Barbara Walters, TV News Trailblazer and Icon, Dies at 93

Each December, for more than two decades, Barbara Walters hosted Barbara Walters’ Ten Most Fascinating People of the Year, a breezy album of interviews with newsmakers as defined, of course, by Barbara Walters. Take 1999, for example. Who else but Walters would think King Abdullah II of Jordan, Joe Torre of the Yankees, soap-opera empress Susan Lucci, and a circus ringmaster named Jonhathan Lee Iverson belonged together? Jesse Ventura, another honoree that year, must have represented the ideal guest in Barbara’s Ultimate Green Room: pro-wrestler-turned-governor. If TV adhered to truth-in-packaging rules, the show would have been called Barbara Walters and… Read Full Article