"Phony, academic-sounding verbal junk... trying to talk like effete characters from Victorian novels...."

I've been ignoring this Dick Cavett thing in the NYT that's been sitting at the top of the most-emailed list for days, but now I...

"Wee embers were fanned into an inferno by skilled flame-fanners and the professionally offended."

Dick Cavett on Don Imus: The Imus show had long been an eccentric mix of news, music, sports talk and — thanks to its well-read host — first...

That time the health food guru went on the TV talk show and died.

Dick Cavett tells the story. It happened on his show. ( TimesSelect link .) [Jerome I. Rodale] was extremely funny for half an hour, talking...

The post-Woodstock Cavett show.

Last night, I watched another episode of "The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons" ( a new DVD set ). Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby, S...

Early morning radio.

I'm about to go on Wisconsin Public Radio to talk about the Ten Commandments and the Establishment Clause. (The Supreme Court took cert ...

Readers respond re: "Is Kerry a war hero?"

Yesterday, I wrote that I didn't think much of the new assertions that Kerry was not a war hero on the theory that if the assertions we...

Journeys With George. I didn't have HBO back when Alexandra Pelosi's documentary Journeys With George was on originally, so it was...

Kerry in 1971. C-Span showed an old episode of The Dick Cavett Show with the young John Kerry debating a Nixon supporter, also a Vietnam ve...

Here's a nice account of working for Jack Paar on The Tonight Show by Dick Cavett. Interesting revelation: Paar was very intelligent, ...