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The Interview
Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
Most of the celebrity writers despise being interviewed since it is an “unwarranted intrusion†into their lives. They feel that an interview diminishes them in one way or the other. Rudyard Kipling was quite scared of it. He called it to be immortal and a crime and an assault on his person. H.G. Wells referred it as an ordeal and compares it like “thumb prints on his windpipe.â€
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What do you understand by the expression “Thumbprints on his windpipes?”
Who in today’s world, our chief source of information about personalities?
Do you think Umberto Eco likes being interviewed? Give reasons for your opinion.
How does Eco find the time to write so much?
What was distinctive about Eco’s academic writing style?
Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’?
Talk about any interview you watched on television or read in a newspaper. How did it add to your understanding of the celebrity, the interviewer and the field of the celebrity?
The medium you like best for an interview, print, radio, or television.
Every famous person has a right to his or her privacy. Interviewers sometimes embarrass celebrities with very personal questions.
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