Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JIMMY BRESLIN is nearly everybody's everything. He is a culture hero of sorts for jocks, politicians, journalists, former New York Post readers and drunks everywhere. He also has a following among couples who make it to the beat of Johnny Carson six nights a week all over the length and breadth of this great country of ours-so when Breslin comes to Cambridge, who has the right to keep away...
Sculptor Neke Carson designed a combination fountain-environment that is beautiful to look at and fun to be in. Participants sit inside two large plastic bubbles and watch smaller plastic bubbles floating about in a trough of gurgling water. Ted Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there...
...MOST serious fault of Cavett's show, unfortunately, is Cavett himself. He is charming-like Carson, boyishly charming-but he seems disappointingly simple-minded on his show. He may have gone to Yale, but he listens smilingly to what his guests say with an apparent naivete reminiscent of Carson's apparent naivete. He acts as if he is positively unaware of the meaning of what anyone is saying...
Watching Cavett's show is not always easy. It takes a certain amount of concentration to watch anyone speak for twenty minutes-especially on television, which is not geared for unbroken action or conversation (as Carson must well know). Most people who twirl the midnight dial are probably looking for an easier-to-watch show like Carson's before dozing...
...trouble appealing to the mass-consumption audience. Twice before-once with a daytime show and again last summer with a variety hour-Cavett put on the same kind of solid performance, only to meet the network axe when he couldn't bring in the soap commercials. Running against Carson's show, the fiscal prospects look bad again. Cavett's fans can only hope that ABC looks past the ledger books when it decides whether to keep the show...