When I'm bored, which is often, I like to poke around Google Video's selection of lengthy interviews from the Archive of American Television. The other day I found there's a lot of interviews of some really great television personalities who have since passed on to that great cathode ray tube in the sky. Here are five I think are worth checking out:
Fred Rogers: Several years ago, despite the fact that he hadn't really done anything besides what he had done most of his life, host a children's program, Esquire magazine named Fred Rogers their Man of the Year. It was one of the best profiles the mag had ever done, and it's because nobody on television was as kind and genuine as Fred.
Jennifer Love Hewitt may talk to the deceased on her show Ghost
Whisperer, but the actress says sometimes people think she actually has the ability to communicate with the dead.
Well, even James Van Praagh, the "ghost whisperer" on which the show is based, can't really talk to the dead,
but that doesn't stop people from giving him money. Perhaps Hewitt should take a page from Praagh and just fake it
anyway. It'd be a good way to earn a little extra scratch. Anyway, she's not the only celebrity to be mistaken for one
of their characters. I spent years trying to get Alan Alda to remove shrapnel from my leg before someone told me he's
not really a surgeon.
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