Marc Pachter: The art of the interview

http://www.ted.com Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the secret to a great interview and shares extraordinary stories of talking with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce and more.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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[Andrew Reeder]

this was interesting and worth watching. ted is obviously getting more popular cause the comments are starting to get just as stupid as the rest of the idiot comments on youtube

[BenTMLaing]

Holy Hair Implants---

[HeadGirl]

OMFG THANK YOU! NOW I'm staring at the mans head! And not listening to him, I will listen to him and not look at him next time.

[marcdaddy33]

good vid

[miloibrado]

It's one of those things that only get distracting once someone points them out.

God I wish didn't look at the comments.

[orangepeelpeel]

Marc Pachter is interesting and you can see that he's humble. I got a lot out of what he had to say. He's an inspiration

[zahedmirza]

woah!!. i got it..

[TobyEllisSongwriter]

Funny how he mentions Frost v Nixon. As a 17 year old Brit, I only know Frost as the host of celebrity day time show "through the keyhole". Couldnt beleive it when I heard about the critical political waves he had caused!

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Great vid btw! Cheers.

[jjmm112]

nchinn. LOL!!.

[Ngozichi Omekara]

enough with the hair plugs!

[eatingperson]

Wow, I just can't take this guy seriously with those hair plugs. What is he thinking? He's bald! Who does he think he's fooling?

"I'm not bald at all, just look at all these perfectly planted rows of hair!"

[Jaybeat2k6]

Yup. It looks unnatural. xD