So at the “Anchorman 2” premiere anchorperson Rosanna Scotto:
“In my early days, right after getting engaged, came an offer from Philadelphia. I thought, do I move? I’d already worked backstage in Atlanta. Pounding the pavement three months, I was nervous. I applied to freelance at Fox. One freezing St. Patrick’s Day, with everyone sick, they called. My first assignment and I had to find some facacta green something. I got the job and was a cub reporter eight years.
“I remember covering a fallen young girl stuck in a ditch for hours. And all the while I stayed dramatic. After three, four years, they assigned me Sunday nights. I’ve now been a Channel 5 anchor 27 years.”
So what becomes a legend most? It’s not Blackglama. It’s Brooklynese.
“I’ve tried to lose my Brooklyn accent. Spent lots of money. They sent me to school. Tried teaching me to pronounce the ‘T’ in Manhattan. They gave up. Some words and syllables I’ve never pronounced. I try, even now. I think in my head but can’t say ‘for.’ It’s, ‘Going fuh coffee.’ Or, ‘Don’t want to talk to huh.’ I am who I am.
“Listen, all of us junk up sometimes. I got hit with a Hula-Hoop. Once I said a bad word but didn’t know it. I didn’t know [bleep] meant male sperm. My daughter knew; I didn’t. People like it when we have fun.”
And what time does she get up?
“Every morning, 4:30. Sleep somewhere between 9:30 and 11 if I’m not out to cover something. I put on weight when I’m tired, so I’m SoulCycling to take off a few pounds. Sometimes I grab an afternoon power nap. I share an office with Ernie Anastos, who does the 5 o’clock news. I’m messy and my co-anchor Greg Kelly, whom I love, is messy. So we need our space.”
In Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s doing as well as Rosanna. Food destination, sports destination, now a shopping destination. There’s Bath & Body Works, Target, Sephora, H&M. Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Terminal mall just added hip retail joint Uniqlo. Soon Fifth Avenue will look like an annex . . . Meanwhile, Marisa Ramirez of “Blue Bloods” shopped holiday gift baskets at Kado. Where’s that? Bleecker Street.
Here & there
Gaga and Jim Carrey’s real estate hunters Tom Postillo and Mickey Conlon invited Christine Ebersole and David Hyde Pierce to a party. Nice but nobody got in. The joint was shut . . . Katie Couric’s deal is one more year. Stations assembled for her program are returning to ABC’s affiliates . . . America Ferrera, who always says nice things, raving to whoever’ll listen about “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” Calls it “freaking hilarious.”
Anchors’ way
Steve Carell on “Anchorman 2”: “It’s a bigger movie than the first one. Actually smarter.” Yeah? How? “It makes salient points.” Yeah? How? “I don’t know exactly, but when you see it, you’ll see it.” Right . . . And local anchor Kristine Johnson, who’s so good on CBS-TV: “My favorite news anchor? Me. When I’m on, I watch me. Nobody else.”
Get past parenthood
Next month comes New York magazine editor Jennifer Senior’s “All Joy And No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.” She talks of sex, romance, dating, marriage, newborns, new parents, jobs, habits, hobbies, headaches, lives transforming into sleep deprivation, mommyhood, daddyhood, and battlegrounds. In line with Hollywood’s new hobby of babymaking, she says, “Reconsider the role of children in your lives.”
The digital life
Newest dilemma: Friday and Saturday night singles bars drying up. Now it’s match.com dating sites. WOR’s Mark Simone says nobody meets anymore. Talks anymore. They text. Post pictures. Even with banking, it’s just hold the check to an iPhone. Dating is now digital.
Crossing at the 72nd and Park curb, heading uptown. Middle-aged She hollering at a senior-aged He: “If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.