[guests and family] Gloria Vanderbilt
danny burstein
Yashar Ali
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2m2 minutes ago
Gloria Vanderbilt has died at 95 pic.twitter.com/rAmBApidcG
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Richard de Give
danny burstein
> ICYMI, Coop's video tribute.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=cfbRneB9wcA&fbclid=IwAR0oyPSV6PNnzWpm6m4nt2vmhyfwSXsCfKg-Q9nDmD9XT2yChkB-X-6W168
where mom visited Coop on the WNN set...
(hint, hint)
Richard de Give
>>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.