# 60 Minutes hosts blast interviewing Actor/Actresses **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554 "2003-09-04T17:12:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/1 "2003-09-04T17:12:27Z")
> **[Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines](https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=%2Fap%2Ftv_60_minutes_celebrities)** > > The latest news and headlines from Yahoo! News. Get breaking news stories and in-depth coverage with videos and photos. > [@](#): > > NEW YORK - If you see some celebrity interviews on “60 Minutes,” the correspondents are probably holding their noses. Morley Safer, Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl didn’t hide their distaste Wednesday for the hottest trend in their line of work. Celebrity chats are such winners for newsmagazines that NBC and ABC this summer arranged for help from entertainment news shows in landing them. > > “This cloying by various television reporters for the right to interview the slut du jour just becomes kind of a silly joke, something out of `Saturday Night Live (news - Y! TV),’” Safer said at a panel discussion arranged by the National Television Academy So… are they saying they don’t like interviewing actors/actresses? 😉 **slut du jour** Heh. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/2 "2003-09-04T17:32:29Z")
Slut du jour **is** pretty funny all on it’s own, but imagining Morley Safer saying it is even funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/3 "2003-09-04T18:53:13Z")
I agree. I read this peice this morning and nodded my understanding and thanks. The interviews can only be so interesing, after all. The stars are just people with a lot of money. What they do in entertaining, but not special. Sucking up air time on a heavy news program with interviews of folks who have nothing to do with anything based in reality is pretty stupid. Though considering the crap most people tend to watch these days that’s makes it on par with everything else. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/4 "2003-09-05T00:14:08Z")
Celebrity interviews aren’t always bad. One of them even inspired a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51892&highlight=Peter+OToole) all its own. (Though, admittedly, it wasn’t the most active thread of all time.) ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/5 "2003-09-05T00:19:25Z")
I reckon my opinion regarding celebrity interviews is pretty common amongst the dopers: If the celeb is somehow related to the subject, I’ll check it out. In other words, I’m interested in what Kevin Smith thinks about _Gigli_. I don’t really need to know what he thinks about gun control. ---
**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/6 "2003-09-05T00:22:45Z")
Ya gotta figure though, from the celebs point of view, it’s got to be annoying answering the same questions over and over again. True, they get paid sh\*tloads of money, but it’s got to get to a point were it really grates on you. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/7 "2003-09-05T01:20:03Z")
Considering Safer’s pieces he has done on modern art, the “slut du jour” comment is perfectly in character for him. But it is pretty funny, I may have to borrow it. I admit my heart sinks a bit when I see the opening of _60 Minutes_ and I see that one of the stories is a celebrity puff piece. I watched the George Lucas segments before Episode I came out like a good little fanboy, but kept wondering “Why is this on 60 Minutes?” Even crap like NBC’s _Dateline_ seems cheaped by the _Access Hollywood_ pieces and reporters turning up on there. Pat O’Brien makes my short list of people who may possibly be the antichrist. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/8 "2003-09-05T02:37:17Z")
Hey, Slut Du Jour is a fine actress and doesn’t deserve to have her name dragged through the mud like this! ---
**Author:** ![Nanook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nanook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/9 "2003-09-05T02:58:02Z")
Who cares? ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/10 "2003-09-05T05:17:36Z")
It would put Larry Zeiger(King) out of business. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/11 "2003-09-05T13:02:20Z")
Most of the time when an actor/actress is interviewed is the only time I watch 60 Minutes, or 20/20, because the news shows are so boring, or uninteresting. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-hosts-blast-interviewing-actor-actresses/199554/12 "2003-09-05T13:05:07Z")
Man. And I thought this thread was going to be about me. _sigh_😉