07-29-2009, 10:43 AM
graylocks wrote:
I miss Dick Cavett.
Cavett required his audience have an ability to focus and think, the others are entertainers - a traveling circus designed to sell advertising.
In fact, Richard Burton was still pondering whether to do my show, and it was thought that my visiting him backstage informally might help.
I tried to imagine what fears or hesitations Burton might have about appearing with me. Could he be afraid that the rich voice, those rugged good looks, the manly erotic charm, the hypnotic blue eyes, the articulacy, the fine wit and the ready storehouse of classical and modern literary quotations and allusions were not quite enough to qualify him for sitting next to Cavett? (Did anyone think, just now, that I was describing myself?) wrote:
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