RE: Fwd: Re: the today show (my 2 cents)

[Fyrclwn@xxxxxx]

maria callas <vocals7851@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>You may be right...after all, I am a psychologist :)
>I don't know, I just get the distinct feeling that
>Plant either doesn't like/gets irritated by Page, or
>is plain jealous of him or wishes he and zeppelin
>would just go away...??

mmmmmmm......the psych wars.  LOL  i didn't get that impression--just that he 
didn't really 
want to be there.  seemed to me that he felt like the questions were silly, the 
interviewer 
was lame, and he'd rather be somewhere else doing something interesting.  to 
me, it looked 
like the whole 
slumping-in-the-chair-ankle-crossed-over-the-knee-contemptuous-smirk-on-the-face
 
attitude was directed toward Lauer (as in, "wow.  you really don't have a clue, 
do you, little 
boy?  how many obvious questions are you going to ask?  no, really.")  didn't 
really get any 
vibes directed towards Page or Jones (except that maybe he was glad they were 
there to answer 
the questions so he could just sit and look amusedly pained)  

regarding what i said earlier about the seating arrangement---wasn't meaning it 
was a "message" 
from the guys, but that it was probably some front office exec's brainchild. 
 have the guys been 
known to play little mind games with the fans?  yeah.  sure.  of course. 
 always.  but this was 
just too crass for that.  it was a clobber-you-over-the-head, "see--they like 
each other!  
they really like each other!" type of thing.  trust me....you don't just get to 
sit wherever 
you want to on interview shows.  everything is pre-arranged & orchestrated by 
pop-psych types 
for the "proper mood" and to send "subliminal messages" to the viewers.  of 
course, they don't 
tell the interviewee(s) that.  it's always something about the lighting or 
mikes or the camera 
set-up. 

man, would i love to see the whole thing!  Jimmy was obviously stoked, and 
probably had a LOT cut; 
Jones was mostly quiet, but when he talked, he talked (again, more cuts, i'll 
bet); and Plant 
only got one pithy comment in (tons of cuts there, guarenteed! LOL).  ah well, 
maybe someday 
(soon!?!) we'll see the Uncut Today Show being treed.  ; )

Lauer and Couric got one thing right---they weren't worthy.  : /

the fireclown