Rose's star rose nationally in the early 1990s, when he launched his late-night interview show on New York's public television station, WNET. "This is the kind of life I want to live." "I grab life and go with it, because it can be extinguished like that!" he told the magazine in 1986. Rose was undaunted by the criticism at the time. "He's the most frightening combination of insecurity and egotism I've ever come across." "His desire to hear himself talk makes him an engaging interviewer," a former Nightwatch staffer told People. The host's increasing profile thanks to "Nightwatch" also sparked rumors of womanizing and outsized ego, People reported. The segment went on to win an Emmy, but it also exposed Rose to a criticism that would follow him for the rest of his career - that he had little interest in pressing guests with hardball questions. In one 1986 segment, Rose interviewed cult leader-turned-murderer Charles Manson. Bush to Woody Allen, New York Magazine reported. to 4 a.m., Rose turned the interview-based format into a popular forum for high-profile guests, from George H.W. He found his niche in 1983, when CBS hired him to helm "Nightwatch." A lobster shift weeknight show from 2 a.m. I consider it the biggest failure of my life, allowing my marriage to be a casualty of my own desire for a place in the sun."
"It's the saddest thing - I lost track of the marriage. "Workaholism had everything to do with it," Rose told the magazine. Career ambitions, he later told People Magazine in 1986, split apart his marriage in 1980. Rose hopped around the country with various television gigs, including as host of "A.M.
Soon Rose stepped onto the other side of the camera, picking up his first Peabody in 1976 for an interview special with Jimmy Carter, according to Fortune. Rose worked as an attorney on Wall Street while moonlighting freelance television assignments.Įventually, he was pulled into the orbit of Bill Moyers, working as a producer for the commentator's PBS show International Report in 1974. The two married and moved to New York where she worked as a researcher for CBS. "I became a political junkie in a serious way that summer," Rose told New York Magazine.Īfter graduation, he entered Duke's law school.
Everett Jordan, a North Carolina Democrat. He initially enrolled in pre-med, then jumped to history after a summer interning for then-Sen. Although he kindled ideas about leaving his home state, Rose went to Duke University, just an hour's drive from Henderson. His father owned an agriculture supply store near the train depot, Fortune reported in 2009. Rose, born in a town of less than a hundred people, grew up as an only child in rural Henderson, North Carolina. "There was no great plan," Rose told New York Magazine in 1992. The rise of Charlie Rose began with a little boy reading biographies of powerful figures by candlelight in the North Carolina bedroom he shared with his grandmother.īy his own account, Rose never set out to be a talk-show host or television journalist.
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