Barbara Walters in Talks for HBO Biopic

She met with cable channel last week to discuss documentary a la “Teddy: In His Own Words”

Barbara Walters is in talks with HBO to make a for-the-record movie about her life and career, perhaps as soon as next year.

The 80-year-old talk show host, who on Monday made her first appearance on "The View" since undergoing heart surgery in May, wants to get a film version of her best-selling memoir, "Audition," onto TV.

Walters met late last week with HBO brass at the cable channel's midtown office to discuss a documentary along the lines of "Teddy: In His Own Words," the Teddy Kennedy biography that aired last year shortly after his death.

Read more in the New York Post.
 

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