GIFFORD:
But it's
October 28th
. We are on our way to the end of the year.
Newscast:
Hoda
and
Kathie Lee
discuss current events
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, co-host:
But first there's got a little thing called the
World Series
that's going to take place.
HODA KOTB, co-host:
OK. This is a
big deal
.
GIFFORD:
It is.
KOTB:
It's supposed to -- let's hope it gets played tonight, because it's kind of icky and raining. But they say they're probably going to play it.
GIFFORD:
They say -- maybe going to be out by then.
KOTB:
And there are people very, very desperate for tickets.
GIFFORD:
So desperate, in fact, that they're willing to offer up pretty much anything in exchange.
KOTB:
Anything, according to the paper.
GIFFORD:
Anything.
KOTB:
OK, the paper says that there's this woman, a
Philadelphia
fan, married, in her mid-40s, 43 years old.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
She put an ad out in
Craigslist
.
GIFFORD:
Mm-hmm.
KOTB:
And in the ad she said...
GIFFORD:
She describes herself as a die-hard
Phillies
fan.
KOTB:
Where is it? Yeah.
GIFFORD:
Gorgeous, tall, buxom blond.
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
And then, "Price is negotiable. I'm the creative type."
KOTB:
"Maybe we can help each other."
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
So a
police officer
was tooling around online and saw this and said, `
Uh-oh
, may be an issue.' Went online, met her.
GIFFORD:
Right.
KOTB:
She -- he said he had one ticket and she said, `I need two.' And he said, `My brother has one.' And then she said, `Maybe I can make,' according to the police, `maybe I can make you both happy.'
GIFFORD:
A
package deal
.
KOTB:
And then she got in trouble.
GIFFORD:
Ooh.
KOTB:
She got arrested.
GIFFORD:
You know what,
Craigslist
has lots -- awful lot of people get in trouble on
Craigslist
, right?
KOTB:
That's trouble. Now -- yes, they do. Now, this woman's attorney says this is baloney, this -- she was not trying to do that. That's -- she's a -- she's a...
GIFFORD:
The guy's an undercover cop. He knows what he's looking for, right?
KOTB:
Yes. Well, they say she's a rabid fan who just had basic
Phillies
...
GIFFORD:
She's got rabies, too? Don't...
KOTB:
Stop it!
GIFFORD:
Sorry. Just kidding.
KOTB:
Well, I have to tell you about this thing I went to last night.
GIFFORD:
Yes, you're a busy girl.
KOTB:
I was busy. OK, so last night they're -- they do a terrific event for
Avon
.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
And
Avon
raises a lot -- a lot of money for
breast cancer
and also for
domestic violence
.
GIFFORD:
Mm-hmm.
KOTB:
It was a great crowd out there. Forget me.
GIFFORD:
It's such a woman's company, too,
Avon
.
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
I love it.
KOTB:
Look who's on -- look, remember?
GIFFORD:
Who's that?
KOTB:
From "Precious."
GIFFORD:
Oh, is that
Paula
?
KOTB:
Yes, that's
Paula
.
GIFFORD:
Paula Patton
, who's married to
Robin Thicke
.
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
She's expecting their first baby.
KOTB:
Suze Orman.
GIFFORD:
She is gorgeous.
KOTB:
Adorable.
Suze Orman
was there.
GIFFORD:
So sweet.
KOTB:
The woman on the right, her name's
Sapphire
. She wrote "Precious."
GIFFORD:
Oh.
KOTB:
And that's
Andrea Jung
, she's the big CEO of
Avon
. But they had a lot of...
GIFFORD:
It's a fabulous company.
KOTB:
Hold on.
GIFFORD:
Remember, `
Ding-dong
,
Avon calling
.'
KOTB:
Yes. They had some other A-listers, it was in the paper today.
GIFFORD:
That was before you were born, I think, the ding-dong thing. But...
KOTB:
That's --
Fergie
was there,
Courteney Cox
.
GIFFORD:
And Courteney Cox.
KOTB:
And
Reese Witherspoon
was the -- was the...
GIFFORD:
Was the chair.
KOTB:
...chair. Yeah, she was the chair.
GIFFORD:
Or honorary...
KOTB:
It was great.
GIFFORD:
Yeah. Good for them. Good.
KOTB:
It was a good event. Raised a lot of money, $2 million last night.
GIFFORD:
See, living -- if I lived in
New York
, I would be out so much more.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
But it's hard to come in in the morning, then go home and then come back.
KOTB:
No, it's...
GIFFORD:
Plus, my daughter is, you know.
KOTB:
How is she doing?
GIFFORD:
She says, `
Mommy
, why did you tell the whole world that I have
swine flu
?' I said, `I just said you have a little bit of it, honey.' Just...
KOTB:
A little case. Slight case, she said.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
Is she feeling better?
GIFFORD:
She -- no, she's -- it's really...
KOTB:
Is it bad?
GIFFORD:
You only feel good when your, you know, your
Motrin
or whatever you're on kicks in. Other than that, it's -- and you know what's the sad part, too, these days, school is so hard...
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
...that you're sick as a dog and you get sicker just thinking about what you're missing at school and how hard it's going to be to make it up, so.
KOTB:
Did they bring her homework home?
GIFFORD:
So the minute she feels better she goes and tries to do her homework and...
KOTB:
That's a lot.
GIFFORD:
I wish -- yeah.
KOTB:
That's a lot.
GIFFORD:
So today's matinee Wednesday. We're supposed to go see "
Finian
's_Rainbow" with our dear friend
Cheyenne Jackson
, who's just brilliant.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And I'm just waiting to hear how she's doing.
KOTB:
You're not -- how she's doing.
GIFFORD:
So you hold up -- you and
Hoda
-- Sonny hold the fort for me.
KOTB:
What's her name, mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
But I hear it's fantastic.
KOTB:
OK. I'm
looking forward
to seeing it.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
Also, there's a new book out and it's a -- it's a juicy one, I think.
Andre Agassi
...
GIFFORD:
Wow.
KOTB:
...has written a book, OK? It is called "
Open
:
An Autobiography
." And I thought there were some really revealing things in there that we didn't know about
Andre Agassi
.
GIFFORD:
You know, everybody talked about that first year when he was married to
Brooke Shields
...
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
...about how his game went, you know, pretty much down the toi-toi.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And they were blaming a lot of it on, you know,
Brooke
and the relationship and now he's a married man and all of that. Well, apparently there was something far more insidious going on.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
Who knew that he hated the game of tennis so much because he had a very, very ambitious, overbearing father, according to him...
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
...who just made tennis a job for him from the time he was a small child.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And apparently he got into
crystal meth
.
KOTB:
She...
GIFFORD:
He speaks very openly about it.
KOTB:
Listen to this quote. This was -- I thought it was telling. He talks about after doing
crystal meth
, "I don't sleep for two days. Playing weeks later, I struggle. Afterwards, reporters ask if I'm OK. They're actually concerned.
Brooke
is remarkably unconcerned. Her oblivion" -- this is interesting -- "is partly due to the wedding planning, but also her rigorous premarital training regimen. For motivation, she tapes a photo on the refrigerator door. `It is a photo of the perfect woman,' she says. The perfect woman with the perfect legs, the legs
Brooke
wants. It is a photo of
Steffi Graf
." And this came from
People magazine
.
GIFFORD:
Oh. Oh.
KOTB:
It's their sort of exclusive. But isn't that...
GIFFORD:
Well, you know, the good news is that
Brooke
went on to marry
Chris Henchy
and she's very happy with two
beautiful girls
.
KOTB:
And he's very happy...
GIFFORD:
And he's very happy with
Steff
. Apparently he had tried to get a relationship going with her early on, it didn't work out, and now -- and he writes very openly, too, about the fact that -- I never knew this -- he wore a hairpiece.
KOTB:
I didn't know, either.
GIFFORD:
He started going bald very, very early. Men, this should make you feel a lot better.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
He was very insecure about it, because people would talk about his hair and stuff. That was a hairpiece.
KOTB:
Well, because that was such his signature.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
But he was -- he was balding on the top.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
And so that was -- some of it was his long hair. So he had extensions and stuff. And he said he had to -- and
Brooke
told him shave it off.
GIFFORD:
Shave it off.
KOTB:
Get rid of it.
GIFFORD:
He's a great looking guy, so.
KOTB:
He is.
GIFFORD:
He does an awful lot for kids and charity and stuff like that, he and his wife.
KOTB:
He's such a kind -- yeah, sweet guy.
GIFFORD:
He's got like an old soul in there, you know?
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
With a great body.
KOTB:
He's hot, too.
GIFFORD:
Yes, he is.
KOTB:
Which is very important.
GIFFORD:
OK, so we got rid of the
Phillies
fan. Let's see.
KOTB:
Well, a lot of people were out last night around the country, especially in
LA.
It was the big premiere for "
This Is It
."
GIFFORD:
Right.
KOTB:
The
Michael Jackson
film. Lots of people came out in cities all around the world. The big premiere in the
United States
was in
LA.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
And...
GIFFORD:
I guess quite a few of the
Jackson brothers
were there.
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
And I don't know, it's only supposed to be around for two weeks, but I think with this kind of reaction it's -- it'll -- they'll extend it. They'll have to.
KOTB:
What are the reviews? Have you read anything?
GIFFORD:
Well, some people said there are no surprises in it.
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
But then
Elizabeth Taylor
, who adored
Michael
...
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
...blogged, I think, or tweeted how many times?
KOTB:
Tweeted.
GIFFORD:
Nineteen times. This is a woman who's home just having
heart surgery
,
God bless
her. I -- you know what, I love her fortitude. They have left her for dead in the press probably 20 times.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
And she's going to outlive us all.
KOTB:
Yes, she is.
GIFFORD:
Bless you,
Elizabeth Taylor
.
KOTB:
But she's tweeting him.
GIFFORD:
Anyway, she's tweeting saying this is the most brilliant thing in the world.
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
It shows
Michael
at his peak, at -- all of his creative juices are, you know, and his genius now will be preserved for all time, and go see it again and then again and again and again.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
So -- yeah.
KOTB:
I think it -- I want to see it. Do you want to see it?
GIFFORD:
I do want to see it.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
I'm just not -- I'm not one of those people that will stand and wait for pretty much anything.
KOTB:
Yeah. Right.
GIFFORD:
You know, once I decided it was
Frank Gifford
for me, boy.
KOTB:
That was it?
GIFFORD:
That's it.
KOTB:
You reeled him in, didn't you?
GIFFORD:
That's it. Reel him in.
KOTB:
You had him.
GIFFORD:
You know what's a funny story about that?
KOTB:
What? What?
GIFFORD:
Years ago he had just started seeing
Diane Sawyer
a little bit.
KOTB:
Uh-huh.
GIFFORD:
And he asked her out for the weekend coming up and
Diane
said, `No, I'm going off to
Connecticut
to study' -- she was going to have a retreat and study the poetry of not
Edna Vincent Millay
, but somebody like that.
KOTB:
Somebody like that.
GIFFORD:
Mm-hmm.
St. Vincent
Millay
. Anyway, she says she came home that weekend, and she said it's as if I had found him at the grocery store and I had him in the checkout stand and walking out by the time that she got back.
KOTB:
She got back?
GIFFORD:
That's how fast I closed the deal.
KOTB:
You grabbed him?
GIFFORD:
It didn't seem that way to me.
KOTB:
Did you know that he was seeing her?
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
You did?
GIFFORD:
It was just a -- they had just started seeing each other. And that worked out well, too. She's very happy with
Mike Nichols
, who's lots richer, a lot richer than
Frank Gifford
. So she did all right for herself. But isn't that funny?
KOTB:
I love that story.
GIFFORD:
Yeah. So there's lots more going on.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
Hoda
, you know the two guys we talked about yesterday?
KOTB:
Who?
GIFFORD:
The pilots.
KOTB:
Oh, yeah, the
Northwest
pilots.
GIFFORD:
And we said what were -- what was on their
laptop computers
and everything? Apparently we're never going to find out, because they weren't interested and they let the guys go. They have...
KOTB:
They fired them.
GIFFORD:
They took away their licenses.
KOTB:
They took away their licenses, right.
GIFFORD:
Which I guess within a year -- it means they can't fly for a year.
Delta
's the
parent corporation
. And they can, after a year, apply for...
KOTB:
Can I just ask? Why would they not be interested in what they were doing on their computers? Because it seems to me if you're busy for an hour and
20 minutes
doing something that's so distracting...
GIFFORD:
Ignoring -- yes.
KOTB:
...that you don't hear radio calls and dinging on the panel and all the different ways they tried to get your attention...
GIFFORD:
Yeah. yeah.
KOTB:
...I'd be curious what they were doing.
GIFFORD:
I don't think this story is complete. I think there's a...
KOTB:
You do?
GIFFORD:
I think there's something else going on there.
KOTB:
There's something else. We need to know where everyone was.
GIFFORD:
And I'm not basically one of those people that looks for, you know, looks for trouble.
KOTB:
No.
GIFFORD:
It just -- there's just something wrong here...
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
...that is not explained yet for people such as myself.
KOTB:
OK, there's some interesting video of this -- of a tiny boy, he's only five. He's Romanian.
GIFFORD:
I can't wait to see this.
KOTB:
And he is an
Internet
weight lifting
star.
GIFFORD:
Oh, look at this kid. Look at that. Come on, that's plastic.
KOTB:
Is it?
GIFFORD:
It's got to be plastic.
KOTB:
OK, first of all, he should not -- oh! Oh, no! No.
GIFFORD:
He's not doing that properly, is he?
KOTB:
Anyway, he is in the
Guinness Book of World Records
...
GIFFORD:
No, he's going to hurt himself.
KOTB:
...for completing the fastest ever...
GIFFORD:
He looks like he's got
Andre Agassi
's body and he's five years old!
KOTB:
Oh, oh, look at that! Look at him!
GIFFORD:
Look at this.
KOTB:
OK. Oh, no.
GIFFORD:
Oh, stop it!
KOTB:
No. No, no, that's not good!
GIFFORD:
No, it's really good.
KOTB:
Wait, go back.
GIFFORD:
It's just that it's freaky.
KOTB:
No, that was the scariest one with the...
GIFFORD:
I wonder what -- if
Andre Agassi
feels the same way about...
KOTB:
Look.
GIFFORD:
Because that's about the age he was when his father had him out on the
tennis court
.
KOTB:
You know what, I think that...
GIFFORD:
Unless the kid loves it, loves it, loves it.
KOTB:
What do you think?
GIFFORD:
Then that's a different thing.
KOTB:
But even if he loved
weight lifting
like that, would you want your five-year-old lifting all that weight?
GIFFORD:
No, I wouldn't.
KOTB:
Come on, it just doesn't seem...
GIFFORD:
Especially not -- that doesn't look like...
KOTB:
No, that...
GIFFORD:
Even that. Unh-unh.
KOTB:
No. Let's go to the part we don't like, here it comes, the one where he's doing the push-up. That one.
GIFFORD:
Look at that.
KOTB:
Ooh, ooh!
GIFFORD:
You know,
Hoda
, I do 20 of those right before the show every morning.
KOTB:
I'm sure you do.
GIFFORD:
Just to get, you know. There's a book I want to share with you.
KOTB:
Yes, OK.
GIFFORD:
We're coming to the end of October, which is obviously
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
But a friend of mine sent me this book.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And it's absolutely -- if you've -- it's called, "
Nana
, What's
Cancer
?"
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And the
American Cancer Society
put -- is -- at least it's got the seal of approval right there. It's -- a grandmother wrote the book with her granddaughter. She's the only remaining grandparent left. The other -- this child,
Tess
, has lost all three of her other grandparents to cancer.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm. Hm.
GIFFORD:
And one day as they were having tea, she said, `
Nana
, what exactly is cancer?'
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And from their discussions came this very healthy dialogue and this very healing dialogue...
KOTB:
Hm.
GIFFORD:
...for this
young girl
who's -- you know, for -- families get cancer.
KOTB:
Right, right.
GIFFORD:
You know, when you did, your whole family was around.
KOTB:
Yeah. Sure.
GIFFORD:
And, you know, you all suffer. So it's a lovely, lovely book for families that are going through it to read with your children to perhaps get some insight and some healing for you.
KOTB:
That's interesting. Because that is a hard...
GIFFORD:
Because we don't talk about the children unless they have cancer.
KOTB:
No. Right.
GIFFORD:
But what about the children whose parents have it...
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
...and would need a little help? So that's available, I'm sure,
Amazon
, anywhere else.
KOTB:
OK.
GIFFORD:
But thank you for sending the book,
Pete
.
KOTB:
Excellent.
GIFFORD:
It's a beautiful little book.
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
Oh, look at who's all snuggly wuggly over there.
KOTB:
Hi
,
Miss Sara
. Oh, in pink?
SARA HAINES reporting:
Check it out.
KOTB:
Hello.
HAINES:
If you're -- if you're not much of a reader, we've got the
limited edition
push-up
Snuggie
. This is actually a great cause, it's -- the benefits of this are -- go to the
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
. They've made a donation of over $50,000. It's 14.99.
KOTB:
Where do you get it?
HAINES:
Available at retailers nationwide.
KOTB:
Retailers nationwide. I like that.
GIFFORD:
You know what, I got a -- we laughed so much about the
Snuggie
when it first came in, but since
Cass
has been sick, she's in that thing.
KOTB:
She's in it?
GIFFORD:
Finally I said yesterday, `Where's your
Snuggie
?' She goes, `It's being washed.' Everybody's so afraid it's just full of flu, you know, it's being washed. But they're very comforting.
KOTB:
They're cozy. It's cozy, right,
Sara
?
HAINES:
Well, it was smart to do this, because we all wrap in blankets, and now they just gave you the arm holes.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
It's really great. OK,
Miss Sara Sage
, thank you, darling.
KOTB:
All right. Up next, we're going to find out why men don't listen.
GIFFORD:
Straight talk
from a guy, right after these messages.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
Straight talk
.
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