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Canadian interviewer George Stroumboulopolos starts his CNN show tonight. He's interviewed Lightfoot 2x on his CBC show. This is what he has to say about Lightfoot:
'You bask in his glow but you can’t become him'
“I love having good conversations and that's what I wanna do on this program,” George Stroumboulopoulos told CNN’s Christine Romans and John Berman on “Starting Point.”
“I think an interviewer's kind of like an emotional archaeologist,” continued Stroumboulopoulos, “so if we can dig up and find some bones and then over time you kind of re-create the skeleton and maybe understand something that happened in the past and look towards the future.”
Strombo talked about his early influences.
“Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Chuck D, and Joe Strummer from The Clash,” he said. “Those are the people that I look toward. And Patti Smith.”
CNN’s John Berman asked why Canada’s own Gordon Lightfoot didn’t make the cut.
“Gordon Lightfoot was unachievable,” explained Strombo. “That’s like saying ‘Can you become a deity?’ We can’t. So with Gordon you just admire. You bask in his glow but you can’t become him.”
George starts on CNN tonite!
