Legendary listener (Studs Terkel) Turns 95

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: CNN

Legendary listener turns 95

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- American original Studs Terkel, the author and oral historian who for decades gave a voice to working men and women, turned 95 Wednesday. But don't worry about his memory. He's sharp as a tack.

In fact, he's the one doing the worrying -- about what he describes as the memory loss of a country he suggests may be more interested in the transgressions of celebrities than more substantive affairs such as the politics of the Bush administration, which he characterizes as a "burlesque show."

"Look at the headlines, about how football player Tank Johnson went home to his mama, about Paris Hilton," said a frail but ever-tenacious Terkel during an interview in his home on the north side of Chicago this week.

Terkel, a legendary Chicagoan, won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1984 book, "The Good War," an oral history of World War II.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/05/16/terkel.birthday.reut/index.html

[burrowowl]

1. Amy Goodman has a good Birthday OP-ED for Studs!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/16/1217/

[Jed Dilligan]

2. Please correct subj. line spelling nt.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. done

i knew better. oops

[ProudDad]

3. This man is a WORLD TREASURE

Remember we're nearly ALL WORKING CLASS!!!

And we're currently losing the class war.

[barb162]

11. And he's cool to boot!

[man4allcats]

4. I was listening to Goodman's interview with him

on NPR this evening as I was driving home. Nineteen miles in Houston rush hour traffic is a long ride so I had a long time to listen. The guy is incredible! At 95, he is a veritable walking encyclopedia! He remembers not only names but also the details of interviews, stories and events he was involved in well beyond half a century ago. Nothing gets by him politically and/or socially. He's right on top of it. I have to say I was amazed. I wish my brain were wired like that. Happy Birthday, Studs!

:thumbsup: :toast: :thumbsup: :toast: :thumbsup: :toast:

[gratuitous]

6. The interviewer Larry King will never be

Happy birthday, Mr. Terkel.

[Cha]

7. Okay..Studs is an

inspiration! I saw him on Phil Donahue before the big FIRE from msnbc in 2002 or early 2003.

Like Studs is saying.."IT'S THE MEDIA, STUPID!"

[bleever]

8. Studs Terkel is already carved in stone above

the Illinois State Library building's exterior, along with people like Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters and other literary fountains of inspiration.

May I live to be as sharp as Studs at the age of 95.

[magellan]

9. Audio stream & transcript of Amy Goodman's birthday interview with Studs

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/16/140218

I watched it on tv -- twice. What an inspiration he is. Happy birthday, Studs!

[Mojambo]

10. Read the headline. For a second, thought he had died.

Glad to hear he's still kickin'.

[offthecurve]

12. Long may he wave!

:loveya:

[progressoid]

13. Wow - Studs, 95!!

[Bigmack]

14. "Working" is required reading. nt