ones, of course. Yes, I’ve been there. :(. Congrats to the bride!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Barbara doesn’t want to talk about the war. Whoopie doesn’t want to talk about OJ, so just because she doesn’t want to means no one else can. Elisabeth just sits there and makes even stupider comments about nothing, because that’s what they talk about…nothing. How fast this show has gone down hill in such a short time. The interviews and other “segments” are a bore.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Nominate TONY to be a cohost!!!!
busting ur chops again lmaooo yeah the show now sucks.. no fun.. no subjects discussed worth listening to any more.. but where they before Rosie arrived????
September 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I LOVE this blog but I must confess, I do NOT love the new panel on The View. It seems that Bill Geddie (who strikes me as a conservative family man) has shown his true stripes in the way he has built the panel. With the exception of Elisabeth, (who really doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up) there is nobody on the panel who represents the majority of the viewers- the moms, the families, the middle americans! JOY is an bitter senior citizen most days who only knows how to rant, (tired old act) Barbara exudes class and style but has spent too much time as a mega millionaire to be able to relate to most people (nothing she can do about this fact and I love her)and now Bill Geddie goes and puts two black female comedians on, which is simply too much of a good thing. The panel needs some comedy but TWO of the same sort of personalities?? Whoopie is just another Joy Behar, another bitter senior citizen who only knows how to rant and Sherri Shepherd, a single parent, seems so intimidated by Whoopi, she barely has much to say, none of which is particularly funny or relevant. Although, If we were going to rid the panel of one of the two new-comers, I would certainly keep Sherri and send Whoopi back to her retirement home. She just isn’t funny or relevant any more. She is a legend for sure, but so not right for every day tv. A little Whoopi goes a long way.
The show should have gone with a male host- but NOT a gay male host.
October 7th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
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