Barbara Walters, the pioneering news broadcaster who became a force in a male-dominated industry and whose relentless journalism inspired generations of women, has died at the age of 93.
“Barbara Walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones. She lived her life with no regrets,” a rep for Walters said in a statement to Rolling Stone on Friday. “She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists, but for all women.”
Walter’s career spanned five decades, during which she won 12 Emmy awards, and whose television interviews with...
“Barbara Walters passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones. She lived her life with no regrets,” a rep for Walters said in a statement to Rolling Stone on Friday. “She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists, but for all women.”
Walter’s career spanned five decades, during which she won 12 Emmy awards, and whose television interviews with...
- 12/31/2022
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
This story originally appeared in the May 19th, 1988 issue.
Jonathan Demme is taking questions from a couple hundred film buffs in a cramped downtown-Manhattan auditorium. He’s rummaged up a funky-but-chic coat and tie for this occasion, the first evening of the Global Village Documentary Festival. The audience has just seen his 1987 videotape piece Haiti Dreams of Democracy. One fellow naively asks where the earnings will go. “We’re a long way from profits on it,” says Demme carefully. Then he flashes a kooky sideways grin and adds, “We sold it in Iceland for $632 recently.
Jonathan Demme is taking questions from a couple hundred film buffs in a cramped downtown-Manhattan auditorium. He’s rummaged up a funky-but-chic coat and tie for this occasion, the first evening of the Global Village Documentary Festival. The audience has just seen his 1987 videotape piece Haiti Dreams of Democracy. One fellow naively asks where the earnings will go. “We’re a long way from profits on it,” says Demme carefully. Then he flashes a kooky sideways grin and adds, “We sold it in Iceland for $632 recently.
- 5/19/1988
- by Fred Schruers
- Rollingstone.com
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