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When that sentence was pronounced on the Dick Cavett show last winter, fireworks were expected. Mailer had never been known to ignore a taunt; he had devoted whole chapters to demolitions of competing writers. Instead, there was an uncharacteristic silence. Six months later, Mailer has provided an answer. But it, too, is atypical. For if, as the editor of his new book claims, Mailer was "the literary world's finest counterpuncher" since Hemingway, he no longer deserves the title or the hype. Pieces and Pontifications demonstrates that, despite a pugilistic stance, the author has deserted the ring for color...
...clear that Noguchi, a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Tokyo in 1952, is a habitual grandstander. He has been a guest on the Dick Cavett show, and the TV character Quincy is partly modeled on him. "Noguchi is the Salvador Dali of forensic pathology," says a coroner from an East Coast city...
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...
...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...
...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...