July 24, 2009
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When Walter Cronkite was just 18, he was a cub reporter for the University of Texas at Austin’s newspaper. When I worked for The Michigan Daily, I got to interview Lily Tomlin.
He got to interview Gertrude Stein.
The interview is pretty amazing. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to sit across from her. You can read the full text of the article, originally printed on March 22, 1935, at The Daily Texan.
July 15, 2009
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As an homage to the opening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I thought I’d post a little something on the world’s favorite wiz-kid. Heh. There’s a great interview with Daniel Radcliffe up on The Daily Beast. He’s such a sharp kid. And I swooned when he talked a bit about his love for Keats and how he considers his theory of negative capability to be his secret weapon when it comes to acting.
What he said about celebrity and what he called “star systems” in America and the UK was interesting, too. More
