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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WRITERS, D.H. Lawrence once pointed out, should be scrupulously ignored when they stop making their art and start talking about it. "The artist is a damned liar," he wrote adding, "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." Lawrence, of course, was right. When a Dick Cavett coaxes a writer in front of the camera for a half-hour of high gossip, the writer often turns into a sly little prevaricator. Or when a Herbert Mitgang lets an author expatriate about his oeuvre in balanced prose you know no one speaks in... Writers should not be invited to "ideal" dinner parties...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Laughing Last but not Loudest | 11/18/1981 | See Source »

...Snyder, co-host of NBC's Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast show, on the difference between himself and fellow Talk Show Host Dick Cavett: "He'll talk with Luciano Pavarotti about opera. I'd like to know what he likes on his pizza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...guests or viewers see it. "I'm no star, but David went out of his way to be friendly to me," says Dr. Robert Dupont, ex-director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "On the other hand, I did four hours of filming with Dick Cavett, and at the end of it he didn't even remember my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland of the American Ballet Theater, soprano Anna Moffo, television personality Dick Cavett, singer Aretha Franklin and the Boston Ballet will star in the theater's opening on December...

Author: By Stacey L. Mandelbaum, | Title: New Met Center Lures Arts to Boston | 11/11/1980 | See Source »

...sense of her audience mar some of the pieces in Off Center. The McCall's article on the Moonies, for instance, opens with a paragraph as purple and swollen as a bad bruise. Sometimes Harrison's inspired chat turns to chaff--she goes completely gaga over Dick Cavett in a profile piece that is all flutter and giggles, just like the show. Occasionally we get the feeling that she is using words and criticisms for the sheer joy of being liberated, free to say what she wants...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: A Predator in Prose | 9/25/1980 | See Source »

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