Dick Cavett interviewed an extraordinary roster of famous people in a talk-show career that began in 1968 and spanned most of the remainder of the 20th century. But he does not hesitate to name the ...

Dick Cavett didn't do interviews — he held conversations. And in the 1960s and '70s, he held conversations with the likes of Katharine Hepburn,... Cavett's Conversations: 'When People Simply Talk' ...

A recent visit to Dick Cavett's 1912 Greek Revival mansion in the hills outside Ridgefield, Connecticut, is a visit to the deep past — his own mostly. Vestiges of a long, public life fill the ...

“I didn’t always remember everything we’d been talking about. I was forever thinking ‘Oh shit–what was it I thought of a minute ago while this other person was talking?’ Eventually, I developed a ...

Dick Cavett was never a fan of boxing. In fact, he thinks it should be abolished. But in all his years as an interviewer and talk-show host, one of his favorite guests was Muhammad Ali. That no one ...

His collection features chats with Ali, Bowie, Brando, Capote, Hendrix, Hepburn, Hitchcock, Jagger, Joplin, Mailer, Mantle, Olivier and Welles. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor His erudite collection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb 16, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; NBA legend Bill Russell smiles while he is being honored during the 2014 NBA All-Star Game ...

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Everyone wants to ask Dick Cavett the same question, and it is a question that he never wants to answer: Of all today’s talk-show hosts, who is the “next Dick Cavett”? “Well, ...

JOHNNY CARSON and “The Tonight Show” may have gotten the big late-night ratings, but in the late 1960s and early ‘70s it was ABC’s erudite “The Dick Cavett Show” that drew the hip, the cool and the ...