Re: MTV raw footage interview

[ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)]

[From Ron Hill's posting of the unedited MTV interview]

>    85. MTV: Kate is interviewed by J. J. Jackson for the U.S. cable
>rock-video channel.

As you say below, the actual interviewer is NOT J. J. Jackson.  His
voice is entirely different.

>        I: Well that's what everyone around the office is saying, for
>instance, like saying "well she should play Tess the Dervervilles" this
>English classic.  [Kate stiffels a laugh] 

That's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", by Thomas Hardy, of course.

>[K:]  So it was really designing something that was a
>cross between an Akatan [???] gun and a pipe organ. 

She used the British term for an anti-aircraft gun, whatever it is.

>[K:]  In fact, the only well filmed piece
>of dance I think I've ever seen was [???? anybody know who she's talking about
>here???] and I think that's because she was so involved in it that it was so
>good.

Kate says, "Twyla Tharp's 'Catherine Wheel'."  It took me a while to
figure this out, too!  "The Catherine Wheel" had music by David Byrne,
and, as Kate says, choreography by Twyla Tharp.


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