Barbara Walters shopping HBO movie based on her memoir
While Oprah will be busy this year distancing herself from a TV movie based on Kitty Kelley's unauthorized biography, her fellow television icon and celebrity interviewer Barbara Walters will be busy notarizing, saluting, and altogether championing a TV movie about her life based on her own memoir, Audition. The 80-year-old former 20/20 host and part-time referee on The View ended 29 years of Oscar specials this last Oscar season, but the semi-retired newswoman remains keen on asking herself which tree she would prefer to be, as well as telling the “for-the-record” story of her own life. Now she hopes to do so with a film in the vein of previous HBO documentary Teddy: In His Own Words, according to Cinematical (via The New York Post).