Even in the company of the great Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan, and Carol Burnett, one of my favorite interview subjects of all time is the incomparable Judge Judy, the charismatic powerhouse who reigns over the highest-rated court session on TV, with more than ten million viewers tuning in daily.
Amazingly, she’s been #1 for the last 700 weeks! Beyond ratings, nobody can surpass Judy’s astute judgments, spicy humor, supersonic mind, and no-nonsense attitude.
And best of all, fear is not in her vocabulary—as she says the things we all want to.
“LOOK at me, Madam!” shouts the Queen of small-screen Justice to an evasive witness.
“Does it say ‘stupid,’ here?” she inquires, pointing briskly to her forehead.
“They don’t pay me because I’m beautiful,” she mugs sweetly to the cameras. “I’m real SMART, so watch it!”
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