Charlie Rose interview with Schulz

Now available on DVD is Charlie Rose’s interview with Schulz. I don’t recall this one, but if it is truly from May of 1997 as it says, I doubt it’s too focused on the 50th anniversary of the strip (as the Amazon description mentions), which was still more than 3 years away at the time. (And, sigh, they misspell Schulz’s name on the DVD case.)

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