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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly Great Read, February 15, 2009
Reading "Cavett" is almost as good as watching his show. I'm glad I didn't read the book on public transportation. Laughing out loud on subways is embarrassing to say the least. This book is a delight.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Read and read again!, April 16, 2009
Being a rabid Cavett fan, I first read this terrific autobiography when it was newly published. I recentally rediscovered this treasure while dusting my bookcases. There it was way up on a top shelf untouched for many years. I began flipping through it, started reading, poured some coffee, and hours later original chore undone, had reaquainted myself with the joy of the Cavett years. How lucky was Dick Cavett to have known such amazing people? Please Mr Cavett, may we have another book covering the second chapter of your life?
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8 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
High school reunions--be very afraid , September 19, 2006
Imagine your worst high school reunion nightmare. No, not that one--this one: One of your graduating classmates is Dick Cavett. Unsurprisingly, at the reunion he is warm, witty and charming; however, he is writing a book. Afterward, he visits your home, and although you may not have known him all that well and his fame might make him a bit gentleman in the jungle, you reminisce and catch up. Later, Cavett's book comes out and in it you come across as something like one of the sadder bit players escaped from a Stephen King novel, or, more positively, you are portrayed as relatively normal, friendly and earnest, if hopelessly déclassé.
What makes many of us forever want to like Dick Cavett? Why not? He is charming, funny and erudite, and has some of that vulnerable self-conscious unpredictable Jack Parr quality that spices talk shows with a dash of potential danger. Cavett also possesses an admirable honesty, as when he describes in this book his perfervid anticipatory glee at attending his high school reunion as the celebrated Dick Cavett, which sounds a bit shallow until you start to consider how you might feel about showing up at your own high school reunion as a sparkling sought-after celebrity.
Naturally Cavett's book reflects his world view, a school of thought that always presents itself as championing the underdog, while remaining elitist to the core. Cavett mentions a classmate at the reunion who drolly refers to the seating around Cavett as "the chic table." Dick Cavett, as in this book, cannot resist playing to that table, but we, the many non-chic, appreciate him anyway, his intelligence, his wit, and this revealing book.
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