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Barbara Walters

In conversation with Marcia Brandwynne

Thursday, May 15 , 2008  |  Masonic Auditorium , 8 pm

As the first woman to cohost a network news program, Barbara Walters has built a career as a pioneering broadcaster, and one of the most recognizable media figures in the world. In her upcoming memoir, Audition: A Memoir, Walters looks back on her long and lauded career. Her numerous interviews include global leaders Boris Yeltsin, Indira Ghandi and a young Fidel Castro, as well as celebrities from Michael Jackson to Bette Davis. In Audition: A Memoir, Walters delves into her five decades in the broadcast journalism and the forces that drove her success. Her father, Louis Edward Walters, owned the Latin Quarter nightclubs and worked as a Broadway producer in New York. A childhood spent around celebrities gave Walters an ease and confidence. This self-assurance translated into grace in front of a camera. Walters began her broadcasting career in the late 1950s and co-anchored on The Today Show on NBC from 1962-1976. Though the 1950s through mid-1970s were difficult years for a woman to forge a career in the male-dominated network newsroom, Barbara Walters’ blend of grit, charm and patience, let to success at the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and, currently, The View on ABC.

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