I love Tavis! That is 1 cool dude! I am proud of him & all of his accomplishments. I remember him like yesterday when he hosted BET Talk which changed 2 BET Tonight. My top 5 shows is:
1.) ALL of Prince's appearances are tied.
2.) James Taylor
3.) Tracy Morgan
4.) Patti Smith
5.) Dee Dee Bridgewater
I also have 2 give an O/T shout out & R. I.P. (rest in power) 2 1 of my greatest influences in Hip Hop. 4mer Gangstarr rapper...GURU. He have once stated that Prince was 1 of his influences. REAL Hip Hop will never die. 1 love!
Mike
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> The public-TV host has talked with Prince and Sara Jane Olson. Now
> it's our turn.
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> By NEAL JUSTIN, Star Tribune
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> Last update: April 19, 2010 - 10:22 AM
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> Tavis Smiley has good reason these days to personify his last name.
> After more than a year in purgatory -- aka the 4:30 a.m. slot on TPT
> Life -- "Tavis Smiley" has returned to its 11:30 p.m. slot (repeats will continue to air at 12:30 p.m.).
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> That's hardly a high-profile channel or time period, but it's still a nice excuse to catch up with the 45-year-old host about his landmark
> interviews with famous Minnesotans, the reason he never wants to step
> into Brian Williams' shoes and why he resists filling a whole hour of
> TV.
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> Q If you were introducing yourself to someone who didn't know who
> you were, what two or three shows would you have them watch?
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> A That's a good question. No one has ever asked me that before. In
> terms of showing our range, I would pull the James Taylor interview out
> because he doesn't do many interviews and he really opened up -- the
> good, the bad and the ugly. I'd also pick Prince, just because he
> doesn't do interviews. I call him an iconic enigma. It was something to
> have him talk about his childhood for the first time ever, the illness
> that he had as a child. We're friends, so there was a comfort level
> there. Thirdly, I'd pick the prime-time special we recently did on Dr.
> Martin Luther King Jr. and his thoughts on the Vietnam War. That show
> gave people a better understanding of what motivates me, what matters to me.
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> Q When you're not doing the talk show, you spend a lot of time
> pushing your agenda. Can you be both an advocate and a journalist? A
> It's all about the venue. When I'm on public TV or on the radio, I am
> the inquisitor. I want to learn, just like the listener and viewer. But
> at other times, like when I'm on "Meet the Press" or am invited to
> speaking engagements, I can expound on my own viewpoints. That's
> precisely why I could never do what Brian Williams does. I have too many opinions about what's wrong in the world, and being a news anchor
> wouldn't allow me to address those issues.
> Q You mentioned Prince. Another Minnesotan who played a major role
> in your career was Sara Jane Olson, the former Symbionese Liberation
> Army member. Your exclusive interview with her in 2001 really put you in the spotlight. How did you get it?
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> A It was the easiest and yet the biggest get I've ever had. Turns
> out her daughters were viewers of BET and they got in the habit of
> watching my show. They literally said to their mom that when it came
> time to go to trial, and if you should decide to do interviews, that
> this Tavis guy was really very good. When I was contacted by her lawyer, the first thing I asked myself is: Who is Sara Jane Olson? After I
> started digging into it, I realized that everyone wanted that one --
> Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric.
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> Q My major criticism of the show is that it's only a half-hour.
> Isn't that limiting, especially when you have two or three guests on?
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> A That was deliberate. I knew that we would mostly be paired with
> Charlie Rose and I wanted our program to be diametrically different from his. Charlie's white; I'm black. He's East Coast; I'm West Coast;
> Charlie's an hour; I'm going to be a half-hour. For these seven years,
> it's worked rather well. I've thought about bumping up to an hour, but I think that if you leave the audience wanting more, you've conducted a
> great interview. I see that too often conversations go on too long. If a guest doesn't live up to the promise, you're stuck with him for that
> hour.
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