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Alice will be happy to continue what she is doing. TV casting directors seem seized by an insatiable demand for what she calls "funny-looking little people," and she has become one of the brightest and most engaging regular guests on the Dick Cavett Show. Karen and Julie, who are shallower performers with more grandiose ambitions, may face problems. Both have graduated from just singing on the talk shows to staying on to chat with the host. But neither seems to have much...
...least of which was the chance to grow at our own pace and to pursue, with no guilt whatsoever, the totally irrelevant. "If we had the last of the wine, the time when you could construct your own cubicle, then we were lucky," says television's Dick Cavett, 33. "I look back now on my college days as a time of fantastic luxury." Above all, we were the last generation to accept without question-or to pretend to accept-the traditional American values of work, order and patriotism...
Arthur Carlsberg, Financier Johnny Cash, Singer Dick Cavett, Television Host Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Player
...afraid that people would hate him. They did. They also hated the play, which folded in Philadelphia after 17 performances. "It was not a pleasant experience," admits Mike. "I behaved very badly toward Elaine." She abandoned performing for about six years. Mike, as he says, "might have been Dick Cavett today" except for Saint Subber's stomach. The producer owned a play by a TV comedy writer named Neil Simon. He remembered a funnyman who might just be able to direct. "Mike had misgivings and doubts," Saint Subber recalls. "He said, 'Why do you come to me?' I said...
...Cavett has already shown that he has trouble appealing to the mass-consumption audience. Twice before-once with a daytime show and again last summer with a variety hour-Cavett put on the same kind of solid performance, only to meet the network axe when he couldn't bring in the soap commercials. Running against Carson's show, the fiscal prospects look bad again. Cavett's fans can only hope that ABC looks past the ledger books when it decides whether to keep the show...