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Charlie Rose's MacBook Air-Induced Black Eye
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 18, 2008
Modified Mar 18, 2008
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Charlie Rose's black eye and forehead injury are not from an interview subject fed up with Rose's incessant talking. It's actually from his valiant attempt to save his precious MacBook Air!
TechCrunch found out Rose tripped on a 59th Street pothole: "He was carrying a newly purchased MacBook Air and made a quick (but ultimately flawed) decision while falling: sacrifice the face, protect the computer." Producers said, "In doing so, he pretty much hit the pavement face first, unfortunately...The Macbook Air is fine, he showed us the blood stains on it this morning.”
Charlie Rose is a hardcore gadget fetishist: TechCrunch also included a previous photograph of Rose showing off three cell phones (he was probably using at least two of his three cell phones when he tripped!). It's unclear, though, if he called 311 or Mayor Bloomberg himself to complain about the vicious talk show host-maiming pothole.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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