April 16, 2011

is it correct ?

Imagine a talk show where instead of listening to the self-promoting chatter of a Charlie Sheen or Donald Trump, you watched Mohandas Gandhi as he nervously talked about birth control before getting into a heated exchange with fellow guest Margaret Sanger over the concept of Planned Parenthood.
Far-fetched? Not really.
It was done about 30 years ago, on "Meeting of Minds," a television show that was the brainchild of the late television auteur and renaissance man Steve Allen (1921–2000), the originator of "The Tonight Show."
For one hour each week, viewers could flip the dial to PBS and watch such diverse historical figures as Plato and Martin Luther or Cleopatra and Teddy Roosevelt sit down, chit-chat and do the 'talk show thing.'

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