Only Mr. Kimmel on ABC, who made a point of defending Mr. Leno against picketers, made a few self-deprecating jokes about the strike, then settled into amiable, boring interviews with C-list guests.
When I interviewed amiable Dagenham backbencher Jon Cruddas he called all this "cross-dressing" and commented: "It's almost physiologically they're all merging into one".
The interviews are amiable — most in the boy-meets-Hemi, boy-falls-in-love genre — but the true stars are the hot rides photographed by Michael Alan Ross.
Numan married his biggest fan, Gemma O'Neill, and there are entertaining scenes showing their amiable squabbling, and long interviews with Numan himself in which he confesses to being a bit of an anorak.
Warburton is also composed and amiable, and a treat to interview, but he prefers being quiet and solitary on match days rather than a rabble-rousing captain.
In interviews he was amiable, even sentimental; he laughed readily until, like a bear's, the gaze set and the broad claw swiped at something he abominated.
The contract talks were amiable, and Mr. Seacrest signaled in interviews that he intended to stay on "Idol".
In the jailhouse interview, Mr. Tankleff appeared relaxed, amiable, animated.
The interview does indeed maintain an amiable pitch of faux-revelatory vagueness: "I don't think I've been an anxious mother… more a strong, protective one," and so forth.
An amiable grandfather named Gene Rosen, who agreed to fifteen interviews, noticed himself feeling increasingly skittish and taut with each interview.
