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Celebrity Drama
Aired January 14, 2003 - 11:56 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We have just a little bit of time to look at "Celebrity Justice" today. Pete Townshend of The Who in big trouble in Britain, and it involves child pornography, and charges that he tried to claim to be innocent of right now.
Joining us from Glendale, California, Harvey Levin, executive producer of "Celebrity Justice."
Harvey, good morning.
HARVEY LEVIN, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": Good morning, Daryn.
KAGAN: But not a very good morning for Pete Townshend.
LEVIN: Apparently not. This is really amazing. He was caught up in a big sweep. The U.S. Postal Service was looking at lots of people who use credit cards to log on to child porn Web sites, and they say his came up. And you know, something really interesting came out today that apparently Pete Townshend has a Web site, and about a year ago he posted a letter that he wrote about pedophilia, and said that one of the people who played in a band awhile back that he was involved in was charged with this, and he was kind of labeling it a witch hunt. So this is something he's had an interest in for quite awhile.
KAGAN: A very personal interest, because he claims he was just doing some research for an autobiography, and that he claims he was a victim as a child.
LEVIN: Are you aware of the lyrics in one of the songs in "Tommy?" This is really interesting. It's a track called "Fiddle About," and in it, this is what it say, "I am your wicked uncle Ernie, and I'm glad you won't see or hear me as I fiddle about, fiddle about, down with the bed clothes, up with the nightshirt, fiddle about, fiddle about." So it seems there's something autobiographical going on here, and obviously, it sounds like this is going to be his defense to anything that might have happened.
KAGAN: It sounds like it. But also I was reading its illegal in Britain to even look at child pornography on the Internet. We'll have a lot more to talk about this at a future time. Right now, we're out of time, Harvey. But thanks for sticking around. Appreciate it.
LEVIN: Sure.
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Aired January 14, 2003 - 11:56 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We have just a little bit of time to look at "Celebrity Justice" today. Pete Townshend of The Who in big trouble in Britain, and it involves child pornography, and charges that he tried to claim to be innocent of right now.
Joining us from Glendale, California, Harvey Levin, executive producer of "Celebrity Justice."
Harvey, good morning.
HARVEY LEVIN, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": Good morning, Daryn.
KAGAN: But not a very good morning for Pete Townshend.
LEVIN: Apparently not. This is really amazing. He was caught up in a big sweep. The U.S. Postal Service was looking at lots of people who use credit cards to log on to child porn Web sites, and they say his came up. And you know, something really interesting came out today that apparently Pete Townshend has a Web site, and about a year ago he posted a letter that he wrote about pedophilia, and said that one of the people who played in a band awhile back that he was involved in was charged with this, and he was kind of labeling it a witch hunt. So this is something he's had an interest in for quite awhile.
KAGAN: A very personal interest, because he claims he was just doing some research for an autobiography, and that he claims he was a victim as a child.
LEVIN: Are you aware of the lyrics in one of the songs in "Tommy?" This is really interesting. It's a track called "Fiddle About," and in it, this is what it say, "I am your wicked uncle Ernie, and I'm glad you won't see or hear me as I fiddle about, fiddle about, down with the bed clothes, up with the nightshirt, fiddle about, fiddle about." So it seems there's something autobiographical going on here, and obviously, it sounds like this is going to be his defense to anything that might have happened.
KAGAN: It sounds like it. But also I was reading its illegal in Britain to even look at child pornography on the Internet. We'll have a lot more to talk about this at a future time. Right now, we're out of time, Harvey. But thanks for sticking around. Appreciate it.
LEVIN: Sure.
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