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Such as david bowie and paul mccartney. And in 2001 Victoria Beckham let slip that her nickname for husband david was goldenballs. 0ur arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Dont you get fed up of each other . Oh, yes, yes. I call him golden balls, you know, now. Did you ever say, you dirty rat . Never. Jimmy cagney. Orson welles. Jimmy stewart. These were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. The fact is that youre a crowd puller a...

Through to interviewing bette midler, you needed somebody who could go from serious journalism talk about highbrow topics to having a laugh and rolling around on the set with emu. you needed somebody of the calibre of michael parkinson who was a very talented interviewer. he started early in television and learned the skills and there was the magical moment in the 70s when these people were here waiting to be spoken to and it was late night, just originally a filler programme for the bbc during ...