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Barbara Walters Brags About Notches On Her Bedpost On Ellen

Barbara Walters' book tour for her memoir Audition is chugging along quite nicely and today it made a stop on Ellen. Babs joked about the number of sex partners she's had — the subject of which has been one of the most talked about features of her book — and told Ellen that the hundreds of names printed inside the front and back of the book is actually a list of all the people she's banged. (It's really a list of all the people she's interviewed in her career.) Ellen then points to her own name and says, "It was gonna be in my book, but alright." Clip above.

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Barbara Walters Has Been Getting Kinda Nutty On Audition Press Tour

Barbara Walters was on Larry King Live last night in support of her just-released memoir Audition (not that the book even needs much hyping; it sold an unprecedented a quarter-million copies in under a week). Perhaps it's the fatigue caused by the press tour, or maybe it's a newfound embrace of silliness now that she's spilled her guts into that memoir, but Babs is starting to act really strange. She pulled a gag last night by painting her fist to look like a face and talked to Larry in a weird voice. We're thinking that maybe this is an inside joke for the 75+ set. Clip above.

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Barbara Walters On Oprah: "Star Jones Was So Obese She Could Barely Walk Onto The View Set"

Barbara Walter's memoir Audition hit shelves today, and she appeared on Oprah to talk about it. Babs has spilled her guts into this book, and it's a true tell-all, since she's telling every fucking thing there is to tell. She went into detail on some of it with O, namely, Star Jones (first she was fat and nice, then she got thin and annoying), Rosie O'Donnell (she has severe emotional problems and would scream at Barbara in fits of rage), her torrid 2-year affair with a married black politician (she never considered herself a mistress), her troubled adopted daughter (who was on drugs and ran away from home), and her mentally-disabled sister (whom she resented for being mentally-disabled). B. Dub said she was actually considering naming the book Sister, because her sister has been such a huge influence on her life. (Could you imagine!? Nobody would ever guess that Sister was an autobiography of a white woman knocking on 80 years old!) Clip above.

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Asami From Audition

Watching Takashi Miike's Audition is like watching a pot of water boil. It's kinda boring and slow at first, but it begins to develop rapidly, until it's out of control and near explosive. Leading lady Asami (played by former Benetton model Eihi Shiina) is a highly disturbing villain. An aspiring actress with a dark past that involves sexual abuse, she falls in love with middle-aged widower Aoyama, whom she met at a mock audition he held to find a new wife. Unfortunately for him, Asami likes to torture the men who wrong her in the slightest. (One of them lives footless in a burlap bag in her apartment, and is only ever fed her vomit.) When she finds pictures of his deceased wife, she loses it, drugs him, and goes psycho on him with a very sharp wire while shrieking, "Kiri kiri kiri kiri kiri kiri!"