Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor but to baste him. America's favorite former anchorman had agreed to the $1,000-a-plate roast to raise funds for the newly created Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. Trouble was that try as they might, such luminaries as Dick Cavett, CBS's Andy Rooney and Beverly Sills could barely generate enough heat to toast, much less broil, kindly Uncle Walter. Then came Cronkite's turn, and he gave better than he got. On Rooney: "We've all had the experience of listening to him talk until an idea comes along...
...time I was there, I never met (Chairman) Grant Tinker." Carson, through a spokesman, said he was miffed that Rivers had negotiated a deal behind his back. NBC, meanwhile, pointed out that Rivers is joining a lengthy list of late-night hosts, including Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Alan Thicke, who have failed in the battle against Tonight. Said an NBC executive: "The cemetery is full of people who tried to dethrone Carson...
...SUCH self-effacement is also quite refreshing. Someone like Dick Cavett illustrates his memoirs with photos of himself acting, himself bathing, himself traipsing about with the elite--"Here I am in Elaine's with Woody Allen." Guinness provides 30 pictures of his friends, of whom he is justly proud...
...shelters were part of a colossal sham that authorities called "the largest tax-fraud case ever prosecuted." In a federal district court in Manhattan, he pleaded guilty to conducting a scheme that enabled about 200 taxpayers to take illegal income tax deductions amounting to more than $445 million. Allen, Cavett and the other celebrities who participated in the shelters were named as unwitting victims of the fraud...
Celebrities generally crave publicity, but not in this case. Said Cavett: "I just came back from Japan, and I much prefer taking a bath in public their way. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing." Other well-known investors were not talking about their tax-shelter troubles, but a clue to Jong's possible feelings can be found in a scene from her latest novel, Parachutes and Kisses, which is some what autobiographical. The book's central character, Isadora Wing, learns from her accountant that...