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Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows (Today and The View), the television news magazine (20/20), former co-anchor of the ABC World News, and current contributor to ABC News.
Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's news magazine 20/20. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News, and continuing as a contributor to the network news division and its flagship program, ABC World News.
In 1996, Walters was ranked #34 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Walters was born in 1929 in Boston, the daughter of Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis "Lou" Walters (born Louis Warmwater). Her parents were both Jewish and descendants of refugees from the former Russian Empire, now Eastern Europe. Walters' paternal grandfather, Abraham Isaac, was from what is now Łódź, Poland, and first immigrated to England, changing his name first to Warmwater and later to Abraham Walters (the original family surname was Waremwasser). Walters' father was born there c. 1894, and moved to the United States with his family in 1900. In 1937, her father opened the New York version of the Latin Quarter; he also worked as a Broadway producer (he produced the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943). He also was the Entertainment Director for the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he imported the "Folies Bergere" stage show from Paris to the resort's main showroom. Walters' brother, Burton, died in 1932 of pneumonia. Walters' elder sister, Jacqueline, was born mentally disabled and died of ovarian cancer in 1985. She has another half sister, Walda Walters Anderson, born to a different mother.[citation needed]
Actors: Fred Armisen (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Charles Barkley (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Chevy Chase (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Snoop Dogg (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Chris Farley (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Ferrell (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Lee Holdridge (composer), Suzanne C. Swindle (miscellaneous crew), Stu Segall (producer), Nora Dunn (actress), Mary Carey (actress), Paul Dixon (editor), Adam Rudder (actor), Mariel Hemingway (actress), Nick Stellate (actor), Alex Hyde-White (actor), Charley Rossman (actor), Gerald W. Abrams (producer), Jürgen Prochnow (actor), Matt Dorff (producer), Delia Fine (producer),
Plot: This biographical docu-drama alternates between two parallel threads in the life of 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv): his formative early years as the repeat winner of the Mr. Olympia body-building championship; and his modern foray into the world of politics, hitting the campaign trail and competing in the frenzied atmosphere that accompanied California's chaotic recall election.
Keywords: actor, arnold-schwarzenegger, based-on-book, bodybuilding, california, campaign, character-name-in-title, competition, governor, gubernatorialActors: Alec Baldwin (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Garth Brooks (actor), Matt Damon (actor), Jim Breuer (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor), Dwayne Johnson (actor), Chris Kattan (actor), Bernie Mac (actor), John McCain (actor), Tim Meadows (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Documentary,Actors: Lawrence Schiller (producer), Ron Silver (actor), Ving Rhames (actor), Barry Levinson (producer), Jeff Kober (actor), Kenya (actress), Nicholas Pryor (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Tom Fontana (producer), Raymond Forchion (actor), Jim Lau (actor), Clyde Kusatsu (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Norman Mailer (writer), Lawrence Schiller (producer),
Plot: Based on the book of the real-life O.J. Simpson criminal trial based on Simpson's lawyers point of view of the long trial. In June 1994, former pro football player-turned-entertainer O.J. Simpson is charged with the murder of his ex-wife Nicole and a friend, named Ron Goldman. When Simpson doubts his lawyer Robert Shapiro's ability to try the case because of Shapiro's doubts of Simpson's innocence, Simpson hires civil rights lawyer Johnny Cochran along with an assortment of lawyers including vetran criminal lawyer F. Lee Bailey, DNA lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and lawyer Gerry Uelman to defend him in which each lawyer argues with the court, and each other, over the case and their ability to try the high-profile case in and out of the courtroom.
Keywords: adaptation-directed-by-original-author, based-on-bookActors: Danny Webb (actor), Mark Strong (actor), Michele Buck (producer), Tara Fitzgerald (actress), Karen Fayerty (miscellaneous crew), John Miles (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Galer (costume designer), Tim Dutton (actor), Danuta Skarszewska (miscellaneous crew), Brian Donovan (producer), Ken Kitson (actor), Les Healey (editor), Dolly Wells (actress), Eva Gray (actress), Hermione Ninnim (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Edgar J. Scherick (producer), Lilyan Chauvin (actress), James Sikking (actor), Ross Greenburg (producer), Malcolm-Jamal Warner (actor), Paul Winfield (actor), George Murdock (actor), George C. Scott (actor), Michael Jai White (actor), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Jimmy Bridges (actor), Clark Gregg (actor), Reg E. Cathey (actor), Uli Edel (director), Stewart Copeland (composer),
Plot: The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly, never focusing for long on anything in particular.
Keywords: 1980s, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, boxer, boxing, champion, character-name-in-title, death-of-mother, father-figureActors: Joe Alaskey (actor), Charles Adler (actor), Joe Alaskey (actor), Joe Alaskey (actor), Joe Alaskey (actor), Joe Alaskey (actor), Paul Julian (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Don Messick (actor), Don Messick (actor), Rob Paulsen (actor), Rob Paulsen (actor),
Plot: Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun. Buster and Babs Bunny turn a water fight into a white-water rafting trip through the dangerous Deep South; Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig share the most impossibly awful car journey imaginable on the way to HappyWorldLand; Fifi's blind date becomes a "skunknophobic" nightmare; and a safari park is turned upside-down by Elmyra's search for "cute little kitties to hug and squeeze".
Keywords: alligator, amusement-park, animal-abuse, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, anxiety, autograph, basset-hound, beach, breaking-the-fourth-wallI'm Mr. Misunderstood
The kid from the hood is when that'll take all the lessons you get from the hood
And spit until you listen
This when you could
Consider one of the niggas not blinded by color
Dark clouds and silver lines are why the skies covered
The word that I utter
You see my name more than ever
That's called a brain storm
Born in Cleveland to a lawyer
And a writer, a boy in the mist of fire, the noise was just the lighter
Charles, see me beat my mothers ass
In front of me
Didn't even matter if she had some company
I grew to be my own man but my dad is under me
Reminded her too much of him and she's spazzin, come at me
Everytime she get mad, she wanna beef
I had an attitude
I'm back up on the streets
To lease
And Mr. Only you because of me
I need to speak to grieve
To reach my peace
Late at night
I'm alive
Dream about my thoughts of yesterday
Scream about my thoughts of yesterday
I wish I could talk to yesterday
And tell my story
I'm ready to tell my story
Call Barbara Walters
I'm ready to tell my story
I'm ready to tell my story
On it for awhile
I kept waitin for a way to escape my child molestation
But I ain't a victim no
I'm a living spokesperson for someone who learn to live and cope with
The old shit, I've been exposed to
Turn to blunts
Get high and won't return for months
The weed led to E
E's Ecstacy
Felt like I lost my drive
My speed was left on E
So I turned to speed
Meth & C
Okay E
So please don't okay me
Keep it real
Cause high, I can see thru the fate
Had a broken nose blood wood and bleed from my face
I need to escape
What a needle's a diesel will leave from this place
Sobered up to see my dreams were true
That's why I believe this is fake
Can't erase what I put myself thru
So let me help you
Late at night
I'm alive
Dream about my thoughts of yesterday
Scream about my thoughts of yesterday
I wish I could talk to yesterday
And tell my story
I'm ready to tell my story
Call Barbara Walters
I'm ready to tell my story
I'm ready to tell my story
H.O. was like my nigga and my father
Right there for me when these niggas didn't bother
Jackin off to Lacey when these bitches didn't holler
Went rite back to her when all these women didn't swallow
Girls Wanna diss me
Hoes say they miss me
Knowin that I could be goin in the history for I'll-flowin
It don't even make sense to me
The cameras, the press, no it don't mean shit to me
Fifty said Charles cop a?
I said No
Cause homie this is not a game
I'm a lost traveler
But the best bar battler
Charles bar for bar Attica
I had enough of the music that doenst arrest
Yes with the music I am fuckin obsessed
Blessed
Foolish to fuck with the vets
Said, but tell me who can really fuck with the best
And the best got next
Late at night
I'm alive
Dream about my thoughts of yesterday
Scream about my thoughts of yesterday
I wish I could talk to yesterday
And tell my story
I'm ready to tell my story
Call Barbara Walters
I'm ready to tell my story