I love that!

That is the perfect description !

Perfectly stated. Bravo!

My word that is wonderful!

@@dannywhite9975 Also, perfectly sated.

Dwight...A very accurate and fitting comment on the great actor and on Mr Cavett. Dick had the best persons on his show...he and Jack Paar, Steve Allen are my favorites of the talk shows. Mr Welles is a natural at being the conversationalist, my thought is that he was such a curious man and he remembered very much, all he says I find interesting and he is never on long enough for me.

@@wally1452 Cavett did legitimately suffer from depression. I don't know if he had revealed this publicly when this show was aired, but he eventually did.

@DwightMS1, I totally agree with your comment, but for clarification's sake, you're aware Cavett is thankfully still alive and kicking as well as still displaying signs of a (very) sharp and sound mind, aren't you?

@@includemeout Yes Scott, I'm aware he's still living. But he hasn't been on the air for a long time.

Cavett always comes across as nervous and jittery .

You will never go broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

@@ttrons2 LOL, so very true!!

I read once Cavett was the only late night competition he 'feared'. He made a comment that if Dick ever got a real network he would be hard to beat. At that time ABC was not a power house network, did not have true national coverage, and many affiliates were lower power UHF channels. Cable was just starting to get national traction.

@@mwilliams1330 how interesting. I'd never heard that, but it makes total sense. Johnny Carson was very savvy, and acutely aware of quality when he saw it.

How true, Karen. I still remember his one-on-ones with Laurence Olivier, Katherine Hepburn, and Dick Van Dyke, who freely discussed his alcoholism. Even Marlon Brando came down from on high, and Cavett managed to get something out of him - no small task! On his half-hour PBS show, he devoted four consecutive ones to Richard Burton, covering his alcoholism and his early life in Wales - fabulous! They don't do 'em like this anymore. But then, you don't have such interesting people around, either!

Marlon Brando, an amazing actor, very insightful at times. But with all due respect, Orson Welles is on a plant of his own. I would even consider him a philosopher.

@@masoudsarvin850 " the absence of limitations is the enemy of art". Orson Welles.

He was too "European" for Hollywood.

@twofacialexpressions They wanted OW to make American films, not that European weirdo stuff.

@@masoudsarvin850 On which plant is Orson Welles? a smokeable one perhaps?

Check out on YT, 'Orson Welles - The Paris Interview.' It is from 1960 & fascinating.

and orson wasn't bad either....

those paintings must worth millions today

Irish film maker Mark Cousins made a feature in 2018 focusing on Welles' visual art...

Check out on YT, 'Orson Welles - The Paris Interview.' It is from 1960 & fascinating.

Because America is filled with dopes, and was fifty years ago. But in Cavett's book, Cavett on Cavett, he asserted that the Nielsen ratings were not a valid measure of his viewership because Nielsen did not check college dorms. Cavett's instinct was that a lot of his viewers were college students, always a most sought demographic for advertisers. I was in college, living in a dorm, in the early 1970s; we always watched Dick Cavett, not Johnny Carson.

Wow, great catch - he practically wasn’t afraid to mention it.

Check out on YT, 'Orson Welles - The Paris Interview.' It is from 1960 & fascinating!

@@CynthieD Thank you for the recommendation!

Mozart of interviews

Exactly

He did play Le Chiffre.

@@reinarforeman6518 He did lead a double life for many years. With a wife in LA and a girlfriend in Arizona driving back and forth between the two juggling the logistics.

Reminds me of the endearing smile that Jonathan Frakes pulls (in the role of Riker) in Star Trek: TNG

@@Vingul Somehow I see how anyone may be reminded of whichever series/culture reference they happen to favour, but I think anyone would agree this IS NOT a matter of REMINDING anyone of anyone else's smile: this IS that smile!

Read this comment on the exact moment he did that smile. I glanced at the timestamp, and was astounded by the serendipity of the moment.

Check out on YT, 'Orson Welles - The Paris Interview.' It is from 1960 & fascinating.

@@CynthieD Orson was known to exaggerate his stories, to the point of lying....Like the story where he was seated next to Hitler at an outdoor lunch when he was 14 years old. LOL

@@michaelcelani8325 Orson was heavily intoxicated much of the time which was probably the reason he embellished his stories

It seems that way, Cavett's initial monologue makes some jokes about Americans in Britain at his own expense.

Spock Boy ..Cavett was in New York Studios...not LA. He lived on Long Island and Manhattan.

Yes but TV is changing and this is what’s on again!

Tune in tomorrow night for the continuation, or remain in your seats in the studio during a slight pause, as we bring you these messages from Royal Pudding and Ty-D Bol...

And the part about being attacked by men, well smh, then again I figured that's what probably happens when you're sent out to the free world at such age and you're green as grass, by your own father sadly

We'll it never made money. Millions cross by ordinary jet.

Check out on YT, 'Orson Welles - The Paris Interview.' It is from 1960 & fascinating.

SF2021. Yeah...like meeting Hitler when Orson was a kid.

Also worth noting is that Welles’s Madrid villa burned down in August 1970 and from what I’ve read this interview happened in 1973.

Sadly, what you are saying is true. He was a master story teller but he has been proven to exaggerate the truth to fit the circumstances. I'm sure nobody would have had the nerve to question anything he said at the time. An amazing man just the same.

I haven’t heard that before. Where did you hear about him making up stories?

@@paulmarshall2007 : i find orson welles fascinating. i've read several biographies of him. there is a you tube video--"Simon Callow on orson welles and the theatre." an exaggerated story is always more interesting than what actually happened.

Bob Best Well, yes. That’s true. To quote the tabloid journalist’s maxim: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Or as Tom Sharpe says in one of his comic novels, “He’s an investigative journalist. Just give him a sentence and off it goes.” I was just wondering though. I’m assuming that various biographers such as Barbara Leaming have come to this conclusion having done detailed research? I’d be interested to know what stuff he made up or exaggerated. Watched quite a few of these classic long dick cavett interviews recently. The Richard burton one is an hour long and just brilliant also. Another larger than life character and a brilliant storyteller. Thanks.

@@paulmarshall2007 : i'm from wisconsin so one sticks--that Harry Houdini (also from wisconsin) taught him magic tricks. orson loved magic and wisconsin to NY & LA might as well been siberia. so he could say anything about wisconsin and get away with it. he told so many stories that the list could be endless.

Your absolutely right! He was an astounding actor his Othello is my very favourite version, he was working on it stop and start for 4 years and still made a masterpiece.

Probably the early to mid 70s his first cavett appearance was in 70 and this is his third or fourth

Yep

It was the screens that got small.