"Puff Graham"*

First of all, who knew that Woody Allen had his own talk show and second, that he once interviewed Billy Graham, whose charm and manner of speaking, by the way, reminds me of a certain Bill Clinton**...


(I love the part where Woody says he will try to convert Graham to agnosticism by the end of the show.)

(from VillageVoice's blog via Robotwisdom's deliciousness)


There is apparently some controversy surrounding the Reverend 's depiction on the cover of TIME this week:
See the horns? Though, I was expecting to learn that he was yet another hypocritical preacher but upon further research, he is remarkably unimpeachable. Quite an amazing guy. (He was even a registered Democrat, for what that's worth. He is apparently quite apolitical.)

* "Graham received assistance from powerful news mogul William Randolph Hearst, whose interest in Graham is a mystery; the two never met. Most observers believe that Hearst appreciated Graham's patriotism, appeals to youth, and thought that Graham would be helpful in promoting his conservative anti-communist views. Hearst sent a telegram to his newspaper editors reading "Puff Graham" during Billy Graham's late 1949 Los Angeles crusade. The result of the increased media exposure from Hearst's newspaper chain and national magazines caused the crusade event to run for eight weeks--five weeks longer than planned. Henry Luce put him on the cover of TIME in 1954.
-- From the Wikipedia entry on Graham

** Speaking of Clinton, when then-First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Clinton invited him to lunch as he arrived in Little Rock for a crusade in 1989, Graham declined and said, "I don't eat with beautiful women alone" and met her in a hotel dining room instead.