On Camera

While watching the press screening of Fahrenheit 9/11, we were being filmed--a lot of photographers and camerapeople, interviewers with big ol' microphones (macrophones?), and even filming done during the screening--which is how I got on NTV yesterday, at least for a moment, as they showed the crowd watching the film (I'm just left of center, in black with glasses, in the photo at right). I didn't get interviewed by them, mostly because by the time I got to their position, they had Dave Spector, a long-time foreign "talento" in Japan and commentator on just about everything, and they stayed with him for quite a while.

I did, however, get nabbed by CNN and got interviewed by the Tokyo Bureau Chief Atika Schubert. I forgot to ask at the time when the segment might be filmed, but later contacted the CNN office, who said that the press screening story would be edited early Friday (Japan time), and if it gets aired, might be on American Morning, on Friday evening in Japan, Friday morning in the U.S., and possibly the rest of the day as a filler piece for the straight news shows on CNN. No guarantee I'll be in it, but if you see an overweight, long-haired goofball dressed in black, you'll know who it is.

By the way, F-9/11 is set to break the $100 million mark by Friday....