Posted on 02/11/2020 10:33:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Oh my God, I’ve made a bad impression already,” Dick Cavett says apologetically after I ever-so-gently correct his pronunciation of my name. When I suggest that I should be the one worried about interviewing one of the all-time great interviewers, he’s quick to put me at ease.
“You’d better put that aside and out of your mind,” he tells me. “I can’t detect any faults in you so far.
I’ve reached the 83-year-old talk show legend by phone at his home in Connecticut just a few days before the new documentary, Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, is set to air on HBO. Muhammad Ali made a total of 14 appearances on The Dick Cavett Show between 1968 and 1975, and over that time the the two men developed what Cavett describes as a “bro romance.”
The film, which first premiered at the SXSW film festival nearly two years ago, uses footage of those appearances to tell the story of Ali’s career, with Cavett’s knack for compelling storytelling present throughout. He still gets emotional when recalling the time the boxing icon came on his show after a rare loss and called the host his “main man.”
Over the course of our conversation, Cavett opens up about his relationship with Ali, compares Richard Nixon’s resignation over Watergate to Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal, and weighs in on the late-night TV landscape more than 50 years after his show debuted.
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I swear, I honestly thought that too. Every once in a while some old geezer who was prominent a gazillion years ago comes out of the woodwork and I think that, gee, if you’d asked me yesterday if that guy was still alive, I say that I didn’t thinks so. This is one of those times.
I watch his re runs at night. Not anymore!
What Crimes?? Name one.
It’s amazing that they love Watergate so much, they’ll even resort to conjuring one out of thin air when the mood strikes them.
There were no crimes, you ignorant Dick.
I though you were dead. Are you back to vote democrat?
Gonna be 52 in May.
Besides the name and I kinda knew he had a talk show, I’ve NEVER seen him or one of his shows.
That purple dinosaur from some years back would have a bigger influence on my vote.
He has suffered from mental illness for many decades. I wouldn’t take his advice.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-04-29-1992120219-story.html
Shame. He was so good co-hosting with Howard Cosell at the Battle of the PBS Stars.
I know who he is, but I don't care what he thinks or says about anything, even his bromance with Cassius Clay.
So I dove-in and broke the FR cardinal rule about actually reading the article.
It’s a lengthy interview with Cavett in which Trump is barely mentioned in passing. And he does not really trash Trump. Just kind of sidesteps a question coming from the interviewer.
Headline is a deceptive tease intended to draw Lefty Trump Deranged Clickbait.
I am still angry about what they did TO Nixon. I am thankful that Trump stood up to the deep state and is still our president. They wanted Nixon out because the deep state made MONEY on VN war, and Nixon promised to get US out of it. That is why he was run out of town on a rail. JFK did things deep state didn’t like and you know what happened to him.
Meanwhile Comeystain concluded Hitlery Rotten Clinton didn’t Mean To break all of those laws and destroy so many documents.
He did. The Daily Beast puke just doesn’t know it yet.
Exactly. Everyone accepts this as fact, but so few actually elaborate on specifics.
Me too. This Canadian faggot was always a raving Lefty.
Haven’t these idiots learned by now that we don’t care what celebrities think?
They are all compromised liars who work for the globalists.
He didn’t die 20 years ago?
Whatever.
If his name were Alvin he could be ac or dc.
So much for presumptions of innocence with liberals
Liberals are the one cops shooting black people
Dick Cavett could put an active volcano to sleep.
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