The marriage that ended up stirring a lot of controversy is about to end, as Star Jones has filed for divorce from her husband Al Reynolds.
While the wedding itself was a huge gala affair, and generated a lot of buzz and some negative responses, it was more the use of it by Jones to market herself and her role on "The View" at the time that really had people jacked up about it.
Worse, she even marketed the sponsors of her wedding, while never getting off the subject.
Barbara Walters acknowledged that this is what eventually led to ABC (NYSE:DIS) not renewing her contract for "The View" in 2006.
Talking to Entertainment Tonight, Jones said about her decision: "Several years ago I made an error in judgment by inviting the media into the most intimate area of my life. A month ago I filed for divorce.
Barbara Walter's life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she's written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor's book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don't have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. ""I want what she's having"", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!
Posted by: George | May 29, 2008 1:25 AM | Permalink to Comment