Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (Paperback)
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"There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's... It's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book."Woody Allen
For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show......more
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"There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's... It's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book."Woody Allen
For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics. Pull up a chair and listen to Cavett's stories about one-upping Bette Davis, testifying on behalf of John Lennon, confronting Richard Nixon, scheming with John Updike, befriending William F. Buckley, and palling around with Groucho Marx. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic.
Cavett is also a wry cultural observer, looking at America today and pointing out the foibles that we so often fail to notice about ourselves. And don't even get him started on politicians. A generation of Americans ended their evenings in Dick Cavett's company; Talk Show is a way to welcome him back.
Dick Cavett was the host of the The Dick Cavett Show, which won three Emmys and aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on PBS from 1977 to 1982. He also hosted talk shows on the USA, HBO, and CNBC cable networks. He is the coauthor of Cavett and Eye on Cavett, and since 2007 he has written an online opinion column for The New York Times. He lives in New York City and Montauk, New York.
- Author:
- Cavett, Dick
- Genre:
- HUMOR / Form / Essays
- Audience:
- General/trade
- Edition Detail:
- Reprint
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 279
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Griffin
- Publish Date:
- 11/22/2011
- Copyright Year:
- 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780312610524
- Height:
- 8.5 in
- Wdth:
- 5.25 in
- Thickness:
- 1.0 in
- Unit weight:
- 0.6 lb
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The erstwhile host of The Dick Cavett Show unburdens himself in this collection of rambling though piquant essays from his New York Times online column. It's an eclectic and sometimes surprising lineup: on- and off-set celebrity anecdotes; meditations on the art of the comic insult; jaundiced assessments of the 2008 presidential contenders; not one but two apologias for radio DJ Don Imus; scenes from a Nebraska boyhood, with minor hooliganism and encounters with a movie-house pervert. Cavett occasionally lets his affable host's persona slip to voice idiosyncratic passions, in his plea to ban fat actors from TV commercials, for example, and his snipes at public figures for language mistakes and mispronunciations (he reviles George W. Bush almost as much for saying "nucular" as for starting the Iraq War). Some pieces misfire, especially when Cavett overuses transcripts from his shows; even the celebrated trash talk showdown between guests Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer lies flat on the printed page. But in his beguiling profiles of celebrities-the deft magician Slydini; the humbled gossip columnist Walter Winchell; an aging John Wayne, who reveals an unheralded appreciation for NoIl Coward plays-Cavett proves himself a solid writer as well as a talker. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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