Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

FROM 2011: Here’s a Tears for Fears story I guarantee you haven’t heard before:I was the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times Alumni (now the Tampa Bay Times) in 1985, assigned to review a Tears For Fears concert.I rushed back to the paper’s Clearwater bureau that night to file my story. Waiting for it in downtown St. Petersburg was the late night editor, Christine Holsten. I filed my story and waited for her to read it and answer any questions she might have.But her major question wasn’t about my story; it was about the photo credit. The photographer identified his picture as Roland Orzabal on the left, Curt Smith on the right. But Christine wasn’t convinced. I said the photographer had it correct, but she had the final call and switched the ID in the caption.It was probably the last time I was right about anything in our relationship, but I was right; she was wrong. A horde of TFF fans called in the next day to say how stupid I was for getting it wrong, of course. (They weren’t happy about being re