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Tag: Charlie Rose

  • Adams does Conan, Wahlberg/Bale/Russell on Charlie Rose

    I had lunch yesterday with “The Fighter” star Amy Adams and hope to have that interview up some time over the holiday.  When we said goodbye, she was off to the Warner Bros. lot for an interview taping with Conan O’Brien.  I wasn’t able to watch last night but I wanted to track it down since, interestingly enough, O’Brien’s sister, Kate, played one of Mickey Ward’s sisters in the film.  Here it is:

    Meanwhile, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and David O. Russell sat down with Charlie Rose this week. Check that interview out here.

  • Oh Mickey, you’re so fine

    I regretfully haven’t had time today to check out Mickey Rourke’s in-depth interview with Charlie Rose that aired last night, but I hear that it’s all kind of special. Jeff Wells, for one, was thoroughly melted by it:

    I’ve felt admiration and grudging respect for Rourke before but I fell in love with him last night, as far as that’s feasible or possible from an electronic remove. I don’t care if it was an act, I loved it anyway … His calm determination that no matter what goes down there’s no stopping him, no quitting now. His saying that if Penn wins he’ll stand up and cheer because he’s great and a brother and maybe he’ll have his turn a year or two down the road. That quiet, settled, almost-dweeby quality he showed with those black horn-rim glasses…man!

    Someone has to grab that interview and put it out there right away. It was important, landmark, for the ages…please.

    More than anything, a win for Mickey Rourke is what I want to see next Sunday evening. I love Sean Penn, I truly do. He’s my favourite actor of this generation. But there’s something about Rourke’s performance in “The Wrestler” that makes me choke up a little every time I even think about it — and he sure knows how to carry that pathos into an interview context. I look forward to watching this. I don’t think it’s been uploaded yet, but it should appear soon here.

  • Pitt, Fincher do Charlie Rose

  • Greetings from the Regent Street Apple Store

    This place is a Mac mecca.  Sheesh…

    Anyway, it looks like my world famous bad luck has leaked over into my Mac phase and I’ll likely have to replace the hard drive on my machine.  Luckily its under warranty, but a lot of great photos are lost to the gremlins of cyberspace.  Onward.

    I wanted to duck in and mention something about Tim Russert.  I heard the news of his death on the weekend in Belfast (Bush is there today, and his arrival at Heathrow yesterday delayed my flight a few hours…Air Force One was lurking out on the runway like the devil’s carriage that it is).  Anyway, it hit me harder than I thought such news might have.  Here was a guy who knew how to ask the follow-up questions in a media environment concerned with soundbites first, pertinent information second.  Meet the Press was a flagship that seemed to only be navigable with Russert at the helm.

    I’m not sure who has the brass to take up the reins in Russert’s wake.  Charlie Rose leaps to mind.  But I don’t know.  It’s a sad moment and a huge blow in an election year, it goes without saying.

    Go gently…