RIP David Frost: The TV Host Who Captured a President
David Frost, who died of a heart attack on Aug. 31, was an on-camera natural who gave President Richard Nixon an unofficial public trial
(and) was much more than the man who interviewed President Nixon. Frost, who was 74 when he died, had a career in the U.K. spanning the possibilities of TV presenting: satire (That Was the Week That Was), entertainment hosting, and serious political interviews. But his signature program, the series of interviews with the ex-President in 1977, which became the most-watched political interview ever, combined the many aspects of his career: it was part newsmaker interrogation, part psychological inquiry, part drama, and a good part theater.
I'm sure the trauma of Nixon meant a lot more to USians than elsewhere, but to me Frost was a man who arrived promisingly with TW3; consolidated brilliantly with the Frost Report and then wandered off into irrelevance.
He was a groundbreaker on British TV
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
