Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STILL TRYING to cash in on the audience Johnny Carson attracts. ABC has put a new witty and charming host in the time slot opposite Carson. At first glance, the new Dick Cavett show seems to be just another Tonight Show imitation-like the Jocy Bishop show it replaced. But Dick Cavett's approach is somewhat different from Carson's. Unlike the often-famous Carson, Cavett encourages serious conversation on his show-Vietnam has been a key topic on several nights-and this alone may indicate that his show is not going to be another slick late-night confection...
...attraction rests on its atmosphere of polish and color, an atmosphere created in no small part by the shimmering set, the flashy clothes which Johnny and the bandleader wear (Johnny's wardrobe by Ol?g Cassim), the stylish bandleader. What people say on the show is fairly unimportant: deliberately, Carson keeps the conversation light, and-like the show itself-trivial...
Very much unlike Carson, Cavett allows his guests to speak for quite a long time-some as long as twenty minutes-so that they can express their views in depth. The content of each person's comments is highlighted by the fact that there are never more than four guests on each night, in contrast to the five or six who crowd the Carson stage on any given night...