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Dick Cavett

Birth Name:
Richard Alva Cavett
Birth Place:
Gibbon, Nebraska, United States
Profession
TV host: writer, actor

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Allen v. Farrow
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali

Latest News See All

Dick Cavett Talks About Watergate, Then and Now

On August 8,1974, Richard M. Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, announced his resignation. Watergate, the criminal scandal that had begun two years earlier with GOP operatives attempting to bug the Democratic National Committee's Watergate Hotel headquarters, had finally brought him down. No one covered the events more fully than Dick Cavett on his late-night ABC talk show. "I was an addict," Cavett now admits. "You couldn't wait to get...

Fri, Aug 8, 2014

The Biz: Television Takes Center Stage on CNN's The Sixties

If you were to put 1960s television on a psychiatrist's couch, it would be diagnosed as schizophrenic. Primetime was loaded with frothy, high-concept sitcoms, such as Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie, that became baby boomer favorites, while network news delivered grim images of the Vietnam War, social unrest, and assassinations.

Wed, May 28, 2014

Trailers & Videos See All

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Ali & Cavett: The Tale Of The Tapes: Sleep Overs
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Ali & Cavett: The Tale Of The Tapes
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Ali & Cavett: The Tale Of The Tapes: The Louisville Lip
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Ali & Cavett: The Tale Of The Tapes: Racial Inequalities
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LennoNYC (International Trailer)
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