Netanyahu looked like a star-struck young man.

'U ntil you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star!'' -- Bette Davis. I suppose this is true in a lot of professions.

Speaking of formidable personalities, I recently recalled the good old days, when I frequently found myself at warm and mighty private dinners in Barbara Walters' apartment.

Here, I met a lot of people above my station, so to speak. I encountered people, all different types, from the big name movie stars of Hollywood to the movers and shakers in Washington, D.C. One such was a young man I was given to understand was a rising force in Israel. I couldn't see it really. I thought he was probably invited and always hanging around because he was an available single man who was kind of star-struck and had a crush on Barbara. She used to laugh and shake her head at my romantic theories.

I never considered that someday Benjamin Netanyahu would be making world headlines and disrupting American events as he has this week.

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