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Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett (/ˈkævᵻt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
In recent years, Cavett has written a column for the online New York Times, promoted DVDs of his former shows as well as a book of his Times columns, and hosted replays of his classic TV interviews with Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, John Lennon and others on Turner Classic Movies channel.
Cavett was born in Nebraska, but sources differ as to the specific town, locating his birthplace in either Gibbon, where his family lived, or nearby Kearney, the location of the nearest hospital. Cavett himself, in an interview with Carol Burnett on The Dick Cavett Show, stated that Gibbon was his birthplace. His mother, Erabel "Era" (née Richards), and his father, Alva B. Cavett, both worked as educators. When asked by Lucille Ball on his own show about his heritage, he said he was "Scottish, Irish, English, and possibly partly French, and, and uh, a dose of German." He also mentioned that one grandfather "came over" from England, and the other from Wales. Cavett's grandparents all lived in Grand Island, Nebraska. His paternal grandparents were Alva A. Cavett and Gertrude Pinsch. His paternal grandfather was from Diller, Nebraska and his paternal grandmother was an immigrant from Aachen, Germany. His maternal grandparents were the Rev. R.R. and Etta Mae Richards. The Rev. Richards was from Carmarthen, Wales, and was a Baptist minister who served parishes across central Nebraska. Cavett himself is an agnostic.
George Harrison,MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism and helped broaden the horizons of his fellow Beatles as well as their Western audience by incorporating Indian instrumentation in their music. Although the majority of the Beatles' songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group included "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something", the last of which became the Beatles' second-most covered song.
Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt; Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry were subsequent influences. By 1965 he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. After the band's break-up in 1970, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, "My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor for later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978.
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker and playwright, whose career spans more than five decades.
He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian.
By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s, and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. Some best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), although he considers Stardust Memories (1980), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and Match Point (2005) to be his best films. Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema."
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators.
He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life.
His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as "Groucho glasses": a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in over 70 films and shorts, including a series of "Road" movies also starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards fourteen times (more than any other host), he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and was the author of fourteen books. The song "Thanks for the Memory" is widely regarded as Hope's signature tune.
Born in London, England, Hope arrived in America with his family at the age of four and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his career in show business in the early 1920s, initially on stage, and began appearing on the radio and in films in 1934. He was praised for his comedy timing, specializing in one-liners and rapid-fire delivery of jokes—which were often self-deprecating, with Hope building himself up and then tearing himself down. Celebrated for his long career performing United Service Organizations (USO) shows to entertain active service American military personnel—he made 57 tours for the USO between 1941 and 1991—Hope was declared an honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces in 1997 by act of the U.S. Congress. He also appeared in numerous specials for NBC television, starting in 1950, and was one of the first users of cue cards.
Actors: Kathleen Quinlan (actress), Rolfe Kent (composer), Diane Lane (actress), Tim Robbins (actor), Lolita Davidovich (actress), David Seltzer (writer), Sean O'Bryan (actor), James Urbaniak (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Robert Curtis Brown (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Don McManus (actor), Emilio Rivera (actor), Deborah Ricketts (miscellaneous crew), Steve Gehrke (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Damian Chapa (writer), Damian Chapa (actor), William Knight (actor), Art Roberts (actor), Damian Chapa (producer), Damian Chapa (director), Alison Lees-Taylor (actress), Carmen Perez (actress), Andray Johnson (actor), Natasha Blasick (actress), Kristoffer Kjornes (actor), Leslie Garza (actress), Leslie Garza (producer), Harwood Gordon (actor), Jesse Wang (actor),
Genres: Biography,Actors: Matt Frewer (actor), Michael Kopsa (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Michael Eklund (actor), L. Harvey Gold (actor), Terence Kelly (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Michael Adamthwaite (actor), Dave Cote (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Mark Acheson (actor), Jay Brazeau (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Tom McBeath (actor), Colin Lawrence (actor),
Plot: A group of heroes, forced into retirement a decade before are called together once again to investigate the murder of one of their own. What they discover is an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power in a world not different from our own.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, abuse, acquaintance-rape, afghanistan, airship, alternate-historyActors: Wes Craven (writer), Wes Craven (writer), Nan Martin (actress), Patricia Arquette (actress), Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress), Robert Shaye (producer), Wes Craven (producer), Priscilla Pointer (actress), Dick Cavett (actor), John Saxon (actor), Robert Englund (actor), Craig Wasson (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Frank Darabont (writer), Wes Craven (writer),
Plot: Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw other people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and for all.
Keywords: 1980s, auto-salvage-yard, back-from-the-dead, bare-chested-male, begins-with-a-quote, blood-spatter, body-in-a-trunk, boy-with-glasses, breaking-a-mirror, breaking-through-wallActors: F. Murray Abraham (actor), John Cassavetes (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Dick Cavett (actor), Joe Santos (actor), Alexis Smith (actress), Richard Donner (director), Joseph Wiseman (actor), Mike Kellin (actor), Richard Jordan (actor), June Havoc (actress), Pete Hamill (writer), Pete Hamill (writer), Fredd Wayne (actor), Paul Leaf (producer),
Plot: The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl. In the pilot episode, Carmine manages to rescue Smitty's night club from being demolition and manages to resurrect a fading star's acting career.
Keywords: actress, comeback, film-within-a-film, nightclub, press-agent, private-detective, unsold-tv-series-pilotHosts Brendan and Rico of The Dinner Party Download sit down with guests Jessica Williams (“The Daily Show”), legendary talk-show host Dick Cavett and musical guest Emmy the Great for a party to end all parties. Watch the entire show: http://wny.cc/4mWQty
Katharine Hepburn Interview Part 1 Dick Cavett Show 1973
Carol with Dick Cavett. Sorry for slight blips; this was four separate parts. And I had to screencapture some of the parts that didn't rip. For the Carollers.
**BE SURE TO CHECK OUT "Richard Burton, when will they make a film about the legendary actor? at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Richard-Burton-when-will-they-make-a-film-about... He was sitting in front of his dressing room mirror after a tiring performance of "Camelot," removing his make-up for the who knows how many thousandth time. Paler, with the greasepaint cleansed from the famous face, he managed to look, simultaneously, handsome, vibrant and worn. "Richard has been entertaining the idea of doing your show, Mr. Cavett," a man who appeared to be both valet and companion said. "And letting the idea entertain him," the Welshman intoned in that unmistakable voice. In fact, Richard Burton was still pondering whether to do my show, and it was thought that my visiting him backstage inf...
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