You can learn alot about someone while the cameras are running, but the interview hasn't started yet. Here we see John Edwards primping before an interview.
Observes Harry Shearer in his "video art" entry:
"For a guy who's been known derisively to the Bush crowd as the Breck girl," observes Shearer, vice presidential candidate John Edwards seems "way too interested in his hair." He tries to straighten it with his fingers. A makeup technician approaches with a comb, but the senator likes it just so and does the combing himself. He signals he's ready for hair spray by closing his eyes expectantly, like a child. Then Edwards and the technician straighten a little more with their fingers. Please don't tell me that thing in his hand is a compact. Oh, dear. It is.
Go to
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108216/slideshow/2108085/entry/2108087/ (video only, no sound).