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I would agree. Hum - was the training fun you went through?
It only takes a few hours, and the coaches are extremely pleasant and good at their jobs. Most authors love doing publicity/promotion. For me, it's a short step below waterboarding. I hate doing publicity, avoid cameras, and I'm so unphotogenic that even the coaches were mistified and couldn't hide it when they played back the tapes. :floorlaugh: So naturally, I would end up being the one "gifted" with a 50-city satellite tour, to promote awareness of Women's Illiteracy which was the theme of my then-new novel.
The satellite tour means that for 3 days and nights, I sat in a little room staring fixedly at a blank black box and appeared as a "talking head" on 50 different television programs. That was awful, but not as bad as the lengthy live television programs like GMA and even CBS's Early Show.
Toward the end of the satellite tour, my driver felt so bad for nervous, tense, stressed-out me that when he picked me up one morning, there was a heavenly NY bagle and a nice glass of fresh orange juice in the back seat. He'd brought me bagels before, but never the orange juice. I don't like orange juice. He urged me to take a little sip anyway. I don't like orange juice, but a shot of vodka certainly alters the flavor. That day, I did the best, most relaxed string of interviews ever...and for the remaining days, too. Guess why? LOL
I can imagine its probably very difficult to see yourself behave in an ugly manner. How introspective that lesson sounds. Like a bit of therapy, right?
For normal people, yes it would be, a little. But I doubt it had any therapeudic effect on CA. It's purely a bit of an "acting" lesson. When she's confronted with someone who challenges her, I think she will quickly revert.
However, you'd have thought that someone on maybe her lawyer (pick one! ha) would have put this coaching in front of them long ago.
I am SURE many people tried to suggest it in the past but she probably had to see herself in that depo to decide to go for it. Although--she smiled for the first time and most of the time throughout that depo, but it looked more like a smirk, so maybe she'd had a little coaching by then and a graduate course next.
Its nice to see on one hand, but on the other, it's a little late in the day to change the image she and GA have so eloquently painted of themselves and this circus. MOO.![]()
For my part, I liked seeing Cindy just the way she was in the depo and in the past interviews. At least she was authentic, and so you could tell who she really is, and what she's really like.