It had a few windows on the north side, but these were pressed against the mountain, which is why the corridor was always dark. And it was almost always silent, in my memory at least. I'm not exactly sure why the girl from Ipanema reminds me of the h...
Murakami turned Japanese literature on its head, writing novels and short stories heavily influenced by Western literature that were contemporary, humorous, and that often slipped into the surreal. Hello, mister, whats the matter, lost your guidebook...
Im on the trail of Haruki Murakami, the elusive Haruki Murakami. Hes Japans most successful novelist. He writes off-beat books where dream, memory and reality often swap places with one another. His stories are fueled by his great passionmusic, espec...
It was fun. It was thrilling. You could invite anybody you wanted in the world to come on your show and sit and talk to you. Didn't mean they come, but a whole world and myriad of people did. Do you know how long your tongue is, I hear that its, usua...
We do a show based on somebody's mother. You know, my mother said she saw ,and wed end up doing it. Who has comments about the stories they just heard? Raise your hand. We go to beauty shops where we all, you know, got our hair done and got your nail...
I think Miami Vice was really hot at that time. And we had sent Don Johnson so many letters and we had tried to send him sunglasses like he needs a pair of sunglasses, and Teddy bears and flowers and cards and chocolates and everything. Nothing seeme...
Maybe going national was to help me realize that I have important work, or that this work is important. Which is it? And I vacillate between letting this be the most spectacular moment ever and getting goose bumps tomorrow, or trying to treat it like...
Welcome Roger. Nice to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Roger Ebert and I had gone on a date. Roger Ebert and I had gone out, and now I guess thats what it was. I think it was a date. We went out. We went to a movie and yeah, I think it was. They are n...
That's OK, Ill clean it up. Oops, now you notice how my kitchen is, right? I was used to from one wrong thing after another. Im talking about the fighting allinis. I didn't even know who they were. I was calling them the Illinis. And it was a total m...
The unfortunate thing is every single person, with the exception of my closest friend, Gale, said to me you are not gonna make it. Everybody told me that I wasn't gonna make it. Those same people now are saying, no, we never, we always knew. But that...
Let's welcome the Channel 13's People Are Talking, the fabulous Oprah Winfrey. I was given an assignment to co-host with Richard Sher who is still in Baltimore. My first interview was with the Carvel Ice-cream man, its mini play first, and Benny from...
I used to speak in the church all the time and the sisters in the front row fanning themselves would say to my grandmother, Hattie Mae, this child sure can talk. So if those sisters were alive today, well theyd be shocked because I'm still talking. I...
But there was a problem for the rubber growers. While Yunnans unique natural forests can survive on the valley slopes which stretch to the north, just one severe frost will kill off these delicate rubber trees. So Yunnans terrain puts a limit on how...
Living on a remote mountain range in south central Yunnan is one of the few remaining wild gibbon populations in China--the black-crested gibbons of Wuliangshan. They are confined to these forest mountains, so remote and steep that few hunters ever c...
As the flower's heat increases, a cloud of odor rises up. The foul perfume carries far and wide. It doesn't go unnoticed. Carrion beetles arrive on the scene. The beetles come in search of a feast of warm decaying flesh, but they've been tricked. Sli...
