Carole Radziwill Bonds With Anderson Cooper
Carole Radziwill — the ABC news producer who found the strength to spit out a bestselling memoir after her friends John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyne Bessette died in a little-known plane crash and her husband, Anthony Radziwill, died of cancer three weeks later — has a new column in Glamour. For her debut, she sits down with beloved anchor-cum-book-peddler Anderson Cooper and talks about wardrobe choices. It's hardly the stuff of Radziwill's hard news past, but she does manage to get Cooper to reveal how business is conducted around CNN:
Q: You went to CNN as an anchor on American Morning in 2001. Was that when your career took off?
Actually, the first six months were difficult. The ratings weren't great. I realized I was in trouble when I got sent to Afghanistan without a camera crew.
Q: Yikes, that's the kiss of death in TV news!
Yes, it was a very bad sign. I called back to my office and Bill Hemmer answered my phone! That's how I learned I'd been replaced on the morning show and reassigned to the weekend desk.
What goes around comes around, Hemmer.
