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Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets / Dick Cavett.
- Title
- Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets / Dick Cavett.
- Author
- Cavett, Dick
- Publication
- New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
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- Description
- xviii, 279 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A pioneering talk-show host shares memories of his experiences with famous guests from John Lennon and Richard Nixon to William F. Buckley and Groucho Marx, and offers his insights into what his career taught him about American culture.
- Uniform Title
- New York times
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) – United States – 2010.
- Association copies (Provenance)
- Note
- Includes index.
- "The essays in this book originally apeared, in slightly different form, on the web site of the New York times"--T.p. verso.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: It's Only Language -- Ghost Stories -- Basil Rathbone's Mysterious Message -- Luck in the Afternoon -- Jet-lagged in the South China Sea -- What My Uncle Knew About War -- An Innocent Misunderstanding -- What Was He Thinking? -- Imus in the Hornets' Nest -- When That Guy Died on My Show -- Back On with the Show -- An Author's Nightmare -- A Life in Rim Shots -- No Gagging the Gags -- Sopranos Grief -- Virginity, Lost -- Cinema Days -- Is Bigger Really Better? -- Him, to Kick Around Again -- Witness for the ... Who, Exactly? -- Hey, Listen! This One'll Kill Ya! -- Hail, the Conquered Hero -- In This Corner, Norman Mailer -- When They Told Me Norman Wrote a Book -- With Readers Like Y'all -- A Potpourri of Pols -- Was It Only a Game? -- Bobby and You -- A Most Uncommon Man -- Uncommoner than Thou: Buckley, Part 2 -- Candidate, Improve Your Appearancel -- Memo to Petraeus and Crocker: More Laughs, Please -- Petraeus, Custer, and You.
- Liar, Liar, Pants Aflame -- Polygraphically Perverse -- A la Recherche de Youthful Folly -- Good to See You. Is It You? -- Smiling Through -- Smiling Through, Part 2 -- What's So Funny About Nebraska -- Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be -- Cavett Dodges the Chair -- Experience 101 -- 'Tis But a Man Gone ... but What a Man -- Anger Mismanagement -- Fright Night -- The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla -- How's That Again, Guy? -- A Better Sort of Insult -- I'm Not Weeping; It's an Allergy -- Writers Bloc: When Updike and Cheever Came to Visit -- Conjuring Slydini -- Seriously, What Are the Odds? -- Why Can't We Talk Like This? -- Miller Talks Again -- Sky's the Limit -- Who's Afraid of Richard Burton? -- Richard Burton, Take 2 -- Strange, Dear, but True, Dear -- A Third Bit of Burton -- Richard Burton: A Regretful Au Revoir -- Dangerous Substance: Sample with Care -- The Ghost Ship W.W. -- Almost Nothing About Tiger Woods -- Why, I Oughta ... and I did -- Awesome, and Then Some -- Oh, What a Lovely Mess! -- More Awesomeness, or John Wayne, Part 2.
- ISBN
- 9780805091953
- 0805091955
- LCCN
- ^^2010014289
- OCLC
- 567188448
- SCSB-11602770
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library