Charlie Rose
If you read this blog you know I am a great admirer of Charlie Rose. Listening to him and his guests is an ongoing seminar on – pretty much everything.
He recently did his annual “Remembrance” show, honoring people who died in 2009. He showed excerpts from 32 interviews. 32 interviews with 32 extraordinary people. I was struck again by the breadth of his interests and the quality of his intellect.
The people on the show included:
Human Rights Activists
Clergymen
Authors
News media luminaries
Representatives of the arts and architecture
Teachers
Those who made their name in government and politics
Businesspeople
They were:
Helen Suzman
Richard Neuhaus
John Updike
Bill Tatum
Horton Foote
Natasha Richardson
John Hope Franklin
Jack Kemp
Marilyn French
David Herbert Donald
Ed McMahon
Bob McNamara
Walter Cronkite
Frank McCourt
Merce Cunningham
Charles Gwathmey
Les Paul
Robert Novak
Don Hewitt
Ted Kennedy
Dominick Dunne
Larry Gelbart
Irving Kristol
William Safire
Richard Sonnenfeldt
Bruce Wasserstein
Roy DeCarava
James Lilley
Thomas Hoving
Yegor Gaidar
Ron Silver
Kenneth Bacon
The show aired on Jan. 1. If you missed it, do yourself a favor and visit the Charlie Rose website to see it.
http://www.charlierose.com/
posted by Dan at 9:57 AM
1 Comments:
Appreciate the reminder of the Charlie Rose program. I too was amazed at the vastness of his interviewees—immediately had to watch two episodes.
No Tiger Woods interview, but he did interview Tiger's dad, Earl Woods, who was on camera promoting his book "Training a Tiger, A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life."
Then I had to watch Robert McNamara, chief architect of America's involvement in the Vietnam War, explain how wrong he was about the war, a war during which Earl Woods served two tours of duty.
In a weird sense, had Robert not been such a warmonger—and Earl, who met his second wife in SE Asia, not been a monger of another sort—there would be no Tiger Woods.
My question to Robert McNamara would have been about his influence on professional golf. For one can never fully realize the consequences of their actions—especially when engaging in love and war. ~Ksketcher
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