They must have been short of material, and simply used it as a filler. And not a
very good editing job at that. The original which aired about 6 months ago would have
been nice.
Michel
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From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 09:45
Subject: Re: Charlie Rose and Henri Cartier-Bresson
>
>
> Mike Johnston wrote:
>
> > I must confess that I stayed up TWO HOURS past my usual beddy-bye time last
> > night to watch the putative "interview" performed by Charlie Rose with Henri
> > Cartier-Bresson, and I'm pissed as a wet cat.
>
> I was, as you put it, likewise "pissed.." because I totally forgot the show
> until the
> last 20 mins or so - turns out I tuned in just a couple of minutes before the
> Bresson
> segment and was wondering who the photog was just before Bresson.
>
> I agree that Rose's interview of Bresson was lacking - geez... I have a strong
> suspicion
> that Rose knows nothing about photography - suspicion is a tad too mild I
> guess. What
> a shame. He can be pretty interesting a savvy about other matters as I recally,
> though
> I haven't really watched his show in a long time.
>
>
> > had to sit through three
> > sappy female National Geographic photographers who had not a thing to say
> > but who looked like geniuses compared to the next photographer at bat,
>
> Hey - could you maybe just have called them sappy photographers? (ann, female
> photog, pouts.)
>
> > (snip, snip about Weber)
> >
> > Next up, the piece de merde, ten of the emptiest minutes of TV I've ever
> > watched on purpose, a rat-a-tat-tat of awkward questions posed to a halting
> > old man struggling against the language barrier by an interviewer who was
> > apparently only interested in, guess what, the celebrity value of the
> > subjects of some of the portraits, and whose idea of a piercing journalistic
> > question is "Who is better for you, Matisse or Picasso...to your eye [points
> > to eye] and your heart [points to heart]?" Gag me with a stirring rod.
>
> I would not have put it quite that strongly, but it was pretty awful.
>
> > About
> > the only scant reward of the entire exercise was Henri's smile (still
> > charming after all these years) and the sight of him saying "I never crop"
> > while sitting directly in front of the _one_ famous picture of his which is
> > always cropped.
>
> Hmm I might have missed this - but I do remember him pointing to the photo
> of the Buddist monk and muttering that it was a bad picture (that should have
> been
> cropped?)
>
> > But even that was ruined when Charlie Rose (who I've never
> > really watched before but who has now permanently convinced me of his
> > hopeless superficiality) teased Cartier that maybe one of his celebrity
> > photographs needed cropping and then laughed uproariously for way too long
> > about it before gazing soulfully at the camera and truncating the
> > non-interview with a "see you next time."
> >
> > NOT.
>
> Yeah, it was pretty sad. I didn't mean to just "me too" this , MIke, but
> wondered
> if we were talking about the same picture re the cropping. I was multi-tasking
> a bit while the end of the show was on.
>
> annsan
>
>
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