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Barbara Walters and Senator Edward Brooke: The Secret Was Already Out -- Daily Intel --  New York News Blog -- New York Magazine
Barbara Walters and Senator Edward Brooke: The Secret Was Already Out -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine
When you're hyping a high-priced memoir on Oprah , you'd better come up with a deeply personal revelation. So ABC News diva Barbara Walters, flacking her much-anticipated autobiography, Audition , marketed her "secret" love affair with married Republican senator Edward Brooke, of Massachusetts, at the time (back in the seventies) the Senate's only African-American. Unfortunately, the ...
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IAmATVJunkie.com. Life's Rich Electronically-Delivered Pageant — ... And, this post at the New York Magazine Daily Intel blog lets us know that it wasn't even much of a secret at the time it was happening. In fact, it got in the way of Walters doing her job on the Today show at one point. ...

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Yahoo! Buzz Log — ... . In one week, a nation's faith in broadcasters, politicians, country singers, and baseball players had been ... um ... confirmed. The Walters-Brooke affair dated back to the '70s, was dusted off for her autobiography and "Oprah" interview, and, according to New York Magazine, surprised no insiders. The ...

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