This review was better than I expected. BTW - who's the chick doing all that running - looks like that girl from "Felicia's Journey" with Bob Hoskins. BTW - Bob Hoskins is dead, but didn't hang himself like in Felicia's Journey. Can't be Evangaline Lilly cause she's an Elf. Maybe it's Dana Kirkpatrick - the chick race car driver. If it is she should get a line where they're escaping in some starwars space ship where she says: "Can't this thing go any faster? Who made this piece of crap?" Then the ship goes to light speed and she has an orgasm like Meg Ryan in "Sleepless in Sheattle."

Dayumm. Like Meg Ryan meets Naomi Watts.

I've always thought there should be a special hell for people who dress up their pets, so I'm rather at a loss about what should happen to people who then make them perform scenes from Meg Ryan movies too...

This was originally in two parts, now in one: http://videosift.com/video/Notoriously-painful-Parkinson-interview-of-Meg-Ryan

I've killed the second one.
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Was this the first movie meg ryan and hanks paired up, for the million movie they've done together ?

>> ^kronosposeidon:

I don't know if Meg Ryan is a bitch or not, but who cares when you can have Helen Mirren. I might even see the remake of Arthur only because she's in it. But probably not. More than 5 minutes of Russell Brand and the exit sign looks mighty appealing. >> ^Yogi:
Why wouldn't the original Sally come do this? Oh right...she's a bitch.



She is...here's her on Parkinson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWEdi4uf7Eo

I don't know if Meg Ryan is a bitch or not, but who cares when you can have Helen Mirren. I might even see the remake of Arthur only because she's in it. But probably not. More than 5 minutes of Russell Brand and the exit sign looks mighty appealing. >> ^Yogi:

Why wouldn't the original Sally come do this? Oh right...she's a bitch.

He looks like Meg Ryan. Sure that's his mom?

>> ^RFlagg:

I was at first shocked as well, but Parkinson is the name of the interviewer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson_(TV_series)

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Oh! My bad. I didn't watch the video so...

Some wisdom teeth removal requires them to break the tooth to take it out so it doesn't damage the teeth next to it. So........they knock you out cold so you aren't staring at the guy who has a crooked crowbar like device in your mouth and is whacking it with a hammer to break your tooth.



>> ^nanrod:

So whats with all the general anesthetics? Did you guys have some dental issue that required it or were you just chicken. I had my wisdom teeth out under local anesthesia. It did require the dentist to stick that damn needle in about 20 times, but anythings better than coming out of a general.

>> ^Morganth:

I think I was more like this guy. I was 16. I remember waking up, thinking I was fine to walk, then having the nurse and my mom catch me as I fell out of the chair when they told me to stay down. The next thing I remember I'm in the car telling my mom all sorts of secrets. Then I was on the couch watching a movie with a bowl under my chin to collect the blood and spit that drooled out.


We must have gone to the same doctor, sort of like the Steve Martin character in Little Shop of Horrors.

My brother and I went in on the same day to have ours taken out. I went first, and he chickened out and never had the operation. I was so out of it that ten years went by before I found out that he never had the operation that day. The look on my face still makes him laugh.

^Hey, is there any need to insult me and aggrandize yourself? "But at least my comments on the matter involve more thought than yours." Jeesh.

I didn't miss his attempt to include the other guests -- however, that was way into the painful part and it wasn't the most scintillating topic. At that point, to me, the interview was way into Uncomfortable Land. Could Meg have expended more effort in playing into the vacuousness of that interchange? Yeah, she could have. I actually admire her for not doing so.

I take issue with how you characterize my description of his interview technique -- I did not say the things you ascribe to me. Rather than get into a back and forth with you, I'll just leave it at that.

My first post on this subject said that I thought that Part I showed a clash of cultures. I have watched some British talk shows and been surprised at how it appears that American celebrities can be ignorant of the nature of the shows that they are on. If you are correct that Parkinson typically does this kind of thing in an interview, I suspect that Ryan wasn't prepared for it.

I was a fan of Meg Ryan years ago -- her RomCom persona on-screen wore very thin over time. This interview, however uncomfortable it clearly was for both parties, has kindled my admiration for her. I liked how she discussed the characters, I thought she was pretty brave in her answers to his questions that clearly felt invasive to her. Yes, she was remarkably guarded and unprepared for his style of interviewing -- given that she started out behind the eight ball, I thought she hung in there really well and made some brave choices under the circumstances.

Well, this is all a tempest in a teapot. This happened years ago. And here we are discussing it as if it were Something Important.

>> ^bareboards2:
Holy crap!!!
I just clicked thru to You Tube and watched Part II of the interview.
Therein lies the legendary painful stuff.
My god, Parkinson was a complete invasive twit. He didn't ask questions -- he laid out his psychoanalysis of her in an incredibly invasive manner and got huffy when she didn't say "oh yes, oh my god, you are completely correct about me."
Watch the body language -- he leans into her more and more as he (mildly) attacks her, she leans back more and more, then he says -- well, you are certainly uncomfortable being interviewed.
I also read the article linked above. Parky says "she was so rude, she turned her back on the rest of the guests."
What a jerk. He never asked the other guests any questions, he never included the other guests, and somehow this is her fault?
What a twit.


I disagree with your analasys. Parkinson - the show - is about often 'invasive' questions, it's a show to get to the heart of the interviewee, and presumably they know this or they wouldn't attend. Parkinson is an old pro, and i seriously doubt that he would have asked ryan on the show under false pretences 'No invasive questions' and end up probing her invasively. I can't see that happening, i may be wrong, but at least my comments on the matter involve more thought than yours, and if you are right then it is by coincidence.

The body language of meg ryan reminds me 100% of how my step sister used to act towards my dad when she returned from HER dad's house. Her dad would feed her lines and lines of bullshit to turn her against my dad, so when she drove in a car in the front seat with me dad, she squeezed herself against the opposite door, legs crossed away from him, leaning away, and meg ryan looks exactly like that. What does that mean? Really, not a lot, she could just be comfortable in that position, but from my point of view it looks like she's trying very hard to get away from him at times in this interview. I believe parkinson leaned towards her and sat forward in his seat to close the distance and try to give a decent showing for people in the audience and at home - if he had sat back or god forbid mimicked her body language, sitting stance then the controversy would have raged even harder, and that's undeniable.

As for parkinson's comment about her being uncomfortable in the interview - well, you've missed a trick there. He is not sitting aggressively forward, waving his hands erratically to make her shy away from him and then saying "LOOK AT YOUR POSTURE YOU ARE CLEARLY UNCOMFORTABLE." For this you must strain your intellect and look past the literary meaning - the discomfort comes in the way of her brief answers whenever he asks her anything other than cosmetic. She reams off a speech when talking about her character in the film or the director of her latest film, but when asked about herself, she replies "no, not really" and other such briefeties.

Parky did actually ask her guests for interaction in the 2nd half of this interview, when he asked trinny and susanna (a vacuous british pairing who comment on other people's appearances with regard to style) about her shoes. She was complimented and basically said "uh thanks" and no more was said on the matter. No insight into shoes, no returned compliment (from my point of view this was a blessing). For some people this is a social faux pas, at least return the compliment. People see it as arrogant.

Anyway, this video is something that provides nothing other than potentially a desire to make you go and look for the 2nd half, it's a crap video if you ask me, but this appears to be the growing standard on the sift. Include a link or a message to the 2nd half and i'll retract these comments, but please put SOME thought into your sifts at least? I mean, you could at least watch them to make sure they contain the content which you summarise in the summary.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Parkinson, Parky, Meg Ryan, painful' to 'Parkinson, Parky, Meg Ryan, painful, in the cut, jane campion' - edited by Eklek

Interviewer Michael Parkinson considered this his most difficult TV moment and thought Ms. Ryan was rude towards other guests. Meg Ryan thought he acted like nut/a disapproving dad ( http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=598&id=521652006 )

Reading some comments on this interview on YouTube people are quite divided. I wonder whether men are more eager to defend Michael and women more eager to defend Meg? I generally see too personalities clashing held in prison by the eye of the camera and guests sitting with them. They both are defending their persona and interestingly play with this interviewer/interviewee situation.

Woohoo it gets sifted this time!:)