never. jimmy cagney. orson welles. jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the fact is that you re a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he? why is that? number one, he s ugly. his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, to all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. it s not a question. rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you are born into a mining family, you followed your dad s foo
for the rest of his career. but at least myjudgment was right. very down to earth, very straightforward, very grounded, a wonderful marriage, lovely family. part of him couldn t believe what what had happened to him. and the other half enjoyed it. and but he never lost sight of his roots, which were pretty well delineated by him on many programmes. live now to gloria hunniford, presenter of rip off britain on bbc one, as well as a myriad of other programmes through the years. gloria, you knew michael parkinson for many of those years. what are your thoughts right now? my thoughts toda are your thoughts right now? my thoughts today are just your thoughts right now? my thoughts today are just sadness, your thoughts right now? my thoughts today are just sadness, because - your thoughts right now? my thoughts today are just sadness, because in - your thoughts right now? my thoughts today are just sadness, because in a l today are just sadness, because in a weird, naive way, i
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