events todat:'I thought I was a goner two weeks ago...I'm embarrassed to still be here': Clive James on regret

Easy methods to almost two years since Clive James announced that leukaemia involved to destroy him, provoking a hurry of tributes that converted out to be early.
He wrote a composition saying he'd never see the leaves on the Japanese maple in the garden turn green again, and everyone took that as his big good bye, but it was the tree that died first.
'We've had it changed, ' he admits that.
But while the open Australian writer and broadcaster is grateful to be making ends meet to life with the aid of an treatment plan new drug, the 76-year old who shuffles to the door of his Cambridge home is plainly weakened and doesn't know how enough time is left.
'I thought We were a goner two weekends ago when We awoke at 4. 40 each morning with a tongue bigger than my oral cavity, ' he claims in a croakier version of that flat, wise-guy All the voice so widely copied during his glory days and nights as a TV celebrity.
James was your bonzer boss of prime-time in the Eighties and Nineties, a bald-headed bulldog in a suit, a graduate student of the Cambridge Footlights utterly convinced of his own brilliance and the absurdity of others. Peering myopically at the camera, this individual introduced witty reports from far-flung places and strange clips from TV areas around the world.
Clive James On Television was the Saturday-night hit series that first brought all of us the eye-watering Japanese workshop Endurance and gave labor and birth to every clip show since. Then there were the interviews with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Katharine Hepburn.
'I was never most of an interviewer, ' he accepts the fact that, then changes his mind. 'I managed to ask hard questions sometimes, in the case of Roman Polanski, for example. '
Face to face with the controversial film director, who had back off from America after claims of raping a 13-year old, he asked preposterous if Polanski liked girls. The answer was very much yes, although this individual preferred to call them young women.
'The question hangs how young, ' said James, refusing to back down.
Maybe this individual is tough at the right time and funny at others, a voracious consumer of high and low culture able to quote both Homer and Homer Simpson.