Tina Brown: Sorry, Charlie. I Wanna Be Like Larry

Daniel Bozhkov's Larry King crop circle, image: centralmaine.com

Hmm. Wethinks the lady doth protest too much. Hannity gets a mention, as does Colmes, but Charlie Rose is conspicuously absent from Tina Brown’s column on her “round table discussions rather than solo interviews” talk show. So who’ser daddy? “Solo interviewer” Larry King, of course. Tina’s gleanings from the master:

  • “mastery of the lowbrow”
  • “iron-butt stamina”
  • “a toddler-like short attention span”
  • “Everyman questions that defy the danger of Deep Thoughts”
  • “[I am] on a crusade to make every bore interesting.”
    Bonus 1: The artist Daniel Bozhkov created a giant crop circle of Larry King. His exhibit about the project (including on-air discussion of the project by Larry and his guest, the art critic formerly known as Matthew Perry) closes at Andrew Kreps Gallery this weekend [Where’s the website, Andrew?]
    Bonus 2: Talking Points Memo has hilarious-but-painful-but-true commentary on Larry’s interviewing style. Required reading for new talk show hosts. You will be graded on this.