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...knew his father, and I had a friendship with him," says Hunt, "and I thought he might be a good candidate...
...John McCain four years ago, while writing a book about the last presidential campaign. Our relationship began along the usual journalistic lines, but it soon grew into a genuine friendship. Friendship with a politician is corrupting for a journalist, of course. The obligations of friendship are forever colliding with the truth. But there are also advantages, even literary ones, to being a fallen journalist. For one, the view is better. While the uncorrupted journalist tends to witness only the most self-conscious moments in the lives of the politicians he writes about, a friend can get right in close. Here...
...believed the country needed the people he was trying to elect. For five years, he and I parried on the Today show. Although we disagreed sharply on issues, it was clear to the audience that we didn't dislike each other. In fact, our mutual respect became a friendship. Bob will be missed not just by his party, but by those of us he made better by challenging us to be our best...
...Polish-born actor Klaus Kinski was a born mesmerizer with a rock star's gift for mischief. To put it another way, the guy was nuts, and Herzog had to be a bit eccentric to keep casting him; the five films they made together turned their friendship into a holy war. Yet the combustion produced amazing adventures: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which Kinski goes berserk in the Peruvian rain forest, and Nosferatu the Vampire, with the actor as a pathetic, rodentoid Dracula. This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration...
...between ages 65 and 101. "By 50, people had really come into their own in terms of understanding who they were and what they wanted to do." says Bronte. "They had enough experience so they knew how to do the things they wanted to do, they had professional and friendship networks, they had raised their families, so there was this tremendous flowering of creativity, and they did astonishing things...