Sundown on Sunset: Local Color - Posted February 22, 2008
HBO has picked up Academy-Award nominated doc. A Taxi to the Dark Side, after Discovery chickened out. Barbara Walters will interview Ellen Page, Harrison Ford, Vanessa Williams, and Mylie Cyrus. Pick the two with shows on ABC. Who will be forgotten in the Montage of Dead Stars this year? Joel Stein invites George... [FishBowlLA]

Behar: GOP Candidates "Pussies" For Not Doing "The View" - Posted October 13, 2007
On Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher", "View" host Joy Behar took Republican presidential candidates to task for refusing to appear on ABC's daytime talk show, "The View." "They're all pro-war and they all talk gung-ho about they're going to invade Iraq, but the Republican candidates are a bunch of pussies ...... [FishBowlDC]

Trade Round-Up: Sept. 6. 2007 - Posted September 6, 2007
Shepherd to Join View, Variety Says Variety does some source leaning in today's paper, announcing that Sherri Shepherd is the new cohost on The View, taking the fifth spot on the morning chatfest alongside Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Elizabeth Hasselbeck and newly-installed Whoopi Goldberg. The trade paper cited its sources in confirming... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Sept. 6. 2007 - Posted September 6, 2007
Shepherd to Join View, Variety Says Variety does some source leaning in today's paper, announcing that Sherri Shepherd is the new cohost on The View, taking the fifth spot on the morning chatfest alongside Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Elizabeth Hasselbeck and newly-installed Whoopi Goldberg. The trade paper cited its sources in confirming... [FishBowlLA]

Whoopi To View - Posted July 27, 2007
Mark it down: Whoopi Goldberg will be named the new co-host of The View, FishbowlNY has learned. Sources close to the decision say the announcement could come in a matter of days. The move has been rumored since Rosie's departure in May, while boldfaced names from Paris to Perez have been... [FishBowlNY]

Media Events 06.28.07 - Posted June 28, 2007
THURSDAY 06.28.07 WHAT: Bookstore Grand Opening, Signing WHO: Larry Mantle, of Air Talk WHEN: 3 p.m. -- hurry! WHERE: Flintridge Bookstore and Coffee House WHY: Mantle will lend his familiar, reassuring voice to his reading of This Is Air Talk: 20 Years of Conversation on 89.3 KPCC THURSDAY 06.28.07 WHAT: Book signing and show opening WHO: Robert Stivers WHEN: 6:30... [FishBowlLA]

How Paris Hilton's Double Dealing Cost Her - Posted June 26, 2007
Variety's Michael Learmonth delves into the murky underworld of celebrity interviews, specifically Paris Hilton's unpaid path to Larry King. Looks like mastermind Kathy Hilton, acting on expensive bad advice from Michael Sitrick, sought to start a bidding war between Barbara Walters and anyone, everyone else. Needless to say, the plan backfired. ABC... [FishBowlLA]

Paris Denies NBC Post-Pen Pay-Per-Interview - Posted June 22, 2007
One of the few vaguely interesting media questions remaining in the Paris Hilton's jailhouse saga is who, aside from front-runner Barbara Walters, will land an exclusive interview with post-penitentiary Paris — and, more importantly, what will they pay? The New York Post reported that it's Meredith Vieira, and NBC is paying... [FishBowlNY]

Paris To The View? Don't Rule It Out, Says Barbara Walters - Posted June 14, 2007
Barbara Walters is still milking her impromptu jailhouse phone call from Paris Hilton, and it seems Walters is at least considering Hilton for a guest spot on The View when the heiress gets out of prison. Walters and longtime executive producer Bill Geddie talked about such a scenario on Babs' Sirius radio... [FishBowlNY]

Paris Gives Babs Jailhouse Gift - Posted June 11, 2007
And it's the gift of song ... no, sorry, voice. Oh, hell, let Barbara Walters explain her coup: On Sunday at 3 p.m., Paris Hilton phoned me collect from jail. Prisoners must call collect. The unusual conversation came about because Kathy Hilton, Paris' mother, had phoned me, and while we were talking,... [FishBowlNY]

Jamie Lee Curtis Schools Kathy Hilton - Posted June 11, 2007
Jamie Lee Curtis takes on the heady topic of parenting in her first column for the Huffington Post -- except it's not really about parenting. It's about Paris. While swearing up and down that "I am not throwing stones," she proceeds to hurl 'em at Kathy Hilton, saying Paris's mom "should have... [FishBowlLA]

Lunch at Michael's: Forget Michael Caine — It's Star Jones! - Posted June 6, 2007
Imagine our disappointment when we heard that had we chosen to come by on Monday, we'd have been sipping Bloody Marys at the bar with Claire Danes and Natasha Richardson. Luckily, there were enough faces in today's crowd from filmdom, fashion and, of course, publishing to satisfy our appetite for observing... [FishBowlNY]

Rosie Vlogs About View Exit - Posted May 29, 2007
Love her or loathe her, has there ever been a celebrity more new media savvy than Rosie O'Donnell? After an intellectual showdown with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the View left Barbara Walters to calm the insatiable studio audience down ("There is peace in the kingdom") Rosie put her beat poetry blog-leanings to... [FishBowlNY]

Barbara On Rosie-Elisabeth War: 'There Is Peace In The Kingdom' - Posted May 24, 2007
Barbara Walters gives a bizarre, seemingly unnecessary video statement to ABCNews.com regarding yesterday's heated debate between Rosie and Elisabeth Hasselbeck over the war in Iraq. Wanna see something even more unnecessary? ABCNews.com's follow-up report on the feud entitled "'View' War of Words Prompts Question: What Can Americans Say About the War?" —... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Wesley Clark & A Model Mystery - Posted April 25, 2007
We missed Jane Fonda by a day. Today's lunch crowd was lacking the star power we've come to expect on our weekly visits so while we were disappointed our usual perch at the bar had been usurped by an unidentified exec, we didn't miss much from our less than stellar seat... [FishBowlNY]

Vieira's View @ Matrix: 'Your Vagina Can Open Doors' - Posted April 24, 2007
"This is a celebration of women who change the world and no one can understand why Rupert Murdoch is on the dais," emcee Rosie O'Donnell told the crowd at yesterday's Matrix Awards. (In fact, he was there to introduce Cindy Adams.) "He's a man who makes me take Heprin. I mean... [FishBowlNY]

Partying With The King - Posted April 19, 2007
King and his wife flank the Trumps The short hallway between the "Pool Room" and bar acted as a sort of cosmic, generational media portal last night at the Four Seasons, where a pair of cocktail parties — one celebrating Larry King's 50 years in broadcasting (a.k.a the "old people room"), the... [FishBowlNY]

Is Rudy's Wife Fair Game? - Posted April 3, 2007
The former mayor-turned-presidential candidate made headlines last week — albeit on a slow news day — when he told Barbara Walters, if elected, he'd invite his wife, the former Judith Nathan, to cabinet meetings. Now, though, Rudy wants the media to lay off Judi. "Attack me all you want," Giuliani told WCBS-TV. "There's... [FishBowlNY]

Seventeen's New Atoosa: Ann Shoket - Posted January 3, 2007
It took but three days into the new year for Cathie Black to name Atoosa Rubenstein's replacement at Seventeen. Ladies, gentlemen, meet ... Ann Shoket: Shoket, 34, has been executive editor of CosmoGIRL! since October 2003. She has been with CosmoGIRL! since its launch in 1999 in positions of increasing responsibility, developing... [FishBowlNY]