When I was a kid, I never missed one of Barbara Walters celebrity specials. Who would she be visiting this time? Elizabeth Taylor? Katherine Hepburn? John Wayne? Bette Davis? And maybe one day, maybe, she'd interview ME and ask, "What kind of a tree are you?"
Well, obviously, Babs hasn't gotten around to me yet. But over the years I've seen her interview celebs ranging from Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball and James Stewart to Tom Cruise, Diana Ross and Cher to Streisand, Bette Midler and Audrey Hepburn. Not to mention Oprah, Arnold, Jane Fonda, Eddie Murphy, Farrah Fawcett, Johnny Carson, Richard Pryor, Lauren Bacall, Elton John, Shirley MacLaine, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Marlo and Phil. The list, literally, goes on and on and on.
Most of those celebrities have a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and in a ceremony later today, Barbara Walters will join them with a star of her very own. Hers will be located across from the Kodak Theatre and she and whoever is left on "The View" will join her since they are all in town for Friday's Daytime Emmys. Her star is so well-deserved for those celebrity specials alone, which used to come on FOUR times a year but now are limited to Oscar night and a year-end 10 Most Fascinating People thing.
I gotta say, it's a little sad to see Walters all over this Paris Hilton thing even if she scored the exclusive jailhouse telephone interview with the celebutante. I mean, from Hepburn to Hilton? C'mon!
For the record, Katherine Hepburn said she'd be an oak tree, "strong and pretty."
What kind of a tree would Paris be?