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His style doesn't work for everything and everyone, but IMO Stern is easily one of the most accomplished interviewers in history. I've been spending a fair amount of time with Howard, virtually speaking, and his interviews with Paul McCartney. He's the only one, other than sort of kind of Stanley Tucci, who's ever knocked Paul off of his standard script and into more interesting territory.

Stern is criminally underrated as an interviewer. I don't know if it's deliberate or unconscious (I'd guess the latter), but either way.

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Apr 14Liked by Oleg Kagan

'Hold on to your salad bowls' - I smell the birth of an HMF catchphrase...

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thank goodness for all your family that Michael is better - did they know for sure what the complication was?

clearly a great topic, given that you got people commenting here. what comes to my mind is 'interview vs interrogation vs 'disguised propaganda' and hence 'you say potato, I saw potata'...

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