Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figured, `what better way to...dramatize this than to actually do this ourselves?'" Weller said in an interview yesterday...
...suppose I am all of those things, but we never invite somebody on to demonstrate condescension -- or condensation. If somebody comes on and is a bonehead and is loafing through an interview, I resent that, and maybe I will then go after them. But if you come on and are polite and well groomed and behave yourself, then you've got nothing to worry about. I'm stunned at the number of people in show business who come on and don't seem to get that what we want from them is a performance, you know, tell us three stories...
...that really upset me recently was Shirley MacLaine. Shirley was too big a star to do a pre-interview. We had no idea what she wanted to talk about. So the talent staff put together a list of four or five questions based on research material. Then she comes on the program and she brings with her an attitude, which she mentioned early on: "I guess Cher was right." ((Cher once called Letterman an unprintable name on the air.)) I thought that was untoward, needless. And then, when I would ask her the questions, about her past lives or about...
...INTERVIEW: David Letterman, host of TV's funniest talk show, gets serious -- sort of -- about his career and his comedy...
...school's success is Doss's limitless energy. An insurance agent, he doubles as academy director and head basketball coach. The combination keeps him running at fast-break pace. On this typical Saturday, after a 5:30 a.m. radio station interview, he'll work until past midnight without even meal breaks, fueled by oatmeal cookies and lime Kool...