Event

DICK CAVETT IN PERSON

Friday, November 19, 7:30pm

Members $20 Public $30 No Refunds
Join the legendary Dick Cavett for a special evening that will include an Interview, Q&A,
Rare TV Clips, Reception, Book-Signing, & Benefit Auction conducted by Dick Cavett himself!

THE GREAT DICK CAVETT, author of the new book Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary,
and Off-Screen Secrets, has chosen the Cinema Arts Centre for a rare, scintillating and
exclusive Long Island appearance with interview and audience Q&A. During the reception and book
signing that follows, Dick Cavett will personally conduct a CAC Benefit Live Auction of his Hollywood
Greats and Comic Legends DVD Boxed Interview Sets.
ÃÂ¢ ThereÃÂ¢s never been a talk show to equal Dick CavettÃÂ¢Ã,ÂÃ,Âs. His guest list was miraculous, the conversations
dazzling, and it's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book.-Woody Allen
AN EVENING WITH THE LEGENDARY
DICK CAVETT
Dick Cavett is, of course, the multiple Emmy award-winning, classic TV talk-show host widely considered
the most intelligent, trenchant and wittiest interviewer of our time. His voice unmistakable, his multifaceted
career has also included narration, acting and stand-up comedy. Mr. Cavett will beguile us with reminiscences and
rare TV clips with the era's greatest celebrities on his WABC late night program (running successfully opposite
Johnny Carson) from 1969 to 1975, and his PBS program from 1977 to 1982. Cavett's interviews have included such
celebrities as Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Groucho Marx, Sir Laurence Olivier, Janis Joplin, Fred
Astaire, Salvador Dali, Ray Charles, David Bowie, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, W.H. Auden,
Lillian Gish, Muhammed Ali, Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Robert Mitchum, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Norman Mailer, Frank
Capra, Kirk Douglas, & The Rolling Stones. Dick Cavett will be interviewed by Dr. Jud Newborn, CAC Special Projects Curator and
co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. Curated by Dr. Jud Newborn Co-Sponsored by Henry Holt and Company