Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

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2011
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For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nations most famous personalities on his late night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics. Pull up a chair and listen to Cavett's stories about gaining one up over Bette Davis, testifying on behalf of John Lennon, confronting Richard Nixon, scheming with John Updike, befriending William F. Buckley, and palling around with Groucho Marx. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic; then to his great surprise, he found himself at Yale. Cavett is also a wry cultural observer, looking at America today and pointing out the foibles that we so often fail to notice about ourselves. And don't even get him started on politicians. A generation of Americans ended their evenings in Dick Cavett's company; Talk Show is a way to welcome him back.

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For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nations most famous personalities on his late night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics. Pull up a chair and listen to Cavett's stories about gaining one up over Bette Davis, testifying on behalf of John Lennon, confronting Richard Nixon, scheming with John Updike, befriending William F. Buckley, and palling around with Groucho Marx. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic; then to his great surprise, he found himself at Yale. Cavett is also a wry cultural observer, looking at America today and pointing out the foibles that we so often fail to notice about ourselves. And don't even get him started on politicians. A generation of Americans ended their evenings in Dick Cavett's company; Talk Show is a way to welcome him back.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Griffin
Published: 22 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 0312610521
ISBN 13: 9780312610524

Media Reviews

Breezy, incisive and amusing-nice to have you back, Dick. - Kirkus Reviews In his beguiling profiles of celebrities . . . Cavett proves himself a solid writer as well as a talker. - Publishers Weekly Do you know that age-old question, If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be? Well, assuming Santa Claus is unavailable, my answer would be Dick Cavett. After reading Talk Show , you could just imagine what a conversation with him would be like: pleasant, insightful, and oddly erotic. Dick Cavett is a legend and an inspiration to me. --Jimmy Fallon
There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's. His guest list was miraculous, the conversations dazzling, and it's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book. --Woody Allen
Breezy, incisive and amusing--nice to have you back, Dick. -- Kirkus Reviews In his beguiling profiles of celebrities . . . Cavett proves himself a solid writer as well as a talker. -- Publishers Weekly Do you know that age-old question, If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be? Well, assuming Santa Claus is unavailable, my answer would be Dick Cavett. After reading Talk Show, you could just imagine what a conversation with him would be like: pleasant, insightful, and oddly erotic. Dick Cavett is a legend and an inspiration to me. --Jimmy Fallon
There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's. His guest list was miraculous, the conversations dazzling, and it's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book. --Woody Allen

Breezy, incisive and amusing--nice to have you back, Dick. Kirkus Reviews

In his beguiling profiles of celebrities . . . Cavett proves himself a solid writer as well as a talker. Publishers Weekly

Do you know that age-old question, If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be? Well, assuming Santa Claus is unavailable, my answer would be Dick Cavett. After reading Talk Show, you could just imagine what a conversation with him would be like: pleasant, insightful, and oddly erotic. Dick Cavett is a legend and an inspiration to me. Jimmy Fallon

There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's. His guest list was miraculous, the conversations dazzling, and it's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book. Woody Allen

Breezy, incisive and amusing--nice to have you back, Dick. --Kirkus Reviews

In his beguiling profiles of celebrities . . . Cavett proves himself a solid writer as well as a talker. --Publishers Weekly

Do you know that age-old question, If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be? Well, assuming Santa Claus is unavailable, my answer would be Dick Cavett. After reading Talk Show, you could just imagine what a conversation with him would be like: pleasant, insightful, and oddly erotic. Dick Cavett is a legend and an inspiration to me. --Jimmy Fallon

There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's. His guest list was miraculous, the conversations dazzling, and it's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book. --Woody Allen

Author Bio

Dick Cavett was the host of the The Dick Cavett Show, which won three Emmys and aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on PBS from 1977 to 1982. He also hosted talk shows on the USA, HBO, and CNBC cable networks. He is the coauthor of Cavett and Eye on Cavett, and since 2007 he has written an online opinion column for The New York Times. He lives in New York City and Montauk, New York.