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DIED. Bobby Rosengarden, 82, session drummer for artists from Duke Ellington to Harry Belafonte who became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risqué, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dalí, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than...
...Thursday night, the audience chose a celebrity victor, Magician Harry Blackstone, who beat out the bigger names like Dick Cavett, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech...
...conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that Johnny's thesis at the University of Nebraska...
...part, because of John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer and former swift-boat commander whose feud with Kerry dates back more than 30 years. The first time O'Neill's anger at Kerry surfaced was in 1971, when the fellow naval officers debated the Vietnam War on The Dick Cavett Show, with Kerry speaking out against the war and O'Neill defending it. This time out, O'Neill, 58, and the group he helped organize, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, ran TV ads accusing Kerry of embellishing his war record, receiving undeserved medals and besmirching Vietnam vets. When the charges...
Considering his lifelong aspirations to the White House, that seems unlikely—yet his strategy makes you wonder. This summer, C-Span aired an episode of “The Dick Cavett Show†in 1971, showing a younger John F. Kerry debating his current Swift Boat rival John O’Neill on Vietnamization and how to end the War. The Kerry of 1971 paradoxically makes the Kerry of today look like an amateur. He was poised as always without sacrificing vitality; he was sharp and in command, and he seized every opportunity to quietly take...