Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discover firsthand what it must feel like to be Dick Cavett, TIME arranged a turnabout show before an audience that had gathered to watch one of his regular programs. This time Cavett himself was the sole guest. His host was Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum, who has since become insufferably stagestruck. His report...
...three hours early. A makeup girl laboriously tried to "play down" what she called a "big nose" and then sent me backstage to stew. Anxiety clawed at my chest. "I had hoped that a taxi would knock me down on my way to the studio," I said to Dick Cavett. He replied laconically, "That's New York; you never can get a taxi when you want one." Running a talk show, Cavett and his staff had warned, was not as easy as it appeared. But I was prepared to try, and had memorized all the instructions...
Suddenly came the blast of a fanfare and the cry of an announcer: "It's the Jesse Birnbaum Show! Starring Jesse Birnbaum! Tonight, Jesse's guest?Amateur Magician Dick Cavett! Ladies and Gentlemen?Jesse Birnbaum!" Applause thundered. Music swelled. Performer nauseated. Assistant stage manager shoved him onstage...
...magic. The few hundred people in the audience were smiling encouragement, clapping loud and hard. They were, it was true, responding to a flashing APPLAUSE sign, but who cared? Awash in the sound, I was transported into indescribable ecstasy. Instantly I understood what it felt like to be Dick Cavett or any other entertainer: not a few hundred but countless millions of unfamiliar humans seemed to be lavishing affection and approval, yielding themselves totally to my presence. Anxiety fled. I announced that I had come to play Dick Cavett's role. Then, peering squarely into the wrong camera, I said...
...tell star, and a real human being in his own right. He has starred in several G.I. training films, such as How to Disassemble the M-l Rifle, and its sequel, How to Assemble the M-l Rifle. And now, will you light the APPLAUSE sign, please, for Dick Cavett...