Venerable TV host
Charlie Rose ret urns
to the round table
BloBacok min
It’s just another wee
Rose, although for
in the life of Charl
once in a lifetime.
ger to get former Soviet lead
on his program, The Charlie
finally succeeded.
“He’s well aware of the sh
conversation with Arrive. “H
gram shortly after it began, w
I hadn’t spoken with him afte
happened since, that I felt we
So we’ve tried to keep a conv
bringing him back.” Then, ju
Gorbachev’s people call: He
Monday. Would you have tim
Have time? The question
universe. There isn’t an hour
plane he won’t take. “There
whom I’d leap to do in a minu
Mandela, Philip Roth, Tony
yes, bin Laden of course,” Rose says. “Mikhail
Gorbachev is one of those people.”
BY DENNIS MCCAFFERTY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY EVAN KAFKA
