OVERKILL OR CURE

I suppose a simple "hello" was out of the question:

TARA BROWN: When you're the best sportsman in the world, the scrutiny is unrelenting. Even when you're just out practising your game, there are always countless camera lenses and thousands of eyes trained on Tiger Woods's every move. Mostly it's in awe - how can one man make the complicated, and often unfair, ways of golf look so simple? Tiger Woods rarely agrees to interviews. He's so famous he doesn't have to. At first he's quite serious, business-like, but when it appears there's no mistaking that trademark smile. In trying to explain golf, in 1916 the New York Tribune wrote, "Golf is in part a game, but only in part. It is also in part a religion, a fever, a vice, a mirage, a frenzy, a fear, an abscess, a joy, a thrill, a pest, a disease, an uplift, a brooding, a melancholy, a dream of yesterday and a hope for tomorrow."

TIGER WOODS: Damn. (LAUGHS)

~~ Tara Brown welcomes T-Woo to Sixty Minutes

By the way, Tiger's in Australia.

I CAN'T EXPLAIN

Tara's bombastic intro reminded me of The Kids are Alright and an interview Pete Townshend did on German TV:

Interviewer: "There is an element in the storyline, the image in the mirror, the pinball, and the sensibility in general - 'See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.' - which reflect a certain sense, the phenomenon of the youth subculture. There is narcissism; there is a kind of new sensibility; there is a strong tendency for playing; and no more putting it into aggressive forms of counter-action."

Pete: "Ummmm."

Comments

[RT]

That NY Tribune person must've been on some Benny Cousins type gear. Golf "a mirage"?!

[Tony]

Perhaps he meant Mirage Resort, which is in Vegas, which would have been a mirage, since Vegas didn't exist in 1916.

[Big Ramifications]

I saw the TV ads for the interview and was left with three lingering thoughts:

1. Crikey! She's starting to look long in the tooth.
2. WTF kind off dumbass questions are they?
3. Don't flirt. Please don't flirt. Flirting is DONE. Flirting is OVER.
4. There was no 4th thing.

The first time I noticed 60 Minutes flirting was the Mike Munro / Dolly Parton interview from 1986. It was quite noticeable [and I believe mostly natural].

The producers saw that they were on a winner and went: LET'S DO THE MALE FEMALE FLIRTY THING IN EVERY INTERVIEW FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS... HELL YEAH!!!

The flirting is so obviously put-on now, and it happens to almost every non-amputee interviewee under the age of 70.

/erm... did she flirt?
//I didn't see the interview

[Tony]

Didn't see it, either. I just heard the last bit of that opening paragraph (the Tribune quote) on SEN on Monday. Actually, the SEN bloke (I think it was Mark Doran) was moved to say something like "Tiger gave 60 Minutes nothing" as if the Tigger was somehow bound to give fulsome answers. Reading the transcript, he was just giving the stupid questions the answers they deserved.

If I ever, EVAH! watch Sixty Minutes and its suck-fests, professional outrages and fake flirting, your are hereby instructed to smash me over the head with a luuuuuuuuggge.

[TimT]

I've read entire novels that are written like that.