Barbara Walters is an American broadcast news journalist and New York social fixture. She has hosted shows including The View, 20/20 with co-host Hugh Downs, and ABC Evening News. She is a noted interviewer and confidente of many high powered celebrities and world leaders and has interviewed everyone from Anna Wintour to Michael Jackson to the Shah of Iran.She has also need famously mocked by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live.
