Baba WawaBarbara Walters was often teased about her speech impediment. "When my daughter was much younger," she once recalled, "I walked into her room while she was watching 'Saturday Night Live'. Gilda Radner was doing the Baba Wawa skit. I said, 'Isn't that awful!'" Her daughter's response? "She said, 'Oh, Mother! Lighten up!'"
(Walters did. "I thought, 'What am I so serious about?' In a funny way, it's a compliment. I still don't like it, but, I mean, you could kind of see it. The 'Baba'...'")
["I was getting a big award one day," Walters recalled of another occasion, "and I heard my daugher on the phone saying, 'My mommy can't drive. My mommy burns the meat loaf. The only thing my mommy can do is television.'"]
Walters, Barbara (1931- ) American television newscaster and reporter [noted for her pioneering role as the first woman in history to anchor a nightly network news program and for such
books as
How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything]
[Sources: Esquire, Jan 02 2002, p. 82]More Barbara Walters anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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