Case of the subject being perfect in every way. Fascinating career, colorful past straight out of the movies (seriously, an escape artist growing up in a New York Mob family?), witty, lucid, probably an old hand at being interviewed, and living in Columbia no less. It certainly wasn't a chore to sit and listen through the radio story.
I thought the reporter waxed a little poetical on Manzini's appearance, but as we discussed in class, radio stories do that, and anyway it worked as a way to get Manzini's physical appearance across to the listeners. It matched his voice. Speaking of which, the introductory script went on for a while before we actually got to hear the mythical interviewee's voice. I liked the visual the reporter used - straitjacket, rope on fire - but then he kept going. I thought maybe he could have used some pithy soundbite from Manzini early on (the way newspaper articles usually put in a quote right after the lead) and then continued to set up the situation.
Jashin Lin
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