Oh, that alien hand of Star Jones is interesting.

@CodePink: Seriously. I am trying to make my hand do that. And my fingers cramp up. Star Jones lost all that weight because her alien hand pulled the fat directly out of her. The alien hand's name is Lipid of Lipidinous Dronus. This is a true story.

Oh please. Babs tried to play nice and say that she and Star are now friendly. I think that Star is looking for any attention now that her Court TV show has been canned.
Also, I used to intern on The View in late 1999 before all the bitterness and hate for Star in public was so widespread. The woman was hated internally already by this time. She would throw fits if bacon wasn't at her dressing room door when she arrived and at one point had an intern lotion her legs for her because I guess she couldn't reach them. She would go out with one of the show producers for dinner and bait gossip mags to have it look like she was going on an actual date. The woman has been a mess for a long time.
That's not to say Babs is completely innocent. During the time I was there she routinely denied ever having plastic surgery done which was laughable because even then her face was pulled back to her ears.

@CodePink: Oh, and now the alien hand picture is GONE. Do you know why?? BECAUSE I AM ONTO HER!!!!!!!!!

@CodePink: I believe you are referring to this business.

Damn, Mac Culkin's gotten old. But he'll have to get a haircut before he starts gunning for the stuff Brimley turns down.

@Richard: Yes. Lipid--Alien Hand.

I liked Star Jones a lot better when she was a fat opinionated lawyer as opposed to a svelte obnoxious D-lister.

Screw the Internets, I gotta get in on some of that Pilatty action Babs is talkin about.

@Richard: I thought that was a picture of Flip Wilson for a second.

@CodePink: Ising "alien hand" just another name for "the stranger" method of self-pleasure (or abuse if you like to catholic)?

KEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!

@valarmorghulis: you sir, are an idiot. how the hell did you contorn "isn't" to "ising" what the hell is that anyway, a mic for you ipod?

Ok, now what Star said wasn't necessary, and I get that. But dude, if someone called me obese (even formerly) like, oh man, you just can't know what would come out of my mouth.

I feel like her comments were fairly mild & tame.

Does Babs say anything about Roy Cohn in her book?

Star who?

"It is a sad day when a d-lister like Star Jones, in the sunset of her 'career,' is reduced to publicly branding herself as a fag-hag, humiliating the innocent corporations who footed the bill for her sham wedding and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of publicity. It speaks to her true character." BW

It's also a sad day when a desperate wannabe like Star Jones, in the sunset of her career, has no idea that she is in the sunset of her career, and has branded her own self as a greedy, batshit-crazy beard.

@SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley:If you were obese then there's nothing wrong with that but they would just be speaking honestly. you have a problem with the honesty? or with people using weight/overwieght status as a pro/con thing? the latter I understand.

As Cartman says, "it's mah bahdy. I do what I wahnt, I eat what I Wahnt".

I watched that Oprah interview through the tiny cracks between my precious little clasped fingers. Baba Wawa's got steel muthafuckin' balls.

For optimum exposure, the only way to settle this is with a Barb, Star, Rosie wrestle-off, low on the oil of course, as two may find it consumable, and the other may use it in place of Ponds cream.

Every time I read anything quoted to Star Jones, I hear Tracy Morgan reading it.

@In Other News...: I always thought Baba Wawa was a man.

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Richard, the Dick Van Patten impersonator thing is hilarious.

In my book Barbara can say whatever the hell she wants. She's a class act (ok, ok, torrid affair notwithstanding) and Star is one crazy bitch. The level to which her eyes now bug out is really scary. She will say anything to remain in the spotlight.

"...and just like that, Star Jones was never heard from again."

@CopyofBlueboy: [www.nbc.com]

Ha ha, Rosie wanted to RIDE THE BUS! Niiiice one, Babs. Stickin' it to Rosie's retarded acting job, eh???
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Oh no she diin't!

Oh yes she did!

Oh no she diin't

Oh yes she did!

Oh no she diin't

Look! I just read the text! She did say it.

@SuperBien:This makes me so sad...and sooo happy at the same time. Those two could out-talent the entire prime-time entertainment roster at ABC right now.

I just love quotes that will obviously come back and bite people in the ass.

@kikimonkey: best thing I've read all day. Really??

@hypocriteoath: There is a difference between honesty and just being crass.

@richardmarxhatesmyhair: To Glenn Close: Girl, you are the whitest woman I have EVAH seen.

@PrincessKashmir: Oops, that was supposed to be for Bizarro. Bizarre.

Barbara Walters also saved her parents' marriage! It's true - she says so in the book.
But that's all I know - my business in the B&N bathroom was finished.

ah,my role models, the pioneers of estro-journalism . The role daughters my daughter has to choose from. I'm beginning to think that whole Women's Suffrage thing was a bad idea. Maybe we were better off when the men spoke for us.

@kikimonkey: Thanks! I love a good "it puts the lotion on its skin" story!

@SuperBien: Great. I started off my week missing Phil Hartman, and now I miss Gilda Radner too.

Would "Pardon me, but your chastity belt seems to be at your ankles" have been more acceptable? Let the old gal have her moment to be viewed as that vixen she imagines herself to be. No one's listening. There should be no survivors to confirm wa wa's ho ho was ever active. Let it go.

@CopyofBlueboy: Gilda was unique, wasn't she? She was taken from us much too soon.

@BunnySoup: As, apparently, was CopyofBlueboy.

@Bell County: Tis sad, hey wait a minute!

Was it Kirkegaard or Barbara Walters who said, "When you label me, you negate me"?

@katieee: Søren Kierkegaard.

I could kiss that old bitch on the mouth for her comments about Star Jones. I just wish she had commie on Big Gay Al....

Babwa is the original mean girl.

Again, hard to choose. Barbara Walters really is a ridiculous old bitch who needs personal adoration space of at least 3 feet around her at all times. I mean, look at who she attacked: Star Jones is an easy target. Barbara is really just an old bully and the fact that she is elderly has allowed everyone to forget how brainless she was in the first place, since she was basically hired for her legs ([abcnews.go.com]) which she calls her "drive to succeed."

@cassandra: make that her "dwive" to succeed.

@lizzybennett: Don't. Give. Them. Any. Ideas.

Look at it this way. They put this post on Gawker instead of mocking it for being on Jezebel.

I don't think either gender has such a death grip on common sense that it could displace the other.

I think Jones is a fool and should just shut up and take everything that happens for a while, since she acted like such a fool.

But Cassandra has a point; Walters went after an easy cartoonish target who's down on her luck and an elderly (nearly-90) statesman who is not in good health. Oddly, both are black. And revealed herself as a little bit of a racist, too -- his marriage was ending (he and his Italian first wife separated in the late '60's) and she still didn't want to marry a U.S. Senator? Yah, sure. Well, he didn't have any money; that might have something to do with it.