From: Gooch McCracken
Category: Amis
Date: 7/22/99
Time: 9:09:28 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.96
[Poster's note: Here's another thing I found in Lexis-Nexis. From *The Daily Telegraph*. October 13, 1990. No wonder Geoff Norcott flaps around this place like a rabid pterodactyl. His own company rejected an Amis television interview just because a bunch of ignorant putzes were unfamiliar with Amis.]
*ANON AMIS* / BY ANONYMOUS
The novelist Martin Amis must be feeling a little sore following the cancellation of a television interview due to widespread public apathy. His chat with ITV's *This Morning* programme bit the dust after a straw poll of viewers revealed that only three percent had heard of the author. The telephone poll was carried out after producers at Granada Television got cold feet. "I'm not bothered", Amis tells me, wearily. "It's not likely to be much more---unless you're Charles Dickens." To add insult to injury, though, less celebrated authors including Fay Weldon and Alan Coren have made it on to the show. Amis counters: "They're on television much more than I am, which is the modern measure of fame." Does Amis, though, consider himself famous? "Not in the modern sense", he replies, cryptically.