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It’s Thursday night and I’m watching the Barbara Walters top 10 most fascinating people of 2010. She just spent an hour with Oprah, because Oprah’s life more or less commands an hour just to discuss what she is going to do next in her life. I do find Oprah fascinating, not just because of what she has accomplished but primarily what she has done for others.
Next, she has Justin Bieber on as her second most “fascinating” person interview. He seems nice, but not necessarily fascinating to me. I’m not up on 16-year-old singers but I know he is very popular with the younger set and I guess mothers of the younger set. Walters asks him the hard-hitting question about what he was doing in the back seat of a car with a girl. He said he was kissing her. I guess in Walters’ world this is fascinating.
Next up on her list is the cast of the Jersey Shore, I forget all of their names but it doesn’t matter because they are all pretty much interchangeable. They are discussing in great depth (for them) their slang language skills-I’m starting to nod off.
Next on her list is Sandra Bullock. She is certainly a class act and has gone through hell this year and it is fascinating to me that she never removed her ex-husband from the face of the earth. Now she is interviewing singer Jennifer Lopez, who said in ten years she sees her life and career as being bigger. Fascinating indeed-but to who?
Lebron James, the basketball player who left Cleveland to go to Miami amidst a firestorm of upset Cleveland fans is evidently considered fascinating by Barbara Walters and/or her producer. He plays basketball, so do a lot of people (okay, I admit I don’t keep up on all the basketball stuff) .
Kate Middleton is next on Barbara’s list as Prince William’s soon-to-be bride. She isn’t interviewing her in person of course, but is showing clips of her that we have already seen on TV a million times. Since kate hasn’t really ever talked in public yet, it’s hard to say just how fascinating she is.
Now Barbara is moving on to Sarah Palin who is talking about what she reads. “C.S. Lewis for divine inspiration and local Alaskan newspapers because that is where her heart is.” She says that thanks to Katie Couric people don’t think she reads but she does. I’m sure if she read Lewis it was “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” and I would be willing to bet she couldn’t do a book report on it without Cliff Notes. And even then…doubtful.
Betty White is on the fascination list and I must agree. He career has been long, interesting and entertaining. I find her delightful and funny.
General David Petraeus, proposed the war surge which has seemed to work and is according to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, among others , a great leader. He, according to Walters is the most fascinating person of 2010. Finally, someone actually fascinating that is trying to do something for the country instead of himself. Why then is this top General even thrown into the mix or mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Palin or the cast of Jersey Shore? What would really be fascinating is finding out the criteria for who gets on the list. Yeah, I already know. Ratings.
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