where's that box of pins...
Apr. 3rd, 2003 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Have I mentioned recently how much I diskile Chrissy Iley?
No? Hmm... She's currently working for the Radio Times. Basically I don't like her interview technique. She takes interesting people, like Eddie Izzard, and makes them fantastically boring, usually by asking innane questions and talking about herself the entire way through the interview.
("Does he miss shopping for makeup? I feel awkward as soon as the words are out; it's impossible to be girlie with him. He gives a dismissive answer and looks bored."... well fuckin' d'uh, he may be a transvestite, it doesn't mean he wants to discuss Rimmel's new spring collection with you...)
I miss the Andrew Duncan interviews, because he never actually talked about himself when he wrote up his features. When he wrote about them, famous people were less often boring and more just regular people. Sometimes they said boring stuff, but at least they seemed real. Illey, she seems to mention herself pretty much every few paragraphs and I'll be darned if she doesn't make out pretty much everyone to be either having a massive sulk of some kind or totally two-faced.
I remember when she was working for the Sunday Times Style supplement and her column on "Never trust..." which made her fantastically unpopular with pretty much everyone.
(Never trust... a woman with long hair... women who don't wear makeup... men who wear aftershave... people with dogs... people with cats... people who eat fish... whatever the heck she felt like berating for a column)
To the point where the Sunday Times ran a competition to win a Chrissy Iley doll and a tin of pins, if you could tell them in less than 20 words exactly why you wanted them.
No? Hmm... She's currently working for the Radio Times. Basically I don't like her interview technique. She takes interesting people, like Eddie Izzard, and makes them fantastically boring, usually by asking innane questions and talking about herself the entire way through the interview.
("Does he miss shopping for makeup? I feel awkward as soon as the words are out; it's impossible to be girlie with him. He gives a dismissive answer and looks bored."... well fuckin' d'uh, he may be a transvestite, it doesn't mean he wants to discuss Rimmel's new spring collection with you...)
I miss the Andrew Duncan interviews, because he never actually talked about himself when he wrote up his features. When he wrote about them, famous people were less often boring and more just regular people. Sometimes they said boring stuff, but at least they seemed real. Illey, she seems to mention herself pretty much every few paragraphs and I'll be darned if she doesn't make out pretty much everyone to be either having a massive sulk of some kind or totally two-faced.
I remember when she was working for the Sunday Times Style supplement and her column on "Never trust..." which made her fantastically unpopular with pretty much everyone.
(Never trust... a woman with long hair... women who don't wear makeup... men who wear aftershave... people with dogs... people with cats... people who eat fish... whatever the heck she felt like berating for a column)
To the point where the Sunday Times ran a competition to win a Chrissy Iley doll and a tin of pins, if you could tell them in less than 20 words exactly why you wanted them.
