Your first star interview

Kyle did that at the Charity Ride event I covered as well. His "handlers" were telling him that he had to go, but Kyle told them to wait so he could finish interviews and get pictures with people. A great experience.

Only things wrong with it was a TV guy screaming at him after their interview to stay so he could get an autograph and a picture.

But that's another thread for another time.

 

You don't say. The Donald, a publicity whore?

what the fuck did Pete expect? "Hey, Pete, do you think the line on the Reds game tonight is fair?"

 

I got that impression. May have been wrong.

 

My first really big story interview Randy Moss. He was very insightful, intellegent, and he answered every question with good responses.

Chris

 

Outing alert: ChrisYandek is Ricky Williams.

 

I can't remember the first "celebrity" I interviewed. I do remember that when I worked at the bureau for Southam News (my first job in journalism), I had a day where I got calls returned from Ed Asner, Bruce Cockburn, and Rikki Rocket -- not exactly your ordinary trifecta. It was actually pretty strange.

First athlete I can remember interviewing was Jose Canseco. He'd hit a one-handed home run off a curveball in the dirt. I asked him how he did it. Steroids wasn't part of his answer.

First movie star was Naomi Watts. You might think it's hard to sustain a boner for an eight-hour interview, but I pulled the trick.

And later, in my spare white room at the Mondrian, my pud.

 

Did the little reporter's notebook cover the situation?

 

No boner for Ed Asner?

 

i know how he pronounces his name, i like his music but i always take notice of the spelling of his name ... somehow this segues into cockburn.

 

Potentially the most disturbing sentence I have ever read on SportsJournalists.com.

 

It would make a good T-shirt, though.

 

I think that takes care of that.

As for me, this is a little lame, but frankly, I haven't interviewed many important people. Might have been in a gaggle around a few big names, but nothing I'd bother sharing here. But I've had a big man/fantasy owner-crush on Jabar Gaffney since he got drafted, so interviewing him a few weeks ago was kind of neat.