Barbara Walters made subjects believe they were getting an open-minded hearing — and that made them talk. mattzollerseitz writes
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Walters knew she was good at what she did and had the awards to prove it: 43 Emmy nominations and eight wins, plus a Peabody Award . Her career stretched from NBC’s local New York City affiliate through ABC’s, which Walters created in 1997 as a roundtable for women of “different generations, backgrounds, and views” and executive-produced and co-hosted until 2014. But whenever she tried to describe her methods, she couldn’t entirely quantify or explain her talent.
Walters was born in Boston, the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her mother, Dena, was a homemaker. Her father, Lou, was a theatrical producer who ran the Latin Quarter nightclubs in Boston, Miami, and New York and co-produced. He was an impulsive man whose fortunes rose and fell drastically and often. “We moved a lot,”. “I went to three different high schools in my four years.
, and Walters hired a former Green Beret to find her and bring her home. In a 2008 interview, Jacqueline toldco-anchor Jane Pauley — another interviewer who considered Walters both a rival and an aspirational figure — that she struggled with depression and alienation over being adopted and having a mother who was often absent or unreachable.
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