> Yeah, another great interview. Dery has come up before here. I was
> looking in the archive to see if I posted anything. No, but there were
> often references to him. Can that guy talk or what?
I like when he calls Dylan a "confabulated self-fabricated self" and Doug says "starting with his name".
Here's the Eartha Kitt episode someone mentioned earlier:
[...]
No one in Obama’s entourage would care to see a repeat of the 1968 incident in which singer Eartha Kitt, invited to a White House luncheon, told Lady Bird Johnson—the president’s wife—to her face, “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed [in Vietnam]. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.”
[...]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/meda-j01.shtml