Posted on 10/05/08
The face that launched a thousand tears
NEW YORK -- Is Barbara Walters about to cry? A crumpled, sodden tissue in hand, she dabs at her runny nose and gazes out the floor-to-ceiling window of her corner office, 10 storeys above the street. It is a drizzly New York afternoon out there, a melancholy moment in the life of the city, and here is Walters discussing her memoir Audition, which arrived in bookstores this week crammed full of lump-in-the-throat stories about her tough childhood, the people she's loved and lost, and the price of her own success. "This is going to be a very difficult two months," allows Walters, as she considers the imminent publicity encounters.
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