Audition: A Memoir

Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters

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Author: Barbara Walters
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 0307279960
Number of pages: 612
Publisher: Vintage

Book Reviews of Audition: A Memoir

Book Review: An enjoyable book that I'd recommend to anybody intested in finding more about what makes Walters tick.
Summary: 5 Stars

I've long admired Barbara Walters as a television journalist . . . however,
until I heard AUDITION, her autobiography that she both wrote and
read, I knew little about her.

This was a most enjoyable book that I'd recommend to anybody
interested in finding about more about what makes Walters tick . . . I learned
that she lived a nomadic childhood, often moving because her father
Lou Walters would be involved in various nightclub ventures throughout
the country.

She then became perhaps the most successful female newscaster
of all time, largely because she had to stand up to such counterparts
as Frank McGee and then Harry Reasoner . . . it wasn't easy at times;
however, she persevered and eventually won the prestigious Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts
and Science.

There are a lot of details about her encounters with such celebrities as Judy
Garland, Golda Meir, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro . . . but to Walters'
credit, none of it feels gossipy . . . rather, it's almost as if you're sitting
down with her over coffee and watching the TV show she now co-hosts,
THE VIEW.

I particularly liked her advice about the right ways and the wrong
ways to ask touchy questions. When dealing with a heinous killer,
for instances, Walters advises against asking, "How could you be such
a monster?" Far better to do it this way: "There are people who think
you are a monster. How do you respond to that?"

In addition, I got a kick out of reading about her reaction to Gilda Radner's
caricature of her as "Baba Wawa" on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE . . . though
audiences found it "hysterically funny," she at first found the spoof
"extremely upsetting" . . . only when her daughter told her to
"lighten up" did she realize she was losing all perspective . . . Walters
later met Gilda Radner and told her she thought the caricature
was funny, and when Radner died of ovarian cancer, Walters sent
a simple note to her husband, Gene Wilder . . . it read: "She made
me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa."

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Summary of Audition: A Memoir

Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public and private journey.

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