This past weekend CBS Sunday Morning conducted an interview with Dick Cavett that revealed very little. Basically, we learned that the former TV talk show host had a beautiful house on Long Island, rebuilt in the style of the original after that one burned down, and that, at the age of 80, he was planning to sell it.
Fans of the old Dick Cavett Show of course have their own memories. Mine is of watching him in 1980 interview the great travel writer Jan Morris and hearing her talk about Alexander Kinglake and his classic Eothen. I wrote down the names, marveling that I had heard them on a major network’s talk show. Today it seems almost incomprehensible.
