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Castaway
1 appearance
Television interviewer known for her unique, revealing style and fearless interactions with the famous and unusual.
On the island
Eight records
because if you tore off my skin, the essence of me would be the sound of his voice and the total. Isolation and nihilism that's in his sound and in his words.
what I remember of early childhood. Which is Peter Pan, Mary Martin is Peter Pan. And this song will reduce me to tears
A Day in the LifeFavourite
changed my life when I heard the Beatles and light came into my life and I just clamped on the earphones day and night, day and night, and as long as I could hear the Beatles, I knew I'd I'd be saved.
This is just the bit of America that makes me pleased to be American,'cause I thought it was the jazziest thing I'd ever heard.
This music is If I Ever Did a sitcom of my home, this would be the opening of watching my mother cleaning the house.
I just love here where it comes out of icicles and some strange woman's voice comes almost howling out of it. And this is just a little moment that I love.
This is, I guess, indicative of also how I've how I sort of felt when there was a lot of chaos and I was trying to write shows and have babies and be a normal wife or whatever that meant.
Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
the Beethoven has left me. I'll have moments where, you know, i I I'm not like a Passive person.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:17How do you get over the doorstep before you even begin to work your magic on them?
Well, sometimes I'm I'm just like anybody. When I went to the Philippines I was told I had ten minutes with Imelda Marcos, but I knew that she liked pretty girls, so I spent a lot of time in the beauty parlor getting really dialed up, and I made Theo Fennell loan me a hundred thousand pounds worth of rings and jewelry,'cause she knows how much things cost. And she'd think wait, this is no ordinary journalist.
Presenter asks
5:34What happened to your childhood then? Why couldn't you claim it for yourself, live it for yourself?
I've always said when I showed up at the playground, I always thought did the other children smell weirdness dust on me? … from my parents, but I never fit in. And I really wanted to be one of those blondes that went, Please don't throw me in the pool'cause when I said that, nobody threw me in the pool. So um I I wanted to up my personality very badly and I think obviously m things must have happened to get to be so discontent with the role you're cast in.
Presenter asks
12:53Why did you let [your parents] come over here and dominate you over here in your new life?
Well, I tell you, you know, uh we're leaving out a important thing is when you're very young and they tell you you're um they undermine your confidence. … If that voice is fed into your head at a very young age, my father made sure that by the time I was eighteen I was so frightened that I couldn't get a job, that I would need him to help me for the rest of my life.'Cause he said, you know, you're an idiot. By the time you're sixty, you'll be insane. But at least your mother was pretty. So if that's infused in you, you don't really have a lot of confidence to go on and make a career. I really thought I'd never have a job.
The keepsakes
The book
Thomas Mann
Because it it's it's so, um... Outer periphery of your imagination, you know, where you can almost, it's a land you'd like to go to. ... That mountain top? I yearn for the way I yearn for you know what I mean? I I want it. I can feel it and I want to have T V and I want to be there. It's just the most beautiful picture I've ever I've ever read in my life. Why do I love that so much? To be with sick people. But with a good view.'Cause the happiest time I ever had. was those five days in the Priory and I met my own people and they made me laugh more than almost any dinner party I have ever been to in my life. I want to be with sick people'cause we know the end is nigh, but we're in a great location.
The luxury
My luxury would be a probably a Doxiana bed. A huge one, but just for me, obviously. With a du uh, you know, white duvet that's clean all the time and my bed. That's'cause now my favorite position is lying down.
Presenter asks
14:19How did you feel when suddenly [your father] had a stroke?
And you don't feel anything right away, but I turned into a different person after that. He has his massive stroke and starts to um unravel. … and then from then on, just despite him, I took care of him.
Presenter asks
26:30What did [fame] do for your neurosis?
Um, y you know, I think there was a time where uh where you're the little girl at the party who needs all the attention. … many people were added to the address book in a frenzy and you would see how many bleeps there were on the answering machine and that would Dictate how big your heart would be filled with love of yourself.
Presenter asks
30:27Has your pattern been broken and if so how has it changed?
I broke the pattern because I work on it so much because my one priority was I never give my kids the disease my mother passed. And so it wasn't really about me. I already got it. But I swore that when my kids were born, not one of them would ever, ever have to go through this.
“I find Americans in their pleasantness the most dark, unconscious, dangerous. And I'm so fascinated with them and so repelled by them and attracted at the same time”
“To be on TV is to justify your existence in America. That's our queen, and that's our sickness.”
“I was so relieved that it had a name tag. I was so relieved. Uh and so, um, you know, it's a it's a it's a chemical thing. Well, there's books written about it. You're not in your body. And inside there's just blackness. It's like what Churchill called a black dog.”