After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. [/p] A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers, Walters says. [/p] At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was a rising star in TV news and co-host of NBC's "Today" show, but would soon jump to ABC News, where she has enjoyed unrivalled success. Her affair with Brooke, which never before came to light, had ended before he lost his bid for a third term in 1978. [/p] Brooke later divorced, and has since remarried. Calls to a listing for Brooke in Miami by The Associated Press were not immediately returned Thursday. [/p] Walters is the guest of Oprah Winfrey to discuss her new memoir, "Audition," which covers her long career in television, as well as her off-camera life. On "Oprah," Walters recounts a phone call from a friend who urged her to stop seeing Brooke. [/p] "He said, 'This is going to come out. This is going to ruin your career,"' then reminded her that Brooke was up for re-election a year later. "'This is going to ruin him. You've got to break this off."' [/p] Winfrey asks Walters if she was in love. [/p] "I was certainly - I don't know - I was certainly infatuated." [/p] "Infatuated." [/p] "I was certainly involved," Walters says. "He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington."
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All I can say is - eeeeowwwwww.........
lol
Who is Barbara Walters?
An American TV journalist/personality
I heard the name. For some reason I thought it was a televangelist's wife?
I should probably exand my news other than Canadian or BBC. I am dumb!!
I'd also heard the name but nothing more. This makes me wonder just who is the least famous celebrity of them all?
I guess it would be going too far back for anyone to remember Gilda Radner doing Baba Wawa?
(old Saturday Night Live)
well she was the first woman broadcaster to be on national tv.
Van wrote:
I heard the name. For some reason I thought it was a televangelist's wife?
I should probably exand my news other than Canadian or BBC. I am dumb!!
I bet Barbara knew how to expand....
She doesn't know your name. Why would you need to know hers?
ha! Well, I googled who she was and I will let some other person expand her. Gah!!!
Do people actually care if she had an affair 1000 years ago?
P.C. wrote:
I guess it would be going too far back for anyone to remember Gilda Radner doing Baba Wawa?
(old Saturday Night Live)[/DIV]
That must have been when SNL was actually funny. Ackroyd and Belushi!!
Van wrote:
ha! Well, I googled who she was and I will let some other person expand her. Gah!!!
Do people actually care if she had an affair 1000 years ago?
My thoughts exactly. I wouldn't even know how to begin expanding her....
That must have been when SNL was actually funny. Ackroyd and Belushi!!
Absolutely. Original crew (I think) Beluschi, Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtain, Lorraine Newman (and I THINK but no sure...Chevy Chase and Steve Martin ???) [/DIV]
News people are giant celebrities in the states. The closest you've got here is Mansbridge. Walters turned herself into a brand with The View as well. She's like Oprah without the billions.
[h1 style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 12px;"][font style="font-family: Arial Narrow;" size="3"][span style="font-weight: normal;"]"I hope we've progressed to a place where it isn't like Barbara Walters, where she is making a lot of money and becomes a target." - Carol Williams[/span][/font]
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I hate to spoil a 'zen moment', but who's Carol.....and what did she mean?
Sportsdude wrote:
News people are giant celebrities in the states. The closest you've got here is Mansbridge.
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Bill Good isn't a giant celebrity, but if you ever see him in person, you will notice that he has a giant melon on his shoulders. He's also quite a tall giant. But a friendly one.
He's got a radio programme on CKNW right?
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Sportsdude wrote:
News people are giant celebrities in the states. The closest you've got here is Mansbridge. Walters turned herself into a brand with The View as well. She's like Oprah without the billions.
Who's Oprah?
kidding...sadly, I know who she is. She is a sausage and ham chef no?
[FONT size=7]LOL! [/FONT]
You don't know Oprah!!!
OMG's
If you have a gf and you're living in the states, she'll break up with you probably for saying who's Oprah. omg, omg. like no way.
She's God.
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lol, yes, I think even Mars knows who Orpa is.
Michel wrote:
That's the girl on the Aunt Jemima box right ?
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sheesh! What a culturally insensitive comment.
These guys from Quebec are such racists...
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Bring your friends with you.
Did they sing while they fought/ran away?
M'en revenant de la jolie Rochelle
M'en revenant de la jolie Rochelle
J'ai rencontré trois jolies demoiselles.[/p] Refrain
C'est l'aviron qui nous mène, qui nous mène
C'est l'aviron qui nous mène en haut.[/p]
nah. I think my family beats you all in the fighting wars and oppression, no offense. ;) Don't want to get carried away here. It's violent.
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Oh yes, I remember that song.
Really, I was just being silly...trying to think of a song that your French ancestors sang. Did they battle with canoe paddles? Did they throw boiling maple syrup at the English?
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Battle Uniforms
Excellent history lesson. Thank you :)
Oka cheese. Mmmmmm. I haven't bought any for a long time. Used to serve it to guests, but the smell really travels if you leave it out of the fridge for an hour. Just like a bowl of olives.
You KNOW that the guests are saying:
*sniff*
What is that bad SMELL? Is it her house?
Yeah, the stinky cheese must be the real reason for the Oka land claim dispute in 1990....
Don't make me live down wind of the *gasp* cheese factory *eyes watering*
lol
And did they build the golf course?
well its nice to see the good side win every now and then. I've seen too many losses with protesting on macro issues, I don't see the point some times.
Big thing over here (on the island) is the clear cutting of the trees (trees are more important then people, really, people don't live 1,000s of years).
Clayoquot Sound is a national shame, but hey when most of the land on the Island isn't crown lands, so its free reign apparently.
Sportsdude wrote:
Big thing over here (on the island) is the clear cutting of the trees (trees are more important then people, really, people don't live 1,000s of years).
Clayoquot Sound is a national shame, but hey when most of the land on the Island isn't crown lands, so its free reign apparently.
Please teach us, oh wise one...on forest, parks, crown land issues of British Columbia....
EDIT: don't mind me, I been working my butt off this week...didn't mean to snap at you again.
No biggie, I just got that info from a b.c parks/ forestry worker and the chair of forestry mgmt at school, probably should have clarified that. From what I've been told/read Crown land has more protection and rules while private doesn't. Would you know?
But I knew about Clayqout Sound years ago, the whole world does...
That they're clear cutting right up to the Pacific Rim Park, these trees are old growth 1,000s of years old.
Kennedy Provincial Park the giant lake, you can see a whole mountain side gone.
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Apparently they've started mining as well. Only thing I seem to get miltant about these days is environmentalism.
Well the even more sickening part of it is that the logs are clear cutted, and that they don't go to homes or anything but magazines and newspapers. (most of the trees in the north of the island apparently go to become newspapers in San Francisco, the big smelly plant in CR is apparently for paper). But these logs don't even come into the local communities, they get shipped down to Seattle. So the logging and stupid destruction for no reason except for the reason that they can, continues while pulp mills close everywhere on the Island.
I've always wanted to mock the political bumper stickers of my home town. So I was bored some weekend thought of pro-tree slogans using the extreme right stickers you see with every other car for the most part back 'home'.
"Its a Tree not a clear cut"
"Save life, save a tree"
"Stop murdering our future"
"Against the destruction of Trees"
and so on.
lol
hahaha.
Only a bumper sticker like that would come from the West Coast. brilliant.
Sportsdude wrote:
Well the even more sickening part of it is that the logs are clear cutted, and that they don't go to homes or anything but magazines and newspapers. (most of the trees in the north of the island apparently go to become newspapers in San Francisco, the big smelly plant in CR is apparently for paper). But these logs don't even come into the local communities, they get shipped down to Seattle. So the logging and stupid destruction for no reason except for the reason that they can, continues while pulp mills close everywhere on the Island.
You are partly right. That being said, don't believe everything you hear or read. Especially propaganda from FOC. Don't get me wrong, it is absolutely amazing. I just don't always believe twisted so called "facts". Whether it be Left or Right.
That smelly plant in CR is a pulp mill. Pulp mills are built for one reason, to make paper. (PG's smell makes CR smell like roses HA!)...
SOME of the logs are shipped directyly to the USA, some to Japan, etc. I know, it doesn't make sense to me either. But to say every log is being used to make paper for readership in the USA is false. The paper market is actually doing better than the lumber market for about 5 years now. Not much building going on stateside, and yes, BC mills ship about 95% of their finished lumber to the USA. Lumber companies will continue to ship lumber, even at a profit loss, so they don't lose their parcelled land that has been 'claimed' by the forest companies. Sawmills across North America are taking a beating these days, stateside, Quebec, BC, etc.
I can only speak for the BC industry, because I grew up in this province and have a lot of family and friends involved in the industry since my great grandpa came to BC. Crappy market conditions, poor logging practices, pine beetle (in the interior), and ridiculous union wages paying some fat ass $35.00/hr to push a button will kill most of what is left of the forest industry. It will never die completely, but it will never be the giant it was in the 50s - 80s.
Hemp and tourism, BC's only real solution! Oh, and fruit, and wine....and mountain biking..ok, mountain biking isn't an industry..but come on! It rules!
Thanks so much Van. :))) I'm lacking in knowledge in this area. My knowledge is more on farm related issues due to my back family background, so logging and Pacific Northwest issues are foreign to me. Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated. :))
One thing to add: Any person with a skill or trade in the forest industry such as welders, carpenters, should do alright in finding work if they are let go from the industry. It is, like I say, the workers that push the ON/OFF/CUT...buttons that are going to have a hard time. Sawmill/Pulp Mill work could be done by Kindergarten students. No offence to anyone working in a sawmill, but it is the truth. The same guys with 3 kids, a large house, 2 ski-dos, RV, trucks, quads...30-40 years and no skill, but made a great wage. They got so used to the money, it became second nature. Now, what do they do? They guys not ready for retirement, but have been in the industry a few decades.
Hey, reminds me of an uncle of mine...
Nice! We took the original topic and turned it once again...DS is cool!
hahaha everything either turns into something political or SEX.
lol
I read in the paper a Northern California plant is recruiting laid off people up here.
I think it is definately hit and miss wherever you go. Oregon's forest industry is becoming devastated.
Then there is places like Elko, BC where they are expanding operations, yet most operations in BC haved downsized, or shut down all together. Doesn't effect me too much. I just hope people can retrain and adjust.
Is Northern California recruiting sawmill or pulp mill workers? Or skilled forest technicians and engineers? To work in a saw/pulp mill, there really isn't skill to bring.
Push button ON, Push button OFF, Push SAW button...turn off SAW...clean up..coffee break...
There is also jobs like keeping lumber straight so production runs smoothly. You should tour a sawmill in BC, very interesting.
People in the small towns i.e Port Hardy places eventually find another source of income or job, but from what it looks like if you live in basically a village of loggers and pulp workers that place becomes a ghost town.
I believe the article in the paper was for everyone. I believe it was a pulp mill, but they were looking to hire in all subjects of the field.