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Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, And Off-Screen Secrets (2010)

by Dick Cavett(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0805091955 (ISBN13: 9780805091953)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Times Books

review 1: This is a collection of essays by Cavett. I found it surprisingly dull and dated. Three or four essays bashing fellow Yale man, Pres. Bush was just too much. Ok, we get it...you think Bush and his admin were buffoons, but how many essays with that singular opinion need to be included. It was just boring and now that we are near the end of another two terms of incompetent presidency, it seems irrelevant.
review 2: I'm not sure what I expected from this book, but whatever it was, this wasn't it. It really is a compilation of Cavett's newspaper columns. Some are good, like the recollections of John Wayne and Richard Burton, or the whole Norman Mailer flap. Others are quite bad, such as the ones where he admits that he's backed himself up to the deadline and is ... morewriting crap out of contractual obligation, with a kind of "Gosh, isn't it swell to be Dick Cavett" conceit. I'm sure it is - but a little of that sort of thing lasts me a while. Cavett's writing is always smart and clever, even when he's floundering against a deadline, but much of it has a curiously pointless quality, as though Cavett doesn't care what I think of what he is writing, and I don't care about what he is writing. Like two people in an elevator killing ninety seconds by talking past each other."Looks like rain, huh?""Yeah. Hey, did you see the show with Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal.""Yeah. That was something, huh?""Sure was. This is my floor." less

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