But her public self - tsked at on Twitter last year for saying Denzel Washington “jumped all over me” in an old interview loving the problematic movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” so much that she made it the theme of her 50th birthday party casually citing Longfellow’s exoticizing epic poem “The Song of Hiawatha” - is still vulnerable. Richer than Croesus, surrounded by trophies and commanding an eponymous media company with her second husband, John Molner, Couric no longer has to worry about a contract or a program getting canceled. Unmentioned is yet another name- specter: the so-called “Karen,” archetype of entitled white woman - sometimes portrayed, as it happens, with a Peter Pan pixie haircut. But the inner “Katherine” continued to stomp her foot, quite rightly wanting recognition and respect for trips to war zones and interviews with world leaders - even as her fun-loving alter ego did things like fly across Rockefeller Center in a Peter Pan costume, sprinkling fistfuls of confetti. To “lend an air of authority my face and voice lacked.”ĭuring the chirpy morning hours of “Today,” the show that made Couric famous, relatability trumped authority, and so “Katie” prevailed. Early in her broadcasting career, Katie Couric tried using her given name, Katherine, onscreen: “to counteract my Campbell’s Soup Kid looks,” she writes in a new book that has been leaking like unburped Tupperware throughout the media ecosystem.
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