Richard "Dick" Alva Cavett è un conduttore televisivo, scrittore e comico statunitense.
Noto come celebre personalità televisiva negli Stati Uniti, è un ex conduttore di talk show. Apparve alla televisione statunitense a livello nazionale per cinque decenni consecutivi, dagli anni sessanta ai duemila. Il suo programma più celebre fu il Dick Cavett Show sul network ABC, andato in onda dal 1969 al 1974.
Tra i molteplici ospiti da lui intervistati nel corso degli anni, citiamo Salvador Dalí, Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Alfred Hitchcock, George Harrison, Jimmy Hoffa, Robert Mitchum, Judy Garland, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Marlon Brando, Ingmar Bergman, Jerry Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Woody Allen, John Lennon & Yōko Ono.
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“But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”
"Playboy Interview: Dick Cavett", Playboy, March 1971, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70
Contesto: I don't think you could say now that ABC is crasser than the other two networks. But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.
“Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine.”
In response to Norman Mailer's remark: "Why don't you just read the next question on your card there?" — on The Dick Cavett Show (2 December 1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9vDRe8fw
“It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but always wanted one.”
On hosting a talk show, "Playboy Interview: Dick Cavett", Playboy, March 1971, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 72
Cavett http://books.google.com/books?id=CE4NAQAAMAAJ&q=%22You+can+after+all+reduce+the+reasons+for+watching+TV+to+but+two+to+be+lulled+and+to+be+stimulated+Some+people+do+one+sometimes+the+other+sometimes+Some+people+do+all+of+one+or+all+of+the+other%22&pg=PA331#v=onepage, co-authored with Christopher Porterfield (1974)
Excerpted in New York magazine July 22, 1974 http://books.google.com/books?id=kekCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22You+can+after+all+reduce+the+reasons+for+watching+TV+to%22+%22two+to+be+lulled+and+to+be+stimulated+Some+people+do+one+sometimes+the+other+sometimes+Some+people+do+all+of+one+or+all+of+the+other%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
“There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”
Mocking the TV-violence debate, as quoted in Life, Vol. 18 (1995), p. 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=bNcxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There's+so+much+comedy+on+television.+Does+that+cause+comedy+in+the+streets?%22&dq=%22There's+so+much+comedy+on+television.+Does+that+cause+comedy+in+the+streets?%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I23qTvzhLsWgtwfNmJCUCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA
