Been watching the last hour of the Today show with Hoda and Kathy Lee....only Kathy Lee is gone and
Meredith Vieira is the co-host, and I really think she should replace Kathy Lee.....she's doing a great job. Never really cared for her on the early morning show, but she's so much more relaxed and at ease on this one, I really think they should dump Kathy Lee. JMHO. 
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I see the show almost every day and it looks like Hoda and KL get along just fine. It actually appears to me that there is a bit of tension between Hoda and Meredith.
Anyway, I don't really like Kathy Lee much. It always looks like she's talking over people, interrupting them, etc.
I'd rather have my teeth drilled without novocaine than watch that show. 
be back.
Maybe she's having a hard time with the 30 days of no drinking thing she and Hoda have going.
I'm not much of a drinker, and it always sort of nauseates me to see them drinking wine (or whatever it is they drink out of those fishbowl-sized glasses they use) in the morning. 
I found out that it resulted in sleeping the daylight hours away. [img]
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I was vacation down in Islamorada with Sugar Smack.
Life was too beautiful to miss in an alcoholic fog.
One Beer Buzz in the morning was enough for me on that trip. [img]
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See, now even phrase "beer buzz in the morning" has my stomach doing bad things.
My second husband was an alcoholic. I can't even count the number of mornings I saw him gulp down a beer or two with a shot of Canadian Lord Calvert as some sort of antidote for the hangover caused by a binge the night before.
Before going to work, even! Oh, and he was a truck driver. Scary that he was on the road in a multi-ton vehicle with a buzz on...
Kathy Lee has that tarnished, bitter edge that made her more interesting from when she was unscorned by her trophy husband. Well, not *that* interesting. She's a scrambler, always out there hustling, but sort of pitiful. The Broadway show she'd been pounding out for years bit the dust, and there were bits about how she was at every performance (not to mention every SECOND of the production), even in the lobby hustling. There's just SHLOCK about her: After the holy Hades she made of the trophy husband's betrayal, NOW when another celebrity couple has had a similar meltdown (who is Peter COOK and who is he married to, former HUGH model? I don't know these people, have NO idea who COOK is, but his name is easy to remember), Kathy Lee delivered a lecture, "NOBODY CARES (about your scandal). Just STOP calling attention to yourself, NOBODY CARES." Uh... no, Kathy Lee doesn't care because it's not HER scandal!1 She whined her way off of the Regis & KL show because she said she was just aching and bursting to do something creative herself instead of hosting tons of creative guests with projects. So what did she do, go co-host ANOTHER subway stop.
O.K., here's where Trouble talks: Meredith has had gravitas from Day 1 (60 Minutes?). She radiates intelligence. But (here we go) *HOW* many jobs has she quit -- jobs that just about everybody would kill for? Yes, the reasons have always been noble: CBS, because of breastfeeding; The View, O.K. to go to Today; something (not a Quit) to caretake? or plain old MAGNIFICENTLY-Helpmeet her husband with M.S.; Millionaire, who knows/cares, enough money/time to go/whatever? Starr JONES seemed clingy/needy onto Meredith who tried not to be embarrassed, but the embarrassment seemed to extend to most of The View. Besides, the fly in the soup was Millionaire, like her STATURE combined with Millionaire?!1 But the serial quitting, it's almost like she's TOO GOOD for everything, just the slightest little tad of that, that after awhile almost suggests the Classiest Kid in High School.
Maybe I can redeem myself with this: For all the carping I'm doing here on the quitting thing, the thing she doesn't ever seem to have quit is her family (husband and way proud of her kids). 
