E-mail a friendMay 16, 2008
Groundbreaking broadcast journalist Barbara Walters reflects on the chapter in her new memoir, Audition, that was the hardest to write. Actor-playwright Daniel Beaty talks about his one-man play Emergency and also performs.
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters
Broadcast journalist talks about her career highlights. (2:08)
Full Interview. (12:55)
Barbara Walters' career is marked by choices that helped break through the male bastion in U.S. network news. She was the first official female co-host of NBC's Today and, at ABC, the first woman ever to co-anchor a network news program. The ten-time Emmy winner rose from writing for local stations to conducting headline-making interviews and hosting top-rated TV specials. Walters is creator, co-host and co-exec producer of ABC's The View and author of a revealing memoir, Audition, which covers her five decades in television news.
Daniel Beaty
Daniel Beaty
Actor-playwright explains how he keeps his focus for a 43-character one-man show. (2:35)
Full Interview. (10:38)
An award-winning playwright, actor, singer and composer, Daniel Beaty has performed around the world, including at the White House, the Apollo and The Kennedy Center. His one-man play, Emergency, has been reviewed as a "brilliant, spellbinding performance." Beatty began writing and giving inspirational speeches in third grade and, by sixth grade, was speaking all over the U.S. He overcame a troubled childhood in Dayton, OH to graduate from Yale and earn his master's from the American Conservatory Theatre.