Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been sitting by the river and drinking beer, or falling in love, or writing novels or painting pictures, or watching the Dick Cavett Show on a color television. But whatever we have been doing, it has been personal and private, and there has been time to think. And most of us have realized that yes, the smug predictions are probably true, and the wave has crested. This is the quietest year at Harvard since Robert McNamara came to town in 1967, and Nathan Pusey's values have been reasserting themselves...
...audience that lit up as Cavett strolled onstage, obviously to have a good time. Much of that good time would be purchased at my expense, which was only right. Cavett's purpose was to ensure that I would suffer all the shocks, surprises, pitfalls and confusions that afflict the host five shows a week. He succeeded. No sooner did Cavett sit down than he tossed a zinger...
...STAGE MANAGER IS POINTING FRANTICALLY AT THE CLOCK): That about wraps it up. I want to thank Dick Cavett for being our guest this evening . . . (SUDDENLY THE STAGE MANAGER PRODUCES A HASTILY MADE CUE CARD; THERE'S NO RECOURSE EXCEPT TO READ IT.)Tomorrow my guests will be Greta Howard Hughes, Charlie Chaplin ?and Bozo, the Wonder Chimp! [Applause and laughter.] Say good night, Dick...
...Cavett and the studio audience, show is over?but not for me. Gliding offstage, I felt powered as if by bottomless reservoir of adrenaline. The program had sped by much too fast. Smitten, I hungered to go back. Missed cues, memory lapses, technical distractions, the guest's curve balls, the occasional fumbling efforsts at easy conversation?all these had brought terrors, but they they were terrors shared by dare-devil drivers and talk-show hosts alike: they only heightened the thrill. I understood, too, the performer's need for approval. I accosted total strangers backstage, demanding of them line...
...days later when the mail brought a check from the producer. It was very disappointing, so I rang him up. "Is that all I get?a lousy $290?" I asked. The producer testily explained that this was the customary fee given to all the artists who appear on the Cavett show. "That's what we paid Sir Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt and Sir John Gielgud." Well frankly," I retorted. " I don't see why people like Noel, Al, Jack and I should?" He hung...