On December 14, 2014, Barbara Walters and ABC broadcast The 10 most fascinating People of 2014. It is the 21st year Walters has done the special and the inquisitive 85 year old host was as pleasant and sharp as ever.
This year’s list consisted of some newcomers including Scarlett Johansson and Amal Clooney, with the latter taking home the title of “The Most Fascinating Person of 2014.” It wasn’t just her philanthropic accomplishments that earned her the title, according to Walters, “marrying Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor (George Clooney), puts you on par with Mother Theresa.”
Amal beat out Oprah Winfrey (who has appeared on the list four times), along with Taylor Swift, Neil Patrick Harris and George R.R. Martin. Previous winners include the Clintons, the Obamas, and J.K. Rowling.
In 1961, NBC hired Barbara Walters to work as a researcher and writer for its popular Today show. Her initial assignments were stories slanted toward female viewers. Within a few months, however, she lobbied for a breakthrough assignment to travel with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on a trip to India and Pakistan. The resulting report earned Walters increasing responsibility at the network.
Walters remained on the show for 11 years, during which time she honed her trademark probing-yet-casual interviewing technique. By 1972, she has established herself as a competent journalist, and was chosen to be part of the press corps that accompanied President Nixon on his historic trip to China. In 1975, she won her first Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award for best host in a talk series.
In August 1997, Barbara Walters premiered a mid-morning talk show called The View, for which she is co-executive producer and co-host. Although officially retired, she sometimes guest hosts on The View.
Effective descriptive writing is hard work, requiring careful word choices to inspire the reader’s imagination and emotions. Misguided use of adverbs and adjectives can suck the life out of prose, and here is a partial list of my pet peeves.
Katherine Sharma’s family roots are in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. But after her early childhood in Texas, she has moved around the country and lived in seven other states, from Virginia to Hawaii. She currently resides in California with her husband and three children. She has also traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, and makes regular visits to family in India. After receiving her bachelor’s degree. in economics and her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan, Katherine worked as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor for more than 15 years. She then shifted into management and marketing roles for firms in industries ranging from outdoor recreation to insurance to direct marketing. Although Katherine still works as a marketing consultant, she is now focused on creative writing.
History has a way of repeating itself, and Hollywood follows the same rules. So many actors have played the same roles throughout time, so we wanted to ask, who was the best? Which actor was your favorite? Take our poll below and vote!
The Hollywood Love Shuffle! Pretty faces and outgoing personalities are everywhere in Tinseltown. It’s no wonder so many famous celebrities hook up. However, it can be pretty hard to keep track of who was with whom at any given time. How good is your memory? Think you can pass the Hollywood Dating Quiz? Try it below!
Have you ever wondered what your date was thinking? This romantic comedy exposes the differences between men and women through the unfiltered thoughts, and often contradictory actions, of a new couple who have just begun dating. It’s a typical boy-meets-girl tale, but there’s a twist: you can hear their thoughts. So as they’re spouting pleasantries on screen, you know they’re secretly judging each other — super hard. The show features Jake McDorman (Shameless, Greek) and Analeigh Tipton (Hung, America’s Next Top Model) as the cute couple. One critic suggested, like he meant it to sting, that the pilot was a little too Woody Allen, circa his Manhattan period, right down to the series’ name. “I’m not trying to rip it off,” creator Jeff Lowell said, as the critic ticked off the similarities. “I’m a fan. It’s there, but hopefully not so directly that it seems opportunistic.”
Louis Zamperini passed away at the age of 97 last week, and nobody deserves peace more than him. Sadly, he will not be around to see the story of his life as told through the film adaptation of the Lauren Hillenbrand biography, Unbroken. Director 
He enlisted in the Army before Pearl Harbor and was a bombardier on a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber that crashed into the ocean. He and another survivor drifted on a raft in shark-infested waters for 47 days, only to captured by the Japanese. He was tortured as a prison of war for more than two years. Although he sank into alcoholism after the war, he turned his life around with a religious reawakening at a Billy Graham revival. When he met his war-time tormenters decades later, he hugged them.
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For True Blood fans, it’s hard to believe that Season 7 (which premiered on June 22) is the final neck-biting saga of Sookie, Bill, Eric, Tara, Lafayette, Sam, Jason and baby vamp Jessica. Bon Temps and television will never be the same. Last Saturday night, cast members and more than 200 invited guests gathered to celebrate vampire love with a wrap party at Hollywood’s trendy nightclub Boulevard3. Stars 
Romantic comedies sometimes have a way of taking themselves way too seriously. They often are victims of cliched moments and overused plot lines. It takes a truly wonderful pairing to make any good romantic comedy stand out from the pack.