Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, also known as Robin MacNeil, is a Canadian American novelist, and former television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 January 1931
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
commitment years lasts
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
city determined permanent seems stay york
We have determined to stay in New York City as our permanent home, because it seems to be the most interesting place in which to live as we get older.
absolutely apparent channels dozens given news serious stayed uniqueness
Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic, this is the one that has stayed absolutely gimmick-free and, therefore, its uniqueness is more apparent now, I think, than it was when we started 30 years ago,
boston children wife
I have children in Denver, Boston and London, England; and my wife and I have been to see all of them; and they to us in New York.
country few invested realized
But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
commercial needed network news seemed
It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,
mother lonely father
From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit.
crazy feelings mind
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.
mother glowing important
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
summer brother home
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.
son gay successful
And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
luxury play able
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
country past thinking
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.