Word: cavett
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...Caveat Cavett...
Regarding your review of Cavett (now he belongs to the ages: Churchill, De Gaulle, Hildegarde), may I point out that it contains a selective bias that is either mildly vindictive, editorially incestuous, or else just faulty research...
...book was written by a former TIME editor who was a classmate of Cavett's at Yale and is also an employee of Dick's production company. The book was reviewed by a TIME editor who failed to point out that Cavett worked for TIME...
Your reviewer tried putting a feather in my back by writing that while Paar put on Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett presented Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Lester Maddox. Your research and/or bias could just as honestly have stated that while Cavett presented Tiny Tun, George Jessel and Totie Fields, Paar put on John and Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Dr. Albert Schweitzer...
...event, I hope the book is as successful as his TV career. Who would have thought that that pushy little guy in the NBC men's room would one day become so popular that according to his pressagent, "Dick Cavett can no longer go to the theater because he's mobbed." My goodness, I've never been mobbed; neither has Johnny Carson or Merv Griffin. I gather the way to get yourself mobbed is to hire a pressagent...