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   "legal process"  wrote in   
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   > "R H Draney"  wrote in message   
   > news:kmrtd002qfk@drn.newsguy.com...   
   >> TMC filted:   
   >>>   
   >>>NBC used to use the "Late Night" to take a chance -- on guys like   
   >>>Letterman and Conan. Now with Meyers' appointment, it's clear NBC   
   >>>doesn't want to take a chance.   
   >>>   
   >>>Who should replace Seth Meyers on Weekend Update?   
   >>>   
   >>>What about John Mulaney, the "SNL" writer who's NBC pilot was   
   >>>rejected?   
   >>   
   >> How about Barbara Walters, after she decides she doesn't want to be   
   >> retired   
   >> after all?...r   
   >   
   > She can always ask that question about "if you were a tree, what tree   
   > you would be" to the "girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation   
   > with at a party."   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   People keep bringing this up inferring that Barbara Walters brought the   
   subject up.  Katharine Hepburn brought the tree subject up and all   
   Walters did was ask what kind of tree:   
      
      
   There's the famous Walters trope that people love to mock: "If you were   
   a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"   
      
   She's anxious to set the record straight.   
      
   "I was interviewing Katharine Hepburn, and she said, `Oh, sometimes I   
   think I'm just an old tree,' so I said, `What kind of a tree?'"   
      
      
   http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2010/03/06/barbara_walte   
   rs_what_kind_of_tree_is_she.html   
      
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