Joe Bob Briggs  Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX  Have you
ever noticed that, when the media do interviews, they almost
always ask questions about...  a) things that happened 30 years
ago and don't matter anymore, like why the Beatles broke up, or
b) stuff that nobody wanted to know in the first place, like
what Henry Kissinger's favorite baseball team is, or  c)
astrological bullstuff, like what Charlie Sheen thinks he'll be
doing 10 years from now?  I'm what's known in the biz as a "bad
interview." Every once in a while, somebody will be having such
a pathetically slow news day that they'll try to interview me.
At least half of my answers will be, "I don't know anything
about that."  And you hear this little catch in the reporter's
voice, like, "Why is this guy being such a jerk?"  But the truth
is, I don't know anything about that. One time a reporter asked
me what I thought of Jerry Garcia. Until that moment, I didn't
really think anything of Jerry Garcia. I knew who he was. I saw
him one time. So