Monday, September 2, 2013

David Frost, R.I.P.


 “He’s turned his life around.
      He used to be depressed and miserable.
           Now he’s miserable and depressed.”

Sir David Paradine Frost (1939-2013)
British journalist, very smart guy

David Frost was, very self-consciously, a pretty smart guy. He was very entertaining, if your taste runs to very self-consciously pretty smart guys being themselves.



I suspect that David Frost was almost always being himself and was never lonely, at least not much.

He was a master of laconic verbal sparring, and rose to lofty heights when he interviewed the rich, the famous and the otherwise. His Nixon interviews are educational.


I don’t know who he was describing in the aphorism quoted above. Poor fellow.

David Frost, requiescat in pace.



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