Brothers & Sisters

I’ve done two celebrity interviews in my life. The first was with Shari Belafonte Harper back during her 15 minutes of fame in the ’80s. The other was with Billy Ray Cyrus during the heyday of “Achy Breaky Heart.” (Yes, I can tell my children now, I met Hannah Montana’s dad!) Neither of those experiences left me feeling particularly confident of my journalistic abilities, or even my powers of speech, and a post on the blog TV Squad today is giving me bad star encounter flashbacks. Joel Keller writes of an interview he did with Sally Field at an ABC party, during which — maybe because of the noise, maybe because she was tired of talking to reporters, maybe because she’s been doing interviews since she was a teenager and has already heard every possible question 100 times — she made it pretty clear that she wished he would shut up and go away. Ah, yes, I remember that feeling. Which is why I now happily blog and try not to have to talk to anybody about anything ever.