
Barbara Walters Calls Rosie a "Marvelous Talent"

Nov. 7 2007, Published 6:35 a.m. ET
At the Museum of the Moving Image event saluting Tom Cruise, TV icon Barbara Walters was surprisingly good-natured about the news that Rosie O'Donnell, who served up a mammoth heaping of controversy last spring when she ditched Babs' daytime chatfest The View following a feud with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, is working on her own show for MSNBC.
"I think it’s wonderful!" the news legend told TV's Extra. "Rosie is a marvelous talent and when she can do her own show she
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will be perfectly happy.”
Now let's try to find out how Elisabeth, who is due to pop out baby #2 this weekend, feels about the news...