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Michael Parkinson

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Also known as Sir Michael Parkinson

English television and radio personality (1935-2023)

Person · Open Library

Works
63

Top works

  • On Golf
  • Michael Parkinson on Football
  • Amazing Audition
  • Thames Path Walk
  • ASP. NET MVC in a Day

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Chile
Active from
1988
Active to
1995
el vinopapel floreado

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
117
Total plays
806

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Quotes

  • Parkinson: [From his introduction, quoting a theatre critic] She is especially telling in projecting sluttish eroticism.
  • Parkinson: You are, in quotes, a serious actress [makes air quote fingers]Helen Mirren: In quotes? [...] What do you mean in quotes? How dare you.Parkinson: Serious actress [...] as opposed to an unserious actress.
  • Parkinson: Do you find it to be fact that, what could be best described as your equipment [...] hinders you in that pursuit [of being considered a serious actress]?Helen Mirren: I'd like you to explain what you mean by my equipment in greater detail.Parkinson: Your physical attributes.Mirren: You mean my fingers?
  • I happen to be a male chauvinist pig who loves women and enjoys flirting with women.I also think a lot of women watch the show but not for my bedroom eyes.
  • This accusation that I was 'soft' implies that you get more out of people by being aggressive. But the people I interview aren't criminals or child molesters, so why on earth should I act like an interrogator? [...] I relax the guests, I am a great listener.
  • [On the 1975 Mirren interview] I don't want to [apologise]. Nor does she. I don’t regard what happened there as being anything other than good television. [...] There is no need to apologise, not at all. She didn't want to do an interview and after about 10 minutes, I didn't want to interview her. There's no problem, it's not World War III for God’s sake.

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