The View Meets The NY Times, Talks Cruise, Coulter & Cantone
LatestLast night, former Gawker editor Choire Sicha attended a panel with the women of the View sponsored by the NY Times. Joy Behar was there! Ann Coulter was mentioned! After the jump, his story.
Today, The View brings us Tom Cruise; on Monday comes the queen of foaming scandal, the one and only Ann Coulter. (Joy Behar says she’s a “bitch”! Whoopi Goldberg says she’s gonna beat her up!)
What a daring weekend sandwich. First let us deal with the Cruise. So last night, The View ladies were on stage in the New York Times auditorium, just rappin’ with Times TV reporter Jacques Steinberg, who couldn’t have been happier to see them. (Literally, he was all, “Put the rumors to rest! They really do like each other!” Um, what do you know, you saw them backstage for eight minutes?) There was an audience of like 795 middle-aged women, 3 unhappy straight guys, and 2 thrilled gay guys.
Anyway, yes, because there is no stopping the promotions for the tepid Valkyrie, because $63 million is NOT ENOUGH for Cruise-Wagner productions, they have taped a show with Tom Cruise to air today… now in fact (if you are on the East Coast). And so Barbara Walters apparently comes at him all sneaky with the Barbara-fu and they bring up the death of poor Jett Travolta, because obviously Tom Cruise and John Travolta are besties because they are in the same sorority.
So The View-ettes were super-teasy about it because they are all thinking, oh let us please still have good ratings now that the election is over, but! Apparently Barbara asks Tom Cruise about how in his religion — and she calls it a religion, not Scientology — they’re not supposed to take pills or see doctors and that is why everyone on the Internet is convinced that Xenu killed Jett Travolta.
And Tom Cruise says, she said, “We do go to doctors and we do have medication.” And apparently he gets all weepy! Oh God! “He doesn’t say anything — it’s not what he says,” said Whoopi Goldberg. And they were all like, like, “yikes!”