Re: [videoblogging] "How Old is Dick Cavett?"

[Randolfe Wicker]

My next questions for Dick Cavett would have been: "What are you doing now?" and "Have you encountered age discrimination in our youth oriented media?"   Both of those would have been fascinating to have answered. Randolfe (Randy) Wicker   Videographer, Writer, Activist Advisor: The Immortality Institute Hoboken, NJ http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/ 201-656-3280     ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Ludington To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:10 PM Subject: RE: [videoblogging] "How Old is Dick Cavett?"     From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolfe Wicker Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:41 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] "How Old is Dick Cavett?"   "Leading off with an entirely irrelevant and possibly antagonistic question and expecting to get the attention and respect you want isn't a relationship building strategy. You become know as the asshole with the camera instead of someone worth talking to."   Well, forgive me for being curious.  That question was driving me crazy.  I thought Dick Cavett was in his eighties.  When I guessed his age as being 75, I was being very kind.   I object to this nonsense about "being ashamed of one's age".  One of the first things I'll voluntarily tell you is that I am 67 years old.   I'll happily become known as "the asshole with the camera".  I've always asked the hard and unexpected questions in interviews.  That's why my early radio interviews got rave reviews in the New York Times, The Herald Tribune and Newsweek Magazine. You can get his age from IMDB.com. In the context of the roundtable leading up to your question, how was his age relevant? You set the question up as being ‘tough’ before you asked, which likely put his guard up. What was your next question after the age question going to be?   I’m not saying don’t ask tough questions and I’m not even specifically referring to that question, rather the discussion in general of “new media” being all about sticking it to the man.   Jake Ludington   http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com http://www.jakeludington.com       SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.