Word: cavett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home overlooking Washington's Rock Creek Park and a 2.5% stake in the Washington Capitals ice-hockey team. Among the investors who flocked to his deals were a host of celebrities, including Filmmaker Woody Allen, Comic Bill Murray, Actors Christopher Walken and Frank Langella, TV Personality Dick Cavett and Author Erica Jong...
Other personalities are a little more adventuresome: the sedate Dick Cavett appears as a circus acrobat, Liv Ulmann becomes a, Erte' print, Jean Marsh strips down to a mega-clcavaged chef, and Chita Rivera reincarnates as Jean Harlow. Every one of them wearing red shoes and synopsized by an National Enquirer cutline. Two particularly obnoxious examples...
...addition to Rosenblatt, two other TIME staff members have recently published books. One is Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a close friend of Dick Cavett's since college days and a writer and producer of many of his TV shows. Porterfield collaborated with Cavett on the entertainer's latest volume of sharply observed portraits and reminiscences, Eye on Cavett. "I was actually there when many of the events took place," says Porterfield. "I even carry some of the same scars." Published by Arbor House, the work is the second joint effort by Porterfield and Cavett; the first, Cavett...
Manufacturers of personal computers have been using readily recognizable people for some time to make the slightly intimidating machines seem warmer and more empathetic. Apple has Dick Cavett for its commercials, Texas Instruments recruited Bill Cosby, Commodore has William Shatner, and Atari just hired Alan Alda. None of these living celebrities, however, has had the impact of the Tramp. The character has starred in three widely seen television commercials, plus more than 20 print ads. He has won numerous advertising-industry awards...
Cottle, who spent four years in analysis, usually begins each interview with an exploration of his guest's childhood. He inquires of an aloof Dick Cavett what it was like to lose his mother at an early age. His eyes dew up as Jerry Lewis describes the ache he feels for a departed grandmother. From the past, Cottle shifts (after the obligatory commercial) to the present. He wants Elizabeth Ashley to recount the horror of a back-alley abortion. He leans forward and demands of Daniel Travanti whether he has "the courage to fall in love" with his sultry...