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Back in December, during the "My Gawd, You Don't Love Paul?" wars that erupted on another thread...and I was in the middle of...I mentioned this Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview that host Barbara Frum conducted with Paul McCartney.

Frum, for those not familiar with her work, was a well-respected radio journalist, who made the move to public television news in 1982. She was not a "celebrity" interviewer, as she usually tackled the real news stories of the day.
(The CBC being very much like the BBC, at least it was back then before massive budget cuts and short-sighted attempts to appeal to populist trash programming).

Regardless, McCartney was doing the rounds for his film at this time, and stopped off at the CBC.

In her book, Frum talked about that day, and how McCartney came off, before the interview, as super-arrogant (my words, not hers), more so than most world leaders and dictators she had interviewed.

So, judge for yourself. No, there is no footage of before the interview, but this link should take you to the actual interview from October 19th, 1984.

(C) CBC...just in case they're watching!

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-68-368-2040/arts_entertainment/frum/

Very possibly, good point.

At least McCartney's hair doesn't look as dated as her do.

I really didn't see anything wrong with how he acted, but then again, I'm a Macca fan, so my opinion doesn't count. He very well could have been an *** before the interview started.

No, there was certainly nothing wrong with the actual interview. He was his usual charming self.
I put the link up as I thought you might find it interesting, just as a McCartney interview. No controversy.

"I never will, and even if I do, I am not a judge anyway. I still love those 4 guys, warts and all..."

Excellent points and my feeling exactly, David.

Good interview.
She was apparently a star in her own right.
Maybe that had some thing to do with how she perceived Paul's behavior.

Until you've gone through what they've gone through, you do not have the ability to understand the behavior of a famous person. Imagine everyone who ever comes in contact with you WANTING something from you. If I met Paul, I would REALLY WANT his attention. It would mean a lot to me. I would hold back, yes, but I would WANT it.

Wouldn't that suck? It would be like a world filled with relentless telemarketers, and it would fill any normal person with anger and resentment.

We torture celebrities, then we lambast them when they're not sweet as candy to us.

I wouldn't touch fame with a 29-and-a-half foot pole.

He's actually from Ecuador.

I often wonder what Linda would have thought of her son David Frum...

Now that's an interesting question! When Mr. Frum first came to prominence in conservative circles here in Canada, I didn't know that he was Barbara's son.

I'm not a big fan of the David. The States can have him' he's always been so desperate to embrace the neo-cons from south-of-the-border.

No, I don't imagine Linda would have agreed with much of what he had to say.

"The David"
I read somewhere that David Frum was supposedly fired from Bush's speech writing team because his wife was openly boasting that her husband came up with the term "Axis of Evil". Oops.. thread drift....

David, I belong on your "Paul Lovers" list. Paul has always had that sense of humor. She was kinda "flakey."

She was not respectful throughout the interview, concentrating on making McCartney uncomfortable. I don't mean respectful because of who he is, but respectful because she has a job to do and is supposed to do that job with dignity herself. It is not an interviewer's job to make people backpeddle to the defense at virtually every question, especially when there is really nothing that will add to the interview by becoming an agressive interviewer. She had an objective, plain and simple. As the old pro, though, he showed class and dignity----she did not. The interview made her, another old pro, look bad.

Really? Wow.

Although some of Frum's questions were pointed and put Paul on the defensive, I got much more out of the interview than if it had been a fluffy talk about his Broadstreet movie.