Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would ABC bow to low ratings results and the wishes of many of its affiliates by canceling the Dick Cavett Show? Or would it defer to the argument by Cavett's highly vocal following that the show was a late-night oasis of wit and intelligence that should not be forced to compete for a mass public? For months that has been the big question in the TV industry...
...with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers. Then on to the birthday party at the normally staid St. Regis Roof, where Count Basie alternated with Muddy Waters to provide music, and Andy Warhol fluttered around aiming a Polaroid camera at a mob that included Dick Cavett, Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Woody Allen and tie-dyed Zsa Zsa Gabor. Out of another giant cake popped Warhol Protege Gerry Williams outfitted in two black pasties and one black garter, her costume for an unusually explicit erotic dance. Then came more gifts for Jagger: a silver cross...
...lapses as "We don't want another calamity like Lima's [code name for a British patrol] shooting on our own men" or "Can you claim a hit?" are met with the sort of hilarity among Bogsiders that Americans reserve for a good quip on the Dick Cavett Show...
...celebrated recluse, became a media happening. The scenes blur: Bobby swinging away in a sports-celebrity tennis tournament, Bobby receiving a letter of support from President Nixon, Bobby jetting to Bermuda for lunch with David Frost and the beautiful people, Bobby making the rounds of the talk shows (Dick Cavett: Do you honestly think that you are probably the world's greatest player? Bobby: Yeah, right.) There is even a new record called The Ballad of Bobby Fischer, a twangy ditty sung by Joe Glazer and the Fianchettoed Bishops: "He was born in nineteen forty-three/ And right away...
...course, there's Dick Cavett, who may be kind of cutesy, but still has the best guests on the late-night talk show sounds, CHANNEL...