SXSW Turns the Tables on Comedy Connoisseur Dick Cavett

The veteran talk-show host matters because he took the art of being funny seriously

"...is kicking off with a live onstage conversation with Dick Cavett, that's the reason...."

March 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Comedy Review: Cavett on Comedy With Dave Hill

Dick Cavett's fave talk-show moments and friendship with Ali

"...Dick Cavett was friends with Groucho Marx, frenemies with Norman..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

The Greatest Meets the Brainiest in SXSW Doc Ali & Cavett

Outside the ring and on the couch with Muhammad Ali and Dick Cavett

"..."It was instantaneous," said Dick Cavett, recalling the first time Muhammad Ali was a..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

"...followed by another, this time of Ginsberg on the Dick Cavett show. Cavett seems at a loss as to..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Comedy: Your 2018 Lineup

March mirth blows in with Bloom, Offerman, Gaffigan, & Cavett

"...Bloom, Jim Gaffigan, Nick Offerman, James Adomian, and … Dick Cavett?..."

Feb. 27, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends

"...THE DICK CAVETT SHOW: COMIC LEGENDS..."

March 24, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats

These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them

"...THE DICK CAVETT SHOW: HOLLYWOOD GREATS..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Jimi Hendrix

DVDisc

"...Jimi HendrixThe Dick Cavett Show (MCA) The new Experience Hendrix DVD is..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Kent H. Benjamin

The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons

DVDnds

"...The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...With Emily D: Madeleine Olnek Molly Shannon plays Emily Dickinson in Wild Nights With Emily, a humorous drama. This..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Ray Charles

Gift guide

"...The Dick Cavett Show (Shout! Factory)..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Horror, the Horror

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and screenwriter of the infamously terrifying film, discusses the recently released The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen and his life on both sides of the camera.

"...I was in Manhattan to try out for the Dick Cavett show, which at that time was the talk..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

The titans of literature and their complex bond

"...appearances on the late, lamented, but always intellectually engaging Dick Cavett and David Frost television shows (and we are..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

"...wrongheaded, the couple's elongated interviews with Howard Smith and Dick Cavett reveal wide-reaching substance behind the style. A transcript..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Greg Beets

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

This celebratory documentary skips briskly over the 60-plus-year career of one of jazz's pre-eminent and most original singers.

"...frustratingly brief – from interviews O'Day gave everywhere from Dick Cavett's talk show to NPR's Fresh Air. Often, the..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Theresa Everline

Inside Deep Throat

This documentary about the heady days of porn – when "deep throat" became a household expression and everyone viewed the movie Deep Throat as a breath of fresh air – is informative yet lacking historical rigor.

"...also features a host of commentators – among them Dick Cavett, Helen Gurley Brown, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Erica..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'The New Yorker,' My Mother, and Me

An Austin writer courses through her favorite magazine's festival circuits.

"...Institute. Audience was mature, argent-haired, intensely respectful, and appreciative. Dick Cavett sat two rows in front of me...."

Oct. 3, 2003 Books Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

Digimon: The Movie

"...collective youth identity. As Sly Stone once answered when Dick Cavett asked him what his classical music training had..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

TV Eye

A new series charts the evolution of sex

"...Hefner getting slammed by feminist Susan Brownmiller on The Dick Cavett Show (1970). Hefner is positively flustered, and it..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Home Entertainment for the Holidays

Best bets for DVD and Blu-ray

"...of comedy and the business of show: Mel with Dick Cavett, with Johnny Carson, with David Susskind, with Mike..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Websites from Hell

It's 4am -- Do You Know Where Your Monitor Is?

"...bursting forth from JFK's shattered noggin' while LBJ and Dick Cavett perform an abbreviated, naked conga line in the..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Comedian's Comedian Live Podcast Recording at SXSW

Stuart Goldsmith gets under the skin and psyches of professional stand-ups

"...If Dick Cavett is the Father of the Serious Comedy Interview,..."

March 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: Best of Enemies

Hugely fun doc about Buckley and Vidal's infamous debates

"...well-loved, far cooler urbane heads from Jack Paar and Dick Cavett to Christopher Hitchens. What a fun ride! Best..."

March 20, 2015 SXSW Post by Anne S. Lewis

Jimi Hendrix

West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology

"...clips, wailing "Killing Floor" in Paris or bemused as Dick Cavett suggests some people might be offended by his..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

La Lupe

"...notably her TV appearances on the David Frost and Dick Cavett shows in the early Seventies. In these, la..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics

DVDisc

"...set of its live musical performances. After all, The Dick Cavett Show was recently telescoped down to a sole..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...a pitiful story, all told (it usually is when Dick Cavett begins to grope toward center stage midway through),..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

In Person

John Berendt at Borders

"...from Harvard in 1961, wrote for David Frost and Dick Cavett, was editor from 1977 to 1979 for (gasp!)..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Books Feature

Janis Joplin, Texas, and the Big Beat

How East Texas Shaped Rock's First Female Superstar

"...the state," as she told TV viewers of The Dick Cavett Show, while planning her infamous trip home for..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser