by Dick Cavett
Lake, Veronica
Lane, Mark
Lang, Cecil
Lansbury, Angela
La Pierre, Wayne
Lardner, Ring
Larkin, Philip
La Rosa, Julius
Laurel, Stan
Laurel & Hardy
Park
Steps
This Is Your Life and
Laurel and Hardy (DVDs)
Law & Order
Lawrence, Steve
Lazio, Rick
Leary, Timothy
Lemmon, Jack
Lennon, John
Leno, Jay
Leonard, Jack E.
Letterman, David
Leuze, Bob
Levant, Oscar
Levenson, Sam
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, Richard
Libya
Liebling, A. J.
Limbaugh, Rush
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln High School
Lincoln Journal
Linkletter, Art
Lloyd, David
“Loaded Gun, A” (Keefe)
Lombard, Carole
Lucky Jim (Amis)
Luger gun
“Lydia, the Tattooed Lady” (song)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
MacDonald, Jeffrey
MacGrath, Leueen
Macintosh computer
Maddow, Rachel
Maddox, Lester
magic acts
mind-reading horse and
rabbit vanish effect
rope routine
Tony Curtis and
Magruder, Mr.
Mailer, Norman
“Making It in Munich” (Nye)
Maltese Falcon, The (film)
Mansfield, Jayne
Manson, Charles
Marceau, Marcel
Marlene (documentary film)
Martin, Dean
Marx, Eden
Marx, Groucho
books on
Carnegie Hall concert of
death of
education of
Erin Fleming and
Jonathan Winters and
writing and
Marx, Harpo
Marx Brothers
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (TV show)
mass murderers
Matthau, Walter
McCain, John
McCann, Chuck
McCarthy, Joe
McCarthy, Mary
McConnell, Jimmy
McCormick, Pat
McCourt, Malachy
McKnight, Hugh
McMahon, Ed
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (TV show)
Meltzer, Jay
Merman, Ethel
Merv Griffin Show, The
Michelangelo
Middle East
Mikado, The (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Milland, Ray
Mills Brothers
mind-reading horse
Miral (film)
Mister Roberts (film)
Mitchell, Thomas
Mitchum, Robert
Modern Jazz Quartet
Mohammed
Mosque, Lower Manhattan
Mrs. Miniver (film)
Muller, Karl
Muni, Paul
Murdoch, Iris
Musharraf, Pervez
Music Box, The (film)
My Autobiography (Chaplin)
Nabokov, Vladimir
Napier, B. Davie
National Rifle Association (NRA)
Nazi Germany
Nebraska youth
Christmas and
guns and
juvenile delinquency and
mind-reading horse and
sex education and
trips home as adult and
whitewashing Bryan statue and
Nelson, Bob
news
Newton, Robert
New York City
New Yorker
New York Times
Nigger of the ‘Narcissus,’ The (Conrad)
nightclub act
Nightline (TV show)
nightmares
Niven, David
Nixon, Richard M.
Norman Mailer Center banquet
nudity
Hair and
posture pictures and
Nureyev, Rudolf
“n word”
Nye, Carrie
Oates, Joyce Carol
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Conan
O’Connor, Donald
Olivier, Laurence
“Omaha, Nebraska” (song)
O’Malley, Tom
Onassis, Aristotle
Ono, Yoko
Osborne, Robert
Oscars
Othello (Shakespeare)
O’Toole, Peter
Paar, Jack
Pakistan
Palin, Sarah
Panetta, Leon
Parker, Dorothy
Parker, Trey
Password (TV show)
Pastore, Vincent
Patton, George S.
Penrod (Tarkington)
Perelman, S. J.
Picasso, Pablo
“Pit and the Pendulum, The” (Poe)
Plato
Playhouse 90
political correctness
Porter, Cole
Porterfield, Chris
posture pictures
Present Laughter (Coward)
Princeton University
“Proverbs of Hell” (Blake)
Pyle, Ernie
racism
Racy News, The
Radcliffe College
Raised Eyebrows (Stoliar)
Rannells, Andrew
Rauch, Karen
reader comments
on alcoholism
on astronomically improbables
on Bryan statue
on comedy writing
on dreams
on gun laws
on posture pictures
on sex
on Stan Laurel
Reid, Harry
Reiner, Carl
Rembrandt
Republicans
Reynolds, Debbie
rhythm method
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Riva, Maria
Rivers, Joan
Roach, Hal
Robards, Jason
Roberts, Julia
Robinson, Jackie
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
Rodale, J. I.
Rogers, Martha
Rollins, Jack
Ronde, La (Schnitzler)
Rooney, Andy
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
rope routine
Rosenbaum, Ron
Ruby, Harry
Ryskind, Morrie
Sahl, Mort
Sales, Soupy
Salk, Jonas
Sands, George
Sands of Iwo Jima (film)
Sandy Hook (Newtown) shootings
Santorum, Rick
Schell, Maximilian
Schiller, Lawrence
Schirripa, Steve
Schnabel, Julian
Schnitzler, Arthur
Schoenberger, Nancy
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schulz, Charles
Scopes trial
Sellers, Peter
Sennett, Ted
September 11, 2011 (9/11) attacks
sex
astronomically improbables and
college and
first learning about
guns and
high school and
Woody Allen on
sex education
Shakespeare, William
Shanks, Bob
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheldon, William
Shinto religion
“Show Me a Rose” (song)
Show People magazine
Sinatra, Frank
Singer, Arthur J.
Sioux
Sirico, Tony
Slezak, Walter
Smith College
“somatotypes”
Son of Ali Baba (film)
Sopranos, The (TV series)
South Park (TV show)
Soviet Union
Spenser, Edmund
sperm
Stafford, Jean
Stalin, Joseph
Stamp Act
Stapleton, Jean
Stapleton, Maureen
State of Heat, A (Graham)
Steib, Ed
Stewart, James
Stewart, Jon
Stoliar, Steve
Stone, Matt
Stone, Oliver
Storytime Playhouse (radio show)
Streep, Meryl
Studio One (TV show)
Sullivan, Ed
Sunflowers (van Gogh)
Super Bowl
Supersonic Transport (SST)
Sweet Science, The (Liebling)
Sweet Smell of Success (film)
Syria
Tartaul, Ann Drachman
Tarzan movies
Taxi (TV show)
Taylor, Elizabeth
Tea and Sympathy (Anderson)
Teller
terrorists
Third Man, The (film)
This Is Show Business (TV show)
This Is Your Life (TV show)
Three Stooges
“through the looking glass” incidents
Thurber, James
Time magazine
Tito, Josip Broz
Tojo, Hideki
Tomlin, Lily
Tom Sawyer (Twain)
Tonight Show, The
Art Linkletter as host of
Carson’s early hosting of
endurance of
gap between Paar and Carson on
host changes and
Jack E. Leonard as host of
Jerry Lewis as host of
Jonathan Winters on
writing staff
Tony Awards
Touch of Evil (film)
Tracy, Spencer
Triesault, Ivan
Turturro, Aida
Twain, Mark
Twelve Angry Men (film)
Twelve Chairs, The (film)
“2,500-Year-Old Brewmaster” (Ballantine ad)
$25,000 Pyramid, The (TV show)
2,000-Year-Old Man, The (album)
understudies
Usher, Monroe
Van Dyke, Dick
Van Gogh, Vincent
Van Zandt, Steven
Vassar College
Veidt, Conrad
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam War
virginity
Wagner, Robert F.
Washburn, Ben
Wayne, John
Weaver, Pat
Weiss, Paul
Weissmuller, Johnny
Welles, Orson
Wellesley College
Wharton, Edith
“What Is This Thing Called Love?” (Porter)
What’s My Line? (TV show)
Whiffenpoofs
Who Do You Trust? (TV show)
Wikipedia
Wilde, Oscar
Wille, Ron
Williams, Brian
Williams, Robin
Williamson, Nicol
Winters, Jonathan
Wolf, Naomi
“Woman Is the Nigger of the World” (Lennon and Ono)
women’s colleges
Wonder Horse
Wordsworth, William
World War II
Wozniak, Steve
wrestling
writing
insecurity and
rereading and
right word and
Yale University
acceptance letter
commencement speech
class reunions at
8:00 a.m. class and
freshman year at
Maria Riva visit to
posture pictures and
Yalta Conference
Your Show of Shows (TV show)
YouTube
Yugoslavia
ALSO BY DICK CAVETT
Talk Show:
Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
Eye on Cavett
(with Christopher Porterfield)
Cavett
(with Christopher Porterfield)
About the Author
DICK CAVETT was the host of The Dick Cavett Show on ABC and PBS, and he also hosted talk shows on the USA, HBO, and CNBC cable networks. He appears frequently on stage, screen, and new media, and he was nominated for his most recent Emmy Award in 2012. He is the author of Talk Show and the coauthor of Cavett and Eye on Cavett, and he writes an online opinion column for The New York Times. He lives in New York City and Montauk, New York.
More information about Dick Cavett and about The Dick Cavett Show is available at www.dickcavettshow.com.
[BRIEF ENCOUNTERS]. Copyright © 2014 by Richard A. Cavett. Foreword © 2014 by Jimmy Fallon. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The essays in this book originally appeared, in slightly different form, on the Web site of The New York Times, which owns the copyright jointly with the author.
Cover art credit: © Carlos Rene Perez/Associated Press
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Cavett, Dick.
Brief encounters: conversations, magic moments, and assorted hijinks / Dick Cavett; foreword by Jimmy Fallon.—First edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-9977-5 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-0-8050-9978-2 (electronic book)
1. Cavett, Dick. 2. Television personalities—United States—Biography. 3. Entertainers—United States—Biography. 4. Dick Cavett show (Television program) I. Title.
PN2287.C38A3 2014
791.4502'8092—dc23 2014006409
[B]
e-ISBN 9780805099782
First Edition: November 2014
