Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dick Cavett Show. Muhammad Ali and Smokin' Joe Frazier spar verbally in a 90-minute warm-up for their scheduled Jan. 28 heavyweight bout at the Garden in New York. Cavett referees. Ch. 5. 12:30 a.m. Color...
MOST IMPRESSIVE DEBUT: Katharine Hepburn, who poignantly played her first TV role in The Glass Menagerie, and gave an even more varied and captivating performance as herself on the Dick Cavett Show (both ABC). Runner-up: Senator Sam Ervin as that perennial favorite, the shrewd, aw-shucks folk hero...
...substantive terms, the Administration can cite precious few examples of what it sees as TV's "distorted reporting." Appearing on the Dick Cavett Show last week, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Peter Lisagor said: "We've been trying since that Friday night press conference to get a bill of particulars, specify what was distorted, what was hysterical, what was vicious. And about the only thing that we can come up with so far is that Walter Cronkite quoted Hanoi radio one time as saying the President was out of his senses...
Cosell speaks harshly about such sports and non-sports figures as Casey Stengel ("rude, crude and uncultured"), Dick Cavett ("takes himself too seriously"), and David Frost ("totally absorbed with himself"). But his strongest attacks are on sportswriters. In language similar to Richard Nixon's, he writes, "I am not interested in petty feuds with some writers. Let them do their thing, and some have done it to me pretty well...
...early morning talk show promises to provoke a minor case of national insomnia. The issues raised the first two weeks were tough, complicated and significantly more interesting than the guests themselves. If this continues, Tomorrow will provide welcome relief from Johnny Carson's embarrassing sexual drivel and Dick Cavett's earnest but patronizing good intentions, and, more importantly, start a trend toward 24-hour programming...