VIEW, THE {HANK WILLIAMS, JR.; ANGELA BASSETT; SAMUEL L. JACKSON; BERNADETTE PETERS} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of daytime talk shows hosted by a multi-generational group of women, moderated by reporter Barbara Walters and including actress Whoopi Goldberg, TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck, comedian Sherri Shepherd, and comedian Joy Behar. In this edition, the women discuss Walters' attendance at Paul McCartney's "discreet" wedding to third wife Nancy Shevell, a relative of Walters; Cher's enthusiastic support of son Chaz Bono on "Dancing With the Stars," and the show's theme of acceptance; and advice for parents for National Coming-Out Week.
Country musician Hank Williams Jr. then joins the panel to discuss his recent comments on "Fox & Friends" in which he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, prompting ESPN to remove his "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" from the Monday Night Football show. Williams defends the comment as a valid "analogy," suggesting that viewers should now boycott "Fox & Friends" as well as Disney Company subsidiaries, and adds that he has released a new song about the controversy, "Keep the Change."
Next, actors Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett take the stage to discuss their Broadway play, "The Mountaintop," which fictionalizes the final night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, after his "I've been to the mountaintop" speech. Topics discussed include: portraying the revered King as a "fallible human being"; whether the King family has seen or responded to the show; King's personal doubts at the end of his life, paralleled with Obama's current issues; Jackson's experiences with the real King, including as an usher at his funeral; and his role as team leader Nick Fury in "The Avengers" (2012).
Finally, actress Bernadette Peters takes the stage to discuss her role in "Follies," her fifteenth Broadway show, touching upon such topics as its themes of getting over one's first love, changing her name from "Lazzara" to "Peters," and her early television roles as a child actor. Peters also sings part of "In Buddy's Eyes" from "Follies." Includes commercials and promos.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: October 11, 2011 11:00 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:08
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 110947
- GENRE: Talk/Interview
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - News/Talk; Talk/Interview; Actors
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1997-
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CREDITS
- Bill Geddie … Executive Producer
- Barbara Walters … Executive Producer
- Patrick Ignozzi … Senior Producer
- Alexandra Cohen … Supervising Producer
- Donald Berman … Producer
- Jennifer Brookman … Producer
- Dana Fisher … Producer
- Audrey Jones … Producer
- Jason Komblatt … Producer
- Jamie Kotkin-Hammer … Producer
- Summur Shalkh … Producer
- Sue Solomon … Producer
- Dustin Greenberg … Associate Producer
- Rudy Robles … Associate Producer
- Victoria Rossi … Associate Producer
- Natalie Bubnis … Associate Producer
- Mark Gentile … Director
- Christian McKiernan … Writer
- Andrew Smith … Writer
- Edd Kalehoff … Theme Music by
- Whoopi Goldberg … Host
- Barbara Walters … Host
- Joy Behar … Host
- Sherri Shepherd … Host
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck … Host
- Hank Williams Jr. … Guest
- Angela Bassett … Guest
- Samuel L. Jackson … Guest
- Bernadette Peters … Guest
- Chaz Bono (see also: Chastity Bono)
- Cher
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Paul McCartney
- Barack Obama
- Nancy Shevell