[David] Carr (whom I employed six years ago at Inside.com) is a quirky, entertaining, singular writer. I was pleasantly surprised when the paper of record hired and then promoted him to media columnist. But I was flabbergasted when they gave him a movie-awards blog (the Carpetbagger) and—the Times!—let him invent a weekly Web-video spot as a goofy man-on-the-street and celebrity-on-the-red-carpet interviewer. He's produced three dozen so far. There's nothing else like them in mainstream media. He is preternaturally perfect for the Web—a friendly, wisecracking 50-year-old character with a Minnesota rasp, the very opposite of self-serious.

That's Kurt Andersen, praising the NYT's David Carr to the heavens in this week's New York. Hoepfully, David will ask some of those entertaining, singular questions for which he's so well-regarded a couple weeks from now when he interviews Kurt in a very special Times Talk!

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TimesTalks - Media, Politics & "Heyday" with Kurt Andersen [TicketWeb]

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