MARTIN AMIS INTERVIEW:

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MARTIN AMIS INTERVIEW:.||=================================================================================||||a)C4N: ALEX THOMSON||||B/W STILL Martin Amis with his father Kingsley Amis (both authors)||||B/W STILL Martin Amis||||GRAPHIC CSs covers of Amis' books|||ITN|GRAPHICISED SHOT GV Amis sitting at cluttered desk reading||GRAPHIC Cover of Amis' autobiography "Experience"||TX 31.5.2000/C4N||b)C4N: ALEX THOMSON|ITN|ENGLAND: North London:||INT||Martin Amis (author) interview SOT||- talks about being attacked after having operation / if you have trouble in your mouth then that is where you live||- not all publicity is good publicity especially when talking about a novel that is a means of communion with the author||- publicity can be harmful to novels||- hard to imagine a novel that needs someone like Tony Blair (PM) behind it like "Money" needed Margaret Thatcher behind it||- England was highly politicised in the 1970s||- class isn't really there any more after Thatcher / class used to be omnipresent / not a force in society the way it used to||- talks about the attraction of America / more of a world than a country||- Denmark is a deadening society because they have no social problems but it is a road rage society / can imagine England evolving towards that||- recent riots were anti-politics rather than about politics||- talks about the Millennium Dome on New Year's Eve - like a seven hour stop at a second rate German airport||- speculates about going to America||- talks about his father's politics||- imbalance in views on Russian experience||- voted for Blair, have no regrets about it / better since he stopped smiling all the time||TX 31.5.2000/C4N