CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is well-known for his insistence on not “being the story,” keeping his personal life under wraps as he reports from locations all over the world on every conceivable newsworthy event.

But the newsman and his famous fashion designer mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, recently spoke publicly about the ripple effects of the suicide of Cooper’s brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper. Cooper discussed the event with his 87-year-old mother in an interview, and both were visibly moved when discussing the tragedy of two decades ago.

Vanderbilt cited her younger son, Anderson, who was 21 at the time, as her reason for not succumbing totally to the loss. She recalls the moment when her older son plunged from the family’s 14th floor penthouse- an event she happened to witness.

“He was sitting on the wall with one foot hanging over and he kept looking down and I kept begging him [to come back]. When he went … I thought he was going to come back, but he didn’t… He let go, and there was a moment when I thought I was going to jump over after him.”

She adds:

“I thought of you and it stopped me from [following]… There’s never closure on something that happens like this.”

Anderson is 44 now, and has some recollections of his own on lighter topics. While the newsman deals with a range of stories each day, he admits they can be a bit odd when they involve your mother:

“What’s amazing, my mom has written a dozen books—one of them was a romance memoir about some of the gentleman callers I guess that she had over the years,… She asked me to proofread and I was like ‘Really? Really?’ So I did, and it was funny because I used to watch old movies with my mom when I was a kid, and there’s like Frank Sinatra in some movie and I would turn and be like, ‘Oh, did you ever know Frank SInatra?’ She would look at me and be like, ‘Oh yes.’ “

The interview aired this afternoon on Cooper’s talk show, Anderson.

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Part of the Amy Winehouse story will be told on September 12 when newscaster Anderson Cooper sits down with the Winehouse Family, the first guests for his new talk show titled Anderson.

The interview will include Amy’s Grammy award winning parents Mitch and Janice, along with her brother Alex and her last boyfriend Reg Traviss.

It will also mark the first time the family has talked about Amy’s death since she was found in July in her North London apartment.

A full inquest is still expected for Amy’s passing next month, although most fans and critics have long suspected that her drug addiction led to her passing, a toxicology report which showed no illegal substances in her body.

Since the talk show is new you’ll want to check local listed for showtimes.

Do you think Amy Winehouse’s family should be going on the air to talk about their family member? Leave us your thoughts.

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Pamela Anderson may only have been an American for approximately 5 minutes, but she already has plenty of advice about how president elect Obama should fix America.  In fact she felt so strongly she wrote Barack Obama an open letter on her site.

She obviosuly wrote this helpful advice herself as its full of weird punctuation, funky sentences and she has never heard of an enter key.

Firstly she wanted Obama to read a couple of books. One of them is The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein which is essentially a rant about capitalism and “orthodox economic theory”.  This is a bit hypocritical from someone who makes tens of millions from “acting” and endorsements.

So howe lse would Pammy fix America? By promoting vegetarianism (which will end world hunger), and legalizing marijuana.    

She also had some helpful advice about child molesters and child pornography:

Government must Castrate every molester-or potential molester- error on the safe side- if any child pornography is found in anyone’s possession-or anyone creating such atrocities-or if any child Is brave enough to come forward (at any young age to bring attention to a potential molester- listen) they need to be taken very seriously and see that justice is served-The abuse is way worse than any trial could be- our children need more protection and justice seen. It needs to be PREVENTED not just punished.

 

Got that Obama? Good.

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