Style Rookie? Not in my book!

I was puttering around trying to find interviews with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (which I will be posting soon) and as often happens...no as always happens, I got distracted and went off in a completely different direction.

Well I'm so glad I did, because I came across an interview in Interview Magazine with this awesome little girl named Tavi Williams. She is twelve, but has already made a big splash in the fashion blogging world and is SO SO SO adorable...and completely mature and self-possessed at the same time.

Check out all her wonderful self-portaits on her blog Style Rookie. She's a genius mash-up of Pippi Longstocking, Blossom, and bona-fide fashion hipster. Please let me be blessed with a daughter as cool as she is someday!...Please let me be as cool as she is someday! :-)

Here is the interview with her at InterviewMagazine.com

Richard Avedon

My husband just turned me on to a fantastic series of interviews between Charlie Rose and Richard Avedon. Once again I find it fascinating to hear someone who has made a life-long career out of getting reactions or moments of "truth" out of other people talk about what that process is like for him. 

Photography, especially portraiture, has always been one of my great loves. Like a good interview those photographs have the potential to express and show rare moments of clarity with the subject. Richard Avedon was a true master of capturing these elusive moments. He had the gifts of not only knowing who was going to be an interesting subject, but also how to draw them out to snap that mili-second where their gaze or angle of their head expressed exactly who they were in that moment. An alchemy that few truly achieve.

This is another marathon interview, but if you are a photography fan these are must see moments with Avedon, who was notoriously shy and gave few interviews. 

Larry King on how to get what you want out of an interview and why he only wears button suspenders.

Here's an interview with Larry King from CNN/TIME. It's not often that he's in the guest chair, so I thought it was worth posting. 

I think what he says about the interview needing to be 90% guest and 10% interviewer is very important. While Larry King is already a TV icon, I think it's respectable that he knows who people are really tuning in to watch. 

As he says: "I never learn a thing while I was talking."

I wonder what the world of TV interviews will be like when people like Larry King, with old fashioned manners, are no longer around? 

* I've included Larry's memoir "My Remarkable Journey" in the bookstore if you're interested in reading more about him. 

Madoff's Whistle Blower Talks

 
Here is the first television interview on 60 Minutes with the man who figured out what Bernie Madoff was up to before anyone else, Harry Markopolos. 

The fact that he figured out in 2000 that Madoff was using a Ponzi scheme and tried to tell the SEC five times, with nothing done, is insane! How is that possible?? This guy says he figured it out in 5 minutes and was able to prove it in 4 hours through simple math...well, maybe not simple math. 

If he's right that the SEC doesn't investigate fraud until after a crime is over, then maybe Obama should keep a close eye on his newly appointed head of the SEC, Mary Schapiro. She apparently hired Madoff's son to serve on the National Adjudicatory Council at FINRA. The council was designed to review disciplinary decisions made by FINRA. Hhhmmm...I wonder how he would have voted when his father's company, a company he was also a chief executive at, was brought up for review???

After reading in the New York Times today about how he is trying to keep $62 Million in assets that are supposedly his wife's, I am even more disgusted with Madoff and his family.