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Enter the View crew, a band of women you'd never mistake for a family, except for the ersatz ones we encounter at work; the signature opening Hot Topics segment could be a coffee-break bull session in a white-collar office. The show defies the received wisdom that female daytime-TV viewers are interested only in innocuous chat or in Springer-style scandal shows. "You may say the show's not that smart," says co-executive producer Bill Geddie. "But for daytime, we are absolutely the Library of Congress...
Well, let's say the corner newsstand. The women's good-natured, rowdy jousting in the opening and closing round-table segments makes the show a distinctive treat. But in between is fairly typical daytime-talk fare. The celebrity interviews, which make Walters' pre-Oscars weepfests look cerebral, are generous to a fault. (And how. Vieira once gave Wesley Snipes a lap dance--"after he requested it!" she protests.) There are numerous fashion features--Jones has often shilled her line of wigs--and for every contrarian service piece on "swimsuits for real women" there's a runway show of boobulous...
...adds that Strawberry Hill's old Italian families tend to forget the era when they were not the most numerous segment of the population. A 1903 map in her home shows most of the neighborhood's residents had Irish names, Chamberlain says...
Environment A huge segment of protesters: Earth First, American Lands Alliance and more...
...given day," says Lim, "I will send out his latest syndicated column, talk to a producer of Rivera Live about a segment he will appear on that night and schedule him for a speaking engagement either on or off campus...