Conversations with "Crazy Guys"

with Mickey Rourke, Neil Young and Julian Schnabel
in Movies, TV & Theater, Music, Art & Design
on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 * * * * *

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Charlie Rose Special Summer Programming

Conversations with "Crazy Guys" Julian Schnabel, Mickey Rourke and Neil Young

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    2. doodah  06/01/2010 12:04 AM Report

      Old hippys are national treasures; especially this one :)

    3. doodah  06/01/2010 12:03 AM Report

      Old hippys are national treasures, especially this one. :)

    4. doodah  06/01/2010 12:03 AM Report

      Old hippys are national treasures, especially this one. :)

    5. doodah  06/01/2010 12:03 AM Report

      Old hippys are national treasures, especially this one. :)

    6. doodah  06/01/2010 12:03 AM Report

      Old hippys are national treasures, especially this one. :)

    7. doodah  06/01/2010 12:03 AM Report

      Old hippys are national treasures, especially this one. :)

    8. thekidd  05/28/2010 11:31 PM Report

      One of my absolute favorite interviews!!

      I've watched it twice now.

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    10. esantoro  09/12/2009 04:32 PM Report

      This interview has reminded me of Charlie's interview with Harold Pinter about a year ago. In that interview, Charlie suggested very naively that Pinter, with his great skill at expression, innuendo, and insight, should write a play that examines how America has gotten itself into its current economic, political, and social malaise.

      Not only is such a broad scope not Pinter's forte, but such a play would have to give journalists like Charlie Rose, as well as a slew of other folks in the national spotlight, a very sound beating.

      For a while now I have been entertaining myself with two ideas for just such plays as Mr. Rose seeks. One is entitled "The Pequod." Imagine Melville, Twain, DeLillo, Pynchon, Fitzgerald, Albee, Williams, Coover, Miller, O'Neil, Barth and others all thrown together with a healthy dash of Mel Brooks and Pinter. Shake, cap, and run the hell away as fast as you can for a four-hour romp that will leave you crying and pulling your hair out. It's a play about how national dysfunction is held together for nearly 240 years through myth, disinformed and misinformed history, deceit, stupidity, cruelty, inferiority, and a warped sense of national pride.

      This one is the whole enchilada. While thinking through some of its parts, I conceived a precursor, a shorter 90-minute diddly. This one is titled "The Trial of Charlie Rose." Of course, this play isn't an attack on Charlie Rose the person, as few of us have ever met him or even know him (we might even like him); it is an attack on Charlie Rose the public persona who poses as a journalist eager, willing, and interested to ask the real questions that need to be asked. This persona is on trial because it is integral to keeping a rickety "Pequod" afloat -- through naiveté, pseudo-pomposity, fear, and an unquenchable desire to be liked.

      Whenever I see Charlie interview Ivy League university presidents and their financial and corporate counterparts, I convulse in equal parts fear, joy, and loathing in the recognition that I have the perfect epigraph -- for both plays:

      "The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages [...] will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests."

      - Rothschild Brothers' of London communiqué to associates in New York June 25, 1863

    11. richie8811  09/02/2009 08:49 AM Report

      Mickey Rourke? Crazy Guy? LOL Kinda mean Charlie

    12. esantoro  08/31/2009 12:05 PM Report

      Neil Young is great, and I like Charlie. But Charlie's role in the larger scheme of things is to help grease the clockworks on Maggie's Farm. Much of Neil's music and Bob Dylan's music inspires one to find ways to alter the machinery on the farm, if not to put it out of commission altogether.

      One part of me enjoys hearing whatever Neil has to say, appreciates his passion, and is reaffirmed in convictions not to be "Denied." Another part can't help seeing GE and Halliburton peering over Charlie's shoulder and whispering in his ear, especially when a guest desires to set foot off the reservation, even in a subdued way:

      "Chuck, Old Boy, don't forget who buttas yo' bread. That's it. Nice and quietly. Bring 'im back. Bring 'im back. Quietly. Smoothly. Set 'im down. Now amp up the juice in the electric fence. Good, boy. Now get some sleep and prepare for tomorrow night's interview.

    13. robdverity  08/30/2009 09:54 PM Report

      Hey esantoro, you exposing an enviable talent, or what?

    14. rtb  08/30/2009 03:51 PM Report

      Often those who fall outside the mainstream are referred to as ‘crazy’. Why would someone focus on a single word at the beginning of an hour-long show?

    15. esantoro  08/29/2009 12:37 PM Report

      I, too, write songs when I am moved to tears.

      "But They're Still Singing for Something"

      They weren't necessarily singing for pepsi.

      They weren't necessarily singing for coke.

      This interview is testament

      That even the most vigilant among us

      Can get pulled into Charlie's

      Rosy Hegemonic dope.

      Ain't criticizing Neil Young.

      He's already doing his part.

      Ain't criticizing PBS.

      Moyers is its saving grace.

      All I'm saying is that GE and Haliburton are smiling

      Because Charlie, as always, has squeezed in his

      Qualifying clause.

      They weren't necessarily singing for pepsi.

      They weren't necessarily singing for coke.

      This interview is testament

      That there ain't nothing wrong with capitalism.

      It's been good to Charlie.

      It's been good to Neil.

      The only ones it hasn't been good to

      Are the ones talked about in the first

      15 minutes of this interview.

      So, then, WHAT'S THE POINT?

    16. robert  08/28/2009 04:02 PM Report

      why are they crazy guys? because they are artistic? deeper than the usual person on the show?

      not a good label Charlie