If there was ever a question of whether Diane Sawyer‘s still got it, a glimpse at her shoes would easily answer that inquiry. The anchor arrived at the Newseum on Tuesday night wearing a fitted black suit and a pair of black Christian Louboutins, flashing the signature red soles.
“I always say at the age of 65 you just want one thing, which is: ‘you don’t know everything about me,'” Sawyer said. “These shoes say that.”
Sawyer stopped by the Newseum as part of the Reel Journalism series with host, American University Professor Nick Clooney, and introduced the 1979 flick “The China Syndrome.” During her stay, she spilled on an array of topics.
She expressed concern for another prominent newswoman, CBS’s Lara Logan.
“Every person I know had an intake of breath that we will not exhale on until we hear from her and until we have a chance to see her and we all believe in our hearts, because she is so strong, she is so strong, that she will be back on ’60 Minutes’ soon, I hope, I really hope, so we send her only love and concern,” she said, discussing Logan’s encounter with protesters in Egypt.
She discussed the future of journalism, arguing that people in her position need to bring passion to facts. “We’ve got to bring to that the same passion and the same thrill that we get when we see people arguing their views on the various cable shows,” she said.
She also detailed one of her most famous interviews — when she spoke with Whitney Houston in 2002 and the singer first admitted using drugs. “When I interviewed Whitney Houston I went down, and I don’t know how many of you saw it, but it was rock and roll,” she said. “I’ve always said if you can be the first person who interviews someone that has never composed what they’re going to say that it’s the most exciting kind of interview because neither of you knows what is going to happen.”
