Oriana Fallaci reflected on some of her most famous interview subjects in a 1969 Life article in which the grand inquisitor was the one being quizzed:

“Robert F. Kennedy: A very cold and shy man. He blushed at every question. I never managed to provoke him. One of my worst interviews.

Barbra Streisand: We liked each other very much, but she and her press agent complained about the story. I sent them both to hell.

John Glenn: The second time I saw him, after his fall, he was a better man, I thought, not playing the Boy Scout so much.

Federico Fellini: We are total enemies now. He wished me to die. I don’t wish him to die–but I don’t give a damn whether he lives.

Paul Newman: He seems like a nice American boy who reads the Times and Washington Post daily. I think I’d like him as a neighbor.”

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More Oriana Fallaci posts:

• Fallaci reports on monkey head transplantation. (1967)

• Fallaci calls Qaddafi “clinicaly stupid.” (2003)

• Fallaci demolishes Henry Kissinger. (1972)

• Fallaci interviews Indira Gandhi. (1972)

• Fallaci interviews Golda Meir. (1972)

• Fallaci recalls her confrontation with Muhammad Ali, (1969)