Word: cavett
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Memorizing lines is sheer agony, but TV Personality Dick Cavett is determined to see his name in lights on Broadway. The onetime Yale drama major (class of 1958) belatedly makes his debut this week as Tom Courtenay's replacement in the hit show Otherwise Engaged. "I can't see why if I don't screw up I shouldn't be acceptable," Cavett predicts about his role as a snobbish British publisher beset by domestic crises. But he does have one worry: "I have a bad dream in which I go blank during a speech...
...feminist cause as any performer in the country. She has appeared at benefits in support of the Equal Rights Amendment in St. Louis, Cleveland and Denver, and she has campaigned for Bella Abzug and Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso. A few years ago, she was appearing on the Dick Cavett Show when Actor Chad Everett referred to his wife as his property-along with his horse and dog. She stunned even herself by walking off the show...
...basest instincts instead of intelligent news programming that could educate us. But Chayevsky is the one who is really pandering. He has devised a phony portrait of television's weaknesses and hopes to peddle that message to every Happy-Talk-hating, Tom Snyder-loathing, sit-com-sickened, Dick Cavett-loving liberal who has ever been disgusted with TV's performance. And Chayevsky's dishonesty catches up with him, rendering this film into a harmless vision that doesn't really convince or cajole...
During his earlier years at TIME, Boyd oversaw a rather remarkable generation of copy boys, including TV Talk Show Host Dick Cavett, Author George Plimpton and TIME'S present managing editor, Henry Anatole Grunwald. In a risky, highly unusual but apparently astute move, Boyd late one night asked Grunwald to green a story. "Perhaps he was testing me," recalls Grunwald today. TIME was later to test Boyd when he was told to become a computer expert and lead us into what Grunwald describes as the "promised land of interface and input" sans the jargon. We are almost there today...
...Like Cavett, most of the guest hosts are popular figures. Candice Bergen, Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin and Anthony Perkins have appeared, and Raquel Welch is scheduled for next Saturday. Tomorrow night, Ron Nessen, presidential press secretary, will make his show business debut...