I don't watch a lot of celebrity interview type shows, as they are mostly dull, but flipping channels, I spotted Letterman interviewing Hoffman and DeNiro. I came in halfway through and got hypnotized by the mix of awkward and charming going on. I wish my mother could see it, but the drugs have rendered her so deaf that even with the hearing aid, TV is hard for her to follow and she has trouble processing subtitles while following the visuals, so closed captioning isn't the help to her it sometimes is to me. This was so up her alley though. She loved Actor's Studio and Cavet and this interview reminded me of those, which i do find interesting. The thing that fascinated me most was that I couldn't tell if the actors liked each other. They had a married couple familiarity, that Letterman remarked on, but Mr. Hoffman in particular is so hard to read, even for me. How much is real and isn't, and what the true emotion behind the tone is, is so hard to read.
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