The Resource Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets, Dick Cavett
Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets, Dick Cavett
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- Summary
- For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's 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 one-upping 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 279 pages
- Note
-
- Includes index
- "The essays in this book originally apeared, in slightly different form, on the web site of the New York times."-- Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780805091953
- Label
- Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets
- Title
- Talk show
- Title remainder
- confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets
- Statement of responsibility
- Dick Cavett
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's 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 one-upping 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. 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 371288
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- New York times
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cavett, Dick
- Dewey number
-
- 791.4502/8092
- B
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN2287.C38
- LC item number
- A35 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cavett, Dick
- Entertainers
- Television talk shows
- Television personalities
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets
- Label
- Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets, Dick Cavett
- Note
-
- Includes index
- "The essays in this book originally apeared, in slightly different form, on the web site of the New York times."-- Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805091953
- Lccn
- 2010014289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 567188448
- (OCoLC)567188448
- Label
- Talk show : confrontations, pointed commentary, and off-screen secrets, Dick Cavett
- Note
-
- Includes index
- "The essays in this book originally apeared, in slightly different form, on the web site of the New York times."-- Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805091953
- Lccn
- 2010014289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- 567188448
- (OCoLC)567188448
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