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It was a waste of time. Terrible interview in my opinion.

Well then, let's read it:

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/16/lklw.00.html

Dang it! Wrong interview!

Must be something, somewhere...nice songs, those...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/26/lkl.01.html

This is the right transcript.

Yeah, it was just ok. I wasn't expecting much more from Larry.

I also will never get to Vegas. Maybe Cirque du Soleil will take it on the road. I've seen two Cirque shows in person. One was fair and the other was very good.

I agree a DVD would be a good idea but I've seen parts of CdS shows on TV and it's not close at all to seeing in person.

I thought the interview was a good read---it was fun to hear their reactions to the crisp sound achieved for this piece. They all appear to get along well enough. I've always figured they all relate to each other much better than all the gossipy stories and suppositions would have us believe. I get tired of people flatly declaring that Yoko is a witch, or Paul is a jerk.

Larry, on the other hand, really is a dork.

I have to admit I was rather suprised with how nice Yoko was last night. I was very impressed with Olivia Harrison, she seems like a very nice, classy lady who handled herself really well. Paul looked his age, and somewhat tired too. I guess after Heather, it's understandable. Ringo looked fantastic and energetic. The interview was very weak though. The Paris Hilton promos irratated me though. I have no interest in her at all.

i liked it when larry called ringo 'george'. proves his 'quality' as a reporter, uh, i mean interviewer, uh i mean a guy with an oversized cranium, uh i mean that guy they found at roswell...

Yes, and the first interview I accidentally posted? Larry asked Paul the same question: where were you when John died? What a ghoul.

It was really cool seeing all of them in the same room together but I thought Larry King did a terrible job with the interview. You would think he would have done a little research to prevent him from asking so many dumb questions. I didn't appreicate him interupting the guests in the middle of their answers either.

Larry King has said that he deliberately does not do any research so he can be your average idiot Everyman in his interviews. He apparently believes that it makes him accessible as a person to the viewers since he's asking the same dumbass questions the dumbasses at home would ask.

Actually, what this makes him is a complete and utter tool; a tool of the people he's interviewing (since they know they can basically say anything and get away with it since he is incapable of calling them on their ********) and a tool of the standard insult type.

To sum up: Larry King?

Tool.

Also, "Love" is a really gorgeous show and the show has more songs than the sound track.

I watched Larry King Live last night shortly after returning home from the Caribbean. I do admit to being quite fatigued when the program started. However, this is how it all struck me at the time.

Larry is the last of a dying breed. He seems out of place in his sphere of work in much the same way I believe that Ed Sullivan was out of place in his line of work. Larry is a bit of an oddity really, especially in this age of sophisticated, well rehearsed and toe the party line television news personalities.

I find his clumsiness somewhat refreshing. He demonstrated last night that he can find himself stuck for words when faced with the prospect of talking to famous, important or powerful people. That gives him a lot in common with a broad cross section of people around the world. Perhaps that's the secret to his success?

I looked past Larry King and was far more intent on the words that flowed from Ringo, Paul, Olivia and yes even Yoko.

Paul was doing his vaudeville "nothing sticks to me" act and was doing quite well throughout the show. That is, until as someone mentioned his actions at the end betrayed him. I am of course, referring to how he handled being introduced to a little boy right at the end of the show. What he did and didn't do, spoke volumes for those with eyes to see. Sad really.

Yoko seemed OK last night. Ringo was great and Olivia....well lets just say, she is a very classy lady.

I recorded the show last night hoping it would be a classic interview. However, it fell way short of any meaningful or insightful information thanks to L. King. I've read a couple of posts referring to Paul not engaging in a conversation with a young boy (King's son). If you go back and review that portion of the show you will see that as Paul gets ready to walk over to the seated crowd, King points out his son to Paul. As Paul walks over to the crowd he goes directly over to King's son and another child and gives them high fives. Then as Paul is walking up the steps to his seat King's son comes over to his Dad and Paul again grabs the boy by the arm and quickly saids something and it appeared he briefly shook his hand as well. He then proceeds towards his seat. Quite honestly I don't understand all the fuss. He made a very nice gesture in going over to high five the kids then as he was walking by acknowledges the child again. Seems like a pretty genuinely nice guy to me. Check it out for yourselves.

Yeah, I saw it too. Paul briefly acknowleged the kid. No big whoop. It's a non-snub.