Star: "U R A SLUT LOLZ" Barbara: "SRSLY?"
In an interview with Us Weekly, Star Jones blasted Barbara Walters and her new memoir, Audition. In the book, Walters claims that Jones forced her to lie on air about the rotund host having gastric bypass surgery, saying instead that her weight loss was due to portion control (Ed note. more like she lost "control" so she had to have a "portion" of her stomach surgically removed) and Pilates. Star was pissed, so -- in reference to Walter's revelation that she had an affair with a married Senator in the 1970s -- she basically called her an old slut:
"It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character." (Source)
Isn't it a little harsh to say someone's "in the sunset of their life" when you've been "in the buffet line of life" for most of yours? I'd say that Star's comments were harsh and insensitive if they weren't the exact sort of things I say for a living. Of course the difference between what she says and what I say is that I don't usually do it with my mouth full of cheesecake.
It's a sad day when anyone listens to Star Jones. This used up bag needs to go away, far far away.
Star is delusional, just ask Big Gay Al.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, in the blue corner weighing in at a hefty 300, no 250, no 125 pounds the mouth of the south Star Jones. In the red corner weighing in at 98 pounds, with skin thiner than tissue paper, cracker jack hips, and one hell of a speech impediment is Barbara Walters. God help us all.
Barbara Walter's life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she's written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor's book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don't have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. ""I want what she's having"", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!