I’ve never been a celebrity memoir gal. For the most part, I don’t care enough about the “real” stories of these people to plunk down $26.00. Not when I can get the juicy details in Star or the National Enquirer by scanning the headlines while waiting in the check-out line…

There are those who would say Barbara Walters is not a celebrity - she’s a reporter. I say: uh-huh, you keep thinking that. This story in the Book Standard about her ditching her $6 million book contract because she thought the advance was too low made me think whether you believe she’s a celebrity or a journalist that maybe, just maybe, she’s lost some perspective. The basic point of the story can be summed up by the first paragraph:

A $6-million advance apparently isn’t enough for Barbara Walters, high priestess of The View and former 20/20 co-anchor. Walters ditched her book contract with Miramax Books and is looking elsewhere to publish her memoir, the New York Post’s Page Six reports today.

I reiterate my earlier statement: uh-huh.

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