Yes ... the one Mark Mullen mentioned in his Facebook post yesterday. >>Today, much will be written about the passing of Gloria Vanderbilt and > her storied life: from the depression-era, tabloid filled custody battle > she endured as a young girl to her romances with celebrities to her > creating her own tremendous success as a fashion icon. > > Far less sexy but certainly more important was the relationship she had > with her surviving son along with the values she imparted. When I started > working with Anderson Cooper at abc news, we didn’t know who his mom was. > He was hired at abc as a “Gen X correspondent”, having worked at Channel > One, the news beamed into US high schools. > > All we knew was that Anderson was a really good guy and seemed > passionately determined to make his own way (he said his “mom” told him not > to ever count on anybody feathering his nest). > > As we came to learn about her (because try keeping a celebrity secret in > NYC), she proved whimsical and gracious with her interactions on our > newscast World News Now where Anderson filled in as my co-anchor and would > go on to replace me when I left abc. In fact, on the sometimes irreverent > overnight newscast, she once came in to sing to Anderson in a feature > segment (while he looked on smiling and mortified like any kid would). > > They would of course go on to embrace their public role together with a > book, interviews and appearances speaking candidly about not only their > successes but also the profound loss that punctuated their lives. > But with their very public profiles, it seemed it was their close, private > bond that was so poignant. >
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 6:37 PM danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Richard de Give wrote: > > > ICYMI, Coop's video tribute. > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=cfbRneB9wcA&fbclid=IwAR0oyPSV6PNnzWpm6m4nt2vmhyfwSXsCfKg-Q9nDmD9XT2yChkB-X-6W168 > > here's hoping WNN can track down the clip > where mom visited Coop on the WNN set... > > (hint, hint) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAGPJw11OoPizr6YTr00%2BN%3DVeDgWk2zOAz3WSGjy9SurHD%3DzjCw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
