Whoopi Goldberg completed her first week as the new moderator on "The View" and she did it with humor, style and intelligence. I must say it was almost jarring not to have the kind of fireworks that seemed to always crop up with Rosie O'Donnell, but as she worked her way through the week, Whoopi put her own stamp on the show and promised to bring a level of calm perspective, especially during the popular hot topics segment.

Barbara Walters started off Whoopi's first show with a nice congratulatory note from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. There were a lot of menopausal jokes, something I guess we're going to get a lot of with three of the four women knee deep in or post-menopausal. After bouncing around the table to get reports on everyone's summer---Joy spent time on a friend's yacht, Elisabeth is still pregnant, Babs is working on her auto-biography---the discussion turned to football player Michael Vick and his guilty plea to dogfighting.

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