Re: Avery Haines

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

Stephen Pickford wrote:

> Quoting from Don Fitzpatrick's Shoptalk (www.tvspy.com/shoptalk.htm),
> January 19th/2000 ... <snip>
 
Haines made some self deprecating
> remarks about being the network's stutterer news reader -- then expanded
> the remarks to include other groups.  "I kind of like the little stutter
> thing.  It's like equal opportunity, right?", she said.  "We've got a
> stuttering newscaster.  We've got the black, we've got the Asian, we've got
> the woman."  "I could be a lesbian, folk-dancing, black woman stutterer.
> What's that?," she paused.  "In a wheelchair, with a gimping, rubber leg.
> Ya, really.  I'd have a successful career, let me tell you."
> 
> This was not a LIVE report...simply a taped intro to a feature.  

Help me out with this...IS she a lesbian, folk dancing, black woman
stutterer in a wheelchair with a gimping, rubber leg?  If she is,
she may have a niche.  (Although she probably can't play saxophone
and wear a size 37 suit.)

Bill O'Neill