Dick Cavett talks about his friendships with Muhammad Ali and Groucho Marx, interviewing Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis, and finding a new audience on YouTube.
and say to him, “Do you get up every day and try to do some work on your career?” And he said, “I try toHow did you place yourself in that divide? You were young, but you were clean-cut. You weren’t of the counterculture, but you weren’t of nineteen-thirties Hollywood, either.
With Groucho, there’s a thing I can always look at and feel better: a letter from his daughter Miriam, which ended, “My father thought the world of you.” [.] God, I must be getting sentimental. But that’s one of the treasures that my career brought me, knowing Groucho. He invited me to the house once, and I didn’t go. I probably would have spent a week with him there. I don’t know why I didn’t.
They were hipper, often, than I thought they might be. That was a relief. But, my God, the list of people whose names I could mention today to a room full of people whose ages would prevent them from knowing any of those names—it startles me. I mentioned Groucho to someone I took to be only twenty years younger than I am, and he said, “I know that name.” And I said, “Oh, good for you.”
I can’t, either! It didn’t scare me. I thought it was funny, but I had no idea that that day was going to contain taping a show with her. There was a kind of wooden fence on the set, and she said, “Do we need that?” The stagehand went, “Well, we’d have to unscrew—” “Don’t tell me what’s wrong, just fix it!”
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