Word: nye
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Cavett and his wife, Actress Carrie Nye, live in a handsome six-room East Side apartment. Carrie Nye, now 33, is a willowy Mississippian who met Cavett when both were at Yale and married him in 1964 after a sporadic court ship. She says: "Dick thought I was Zelda Fitzgerald, and I thought he was the squarest person I ever met. I remember thinking that he was attractive but what a pity he was such a bore." She pauses, then adds in a voice as sultry as a hot night on the old plantation: "In the intervening years he became...
Contrasting their personalities, Carrie Nye says: "I honestly don't think Dick has an insecure bone in his body. He's a balanced man. I do things to excess. I am volatile and temperamental, and Dick is not. He's reasonable. It bothers him and me the way people always have to categorize. They see him walking around with long hair and in dungarees and they think he's a hippie. Or they see him on TV in those J. Press suits and think he's Ivy League, they find out he went to Yale and immediately assume he thinks...
...course of her acting career, Carrie Nye has lodged some fine credits (Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams). While Dick is ambitious but unobsessed with his work, she is not driven at all. She spends most of her time reading, and by choice has not acted in two years. She prefers loafing at the Cavetts' old, ramshackle house at Montauk, on the eastern tip of Long Island. "I like falling-down dilapidated houses, unrestored and unregenerated," she says. "Maybe we're the Snopeses...
...Cavetts' relationship allows for a kind of respectful distance. In town they see only a small number of friends at home and rarely go out together. Dick, who used to enjoy partygoing, now much prefers privacy and books. Carrie Nye will often spend a week alone at Montauk ("It's like taking your brain out of your head and laundering it"). Dick, too, will take a weekend there alone, wandering among the dunes. A friend calls it "tactful withdrawal." At the same time, both see a wry absurdity in the outward aspects of their marriage. Sometimes they play a talk...
Joseph S. Nye...