UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I'm underpaid, but it beats not having a job at all. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: You believe that you're fairly paid? OBAMA: It was the first time anyone had really bothered to ask ordinary people directly what work was like for them. What you want to find - I suppose the word is quintessential truth, the essence of a truth. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: There is no one way to begin. Which was a chronicle of people from every walk of life and what it was like for them to work. NINA SIMONE: (Singing) Oh, sinner man, where you going to run to? One of them, which came out in 1974, was called "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do." Several years later, one of the readers of that book was a young man named Barack Obama.īARACK OBAMA: Sometime in college, I came across this book called "Working" by Studs Terkel. He wrote several best-selling books built around these conversations. He interviewed people but became famous not by interviewing the rich and famous, but by talking and listening to ordinary folks. Our TV critic David Bianculli has seen all four episodes and has a review.ĭAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: Studs Terkel came out of Chicago as host of a long-running radio show. Tomorrow Netflix premieres a new four-part documentary series called "Working: What We Do All Day." It's a modern take on Studs Terkel's influential 1970s book of interviews, also called "Working." This TV version is hosted and narrated by Barack Obama.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |