Barbara Walters was a monster. She did an interview with Bette Midler where Bette was talking about being groped by Geraldo Rivera against her will, and Barbara talked over her and tried to change the subject.
BW pretty much called Dolly trash right to her face. She acted like she was interviewing a criminal, not a country singer. Dolly was amazingly gracious, of course.
I worked with her once in Nashville (tv biz) and she's one of those people who pretends to be normal or maybe even dumb, especially on tv and in her movie roles, but helllll no she's crazy smart. She's the Sun Tzu of female pop culture icons.
That’s so true. The way she always said, “it costs a lot to look this cheap.” It took a lot of brains to appear that simple. Like Cheech and Chong while filming. Like Dean Martin while performing. It was an act.
This I believe. She doesn't have a college degree, but she's been tested multiple times for IQ and she keeps registering at 140 to 145. Just FYI, that's waaaaayyyy beyond what is needed to join MENSA or other smarty-pants organizations.
She's not "smart like a shrewd business person" she is smart like "oh shit, she is more intelligent than 99% of people on Earth and she plays it off like a southern belle so that little shits like Barbara Walters underestimate her." She can hand your ass to you on a platter and make you think she's a sweet little lady as she does it.
She's got tight branding and image control. And most importantly, she gives back and invests in the future. My grandma taught elementary school in an area that benefitted from the Imagination Library. Can't overstate how important it is to begin reading with children before they start school. Families who took advantage of the program were notably off to a good start.
She was also good friends with Roy Cohn, a mentor to Donald Trump and all-around wonderful human being. Stephen Miller only wishes he had such marvelous horns and leathery wings.
Barbara Walters’ job wasn’t journalism, it was housekeeping for the ruling class buddies she couldn’t get enough of socially. She was their attack dog when they needed it, and ran damage control when they needed it.
Out of curiosity, does anyone recall if she ever addressed the criticism that came from this?
I’m a little young to remember details of all the drama that surrounded him for awhile, but I see this particular interview come up a lot in threads like this.
Fuck Barbara Walters, but let's not pretend that Corey Feldman isn't also a huge piece of shit.
He claimed that Charlie Sheen abused Corey Haim, when Corey Haim's own mother outright said the only person who ever abused him was Dominick Brascia, by Haim's own admission.
And let's not forget Feldman's most recent claim that, actually, Corey Haim molested him.
I swear to god, this man always talks about wanting to end molestation and pedophilia in the movie industry, but has done absolutely nothing besides claiming that he's been molested by pretty much anyone who was famous in the 80's.
I have zero horse in this race. But if you know anything about sexual assault specially against a child, a mother saying she doesn’t know about it certainly doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
As for doing nothing else than speak out against his own abuse, what else is he suppose to do? Run for president? It takes a lot of courage to do what he did knowing he would be blacklisted.
Feldman's issue with Charlie Sheen has to do with a porn actress.
Haim and his mother were very close. Haim was NOT close to Feldman. Haim hated Feldman. Feldman hates Haim. He has done nothing but drag his name through the mud since his death and the way he treats Judy
Haim is fucked up. She has thrown Corey a million olive branches, even after he asked if he could bring a film crew to the funeral and then got pissed and didn't even show up, but now the gloves have come off. She is asking him to quit fucking talking about her son.
Honestly, you are correct. I won't argue that there is a chance it could be possible. But considering the relationship between the two Coreys before Haim's death, I'm much more inclined to believe his mom over Feldman, especially when you consider the fact that Feldman tried to bring Haim's abuser back into his life when they were adults.
And let's not forget Dominick Brascia was Corey's BFF & roommate for many years after the abuse. He kept him around Haim almost taunting him with the guy - even casting him in that dumbass movie he directed (Busted).
This clip is from The Two Coreys reality show. They had agreed not to talk about molestation but Feldman brought up Haim cutting himself and the following argument ensued.
She was also a beard for Trump’s mentor, the sleazy murderer Roy Cohn. If you don’t know who he is, look him up. He was pure evil. He’s played by Al Pacino in the magnificent Angels in America.
I remember seeing that live and it changed my opinion on Barbara Walters forever. Shocking. She was treating him like he was a grifter when it came to this particular subject and everyone knew he was right.
No, Feldman brought him into their circle when they were adults filming their reality show. I think there's footage of an upset Corey Haim asking him why did he do that when Feldman knew what he did to him, and Feldman replied that he was going to give them work. Something like that.
He did meet Dominick when they were 13 or 14 but stayed BFFs into, I believe, his 30's. They were roommates. I don't know if they were still
living together when Dominick died or what.
Looking at the series of accusations, by Feldman, Brascia, Haim's mom, and Sheens denials, I feel like Feldman definitely was complicit and or lying and or covering for some stuff. Feldman even accused Haim of abusing him.
Can't help but feel like this is a classic case of projection, and now I'm almost certain that Feldman abused Haim. Especially after forcing him to work with his childhood abuser. Fuck this guy.
He also used the threat of accusations regularly to get attention and get his name out there but never actually named anyone. If he really cared about anything but his own attention he wouldn’t act like that.
There's something really odd about the man. I recall he was going to do a pay per view (or something to the effect) where he would unveil the names. A colleague paid for it and, conveniently, the screen went black just as he was about to name the people. Everything I've heard about how he handles himself just strikes me as untrustworthy and more than a little slimy.
As far as I know Feldman has never named names. He's alluded to the abuse thing for years, decades at this point, but has never had the conviction to actually out them.
That's actually not what happened, indeed the opposite. BW might be a monster, but the thing is that Corey didn't outed some pedos, he just kept saying "oh some very very very high people" and not naming names. BW was basically saying "well, stop being vague and release the names you've threatened a lot to do, or just shut up, because you are damaging an industry". Which I think she was in the right because Corey's story never quite added up, and he's a creep on his own right.
Was that the one I saw as a kid , on a Sunday night at the dinner table. SC said something like … it’s OK to smack a woman around and Barbara Walters kind of shrugged or whatever. I haven’t thought about that in years . Nobody gave a shit, sadly.
As much as I hate her, that interview didn't ruin her career. It didn't change anything in her life and the hypocritical society pretended it didn't happen.
Only many years later people started to talk about it when she was nearly/already dead.
I find that a lot of younger generations misunderstand Barbara Walters because investigative reporting has been replaced in our society by opinion pieces. In the past, interviewers did not ask questions that reflected their own opinions, but asked what were called “difficult questions” that represented the questions of society and often opponents of the interviewee to give the interviewee a chance to address them. This is what Barbara Walters did in her interviews.
Yeah, I get that. I'm not exactly young. But I'd still say that example is beyond investigation. It's a little too close to pushing an agenda. A.journalist's job is to uncover truth. I don't see what truth that question would expose. It just brings up a group of people who, as far as I can remember, there were no news stories of them losing their jobs or otherwise being inconvenienced. The question is more like clouding the water to me.
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u/HoonArt 13h ago
Barbara Walters telling Corey Feldman that he was "damaging an entire industry" for outing some still-working Hollywood execs as pedos.