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Talk Show

Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

By: Dick Cavett

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Talk Show

Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

By: Dick Cavett

The legendary talk show host’s humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known, and culture and politics today. For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation’s most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett’s best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics. Pull up a chair and listen to Cavett’s stories about one-upping Bette Davis, testifying on behalf of John Lennon, confronting Richard Nixon, scheming with John Updike, befriending William F. Buckley, and palling around with Groucho Marx. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic. Cavett is also a wry cultural observer, looking at America today and pointing out the foibles that we so often fail to notice about ourselves. And don’t even get him started on politicians. A generation of Americans ended their evenings in Dick Cavett’s company; Talk Show is a way to welcome him back. “Do you know that age-old question, If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead, who would it be? Well, assuming Santa Claus is unavailable, my answer would be Dick Cavett. After reading Talk Show, you could just imagine what a conversation with him would be like: pleasant, insightful, and oddly erotic. Dick Cavett is a legend and an inspiration to me.” —Jimmy Fallon

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Macmillan

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1429948027

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9781429948029

Brief Encounters

Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

By: Dick Cavett

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Brief Encounters

Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

By: Dick Cavett

Reminiscences from the legendary talk show host: “Erudite and witty . . .Brief Encounters is very good and very funny.” —Chicago Tribune On his talk show, Dick Cavett welcomed leading figures from film, music, theater, literature, comedy, and politics, and engaged them in conversation that made viewers feel like the discussion was taking place in their own living rooms. In Brief Encounters, Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, and also offers piquant commentary on contemporary politics, the indignities of travel, the nature of comedy writing, and the utter improbability of being alive at all. “A touching essay about the late James Gandolfini, a fond remembrance of an afternoon at Stan Laurel’s small Los Angeles apartment, sparring with Muhammed Ali, and being talked into signing on as Apple’s first celebrity pitchman by a young Steve Jobs are all here, as are Cavett’s warm memories of John Lennon.” —Esquire “Includes numerous observations about contemporary culture and politics—neither Democrats nor Republicans are spared.” —USA Today “A delightful peek behind the curtain at celebrities, complex characters, and the nuances of everyday life—all told with his singular wit and style.” —Publishers Weekly Includes a foreword by Jimmy Fallon

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Macmillan + ORM

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0805099786

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9780805099782

Brief Encounters

Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

By: Dick Cavett

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Brief Encounters

Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

By: Dick Cavett

The best bathroom reading ever written! Each story takes just the right amount of time."—Mel Brooks

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Macmillan

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0805099778

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9780805099775

Talk Show

Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

By: Dick Cavett

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Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

By: Dick Cavett

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1429948027

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Eye on Cavett

By: Dick Cavett,Christopher Porterfield

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Eye on Cavett

By: Dick Cavett,Christopher Porterfield

The popular talk show host holds forth on a variety of topics--including the denizens of the movie and theatre worlds, literary luminaries, his native Nebraska, and public television--and through diverse lenses discloses something of himself

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250

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Arbor House Publishing Company

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0877954631

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9780877954637

Forever Mame

The Life of Rosalind Russell

By: Bernard F. Dick

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Forever Mame

The Life of Rosalind Russell

By: Bernard F. Dick

When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is still the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907–1976) would always be remembered for, embodies the rich and rewarding life Bernard F. Dick reveals in the first biography of this Golden Age star, Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell. Drawing on personal interviews and information from the archives of Russell and her producer-husband Frederick Brisson, Dick begins with Russell's childhood in Waterbury, Connecticut, and chronicles her early attempts to achieve recognition after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Frustrated by her inability to land a lead in a Broadway show, she headed for Hollywood in 1934 and two years later played her first starring role, the title character in Craig’s Wife. Dick discusses all of her films along with her triumphal return to Broadway, first in the musical Wonderful Town and later in Auntie Mame. Forever Mame details Russell's social circle of such stars as Loretta Young, Cary Grant, and Frank Sinatra. It traces an extraordinary career, ending with Russell's courageous battle against the two diseases that eventually caused her death: rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Russell devoted her last years to campaigning for arthritis research. So successful was she in her efforts to alert lawmakers to this crippling disease that a leading San Francisco research center is named after her.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604731397

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9781604731392

Hellman in Hollywood

By: Bernard F. Dick

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Hellman in Hollywood

By: Bernard F. Dick

Though Hellman is best known for her work in theater and for her memoirs, much of her work has been adapted for movies. She was deeply involved in writing film scripts and adapting the work of others to the screen. Dick tells the history of Hellman's contributions to American film as a playwright, screenwriter and adapter and analyses each play and its corresponding film to determine whether the adaptation achieves as a film what the original achieved as literature. ISBN 0-8386-3140-1.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838631401

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9780838631409

Indiana Curiosities

Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff

By: Dick Wolfsie

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Indiana Curiosities

Quirky characters, roadside oddities & other offbeat stuff

By: Dick Wolfsie

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hoosier State has to offer!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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076276161X

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9780762761616

Human Nature and You

How All Humans Reason and Why You’Re Unique

By: Dick Minnerly

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Human Nature and You

How All Humans Reason and Why You’Re Unique

By: Dick Minnerly

Human Nature and You is new fundamental thinking about all of us. It solves ancient dilemmas such as how all humans reason, how we each differ in that reasoning, and why we have a unique character at birth that shapes our personality and decisions throughout life. Its new theories revolutionize all our traditional thinking in philosophy, psychology, and politics, and give us our first truly leftist master plan for saving our societies. They also give us a new tool that reveals the innate character of anyone whose birth data we know. This tool, the Minnerly Impulse Pattern (or MIP), is superior to every method psychologists or other specialists have yet devised to reveal your total nature, including your strengths, weaknesses, and psychologic health or conflicts.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796075310

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9781796075311

The Midnight Show Murders

By: Dick Lochte,Al Roker

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The Midnight Show Murders

By: Dick Lochte,Al Roker

From bestselling author and iconic news personality Al Roker comes The Midnight Show Murders, the second book in the delightful Morning Show Murders series. Celebrity chef and Wake Up, America! cohost Billy Blessing heads to Los Angeles in order to help launch O’Day at Night, a new late-night show hosted by Irish comedian Desmond O’Day. LA brings up bad—and bloody—memories for Billy, but a special request from the head of the network sends him flying across the country. Twenty years ago, before becoming a famous New York chef, Billy worked in LA at Chez Anisette. One unfortunate evening, the young hostess, Tiffany Arden, was murdered with a meat tenderizer. While Billy always suspected the head chef, Roger Charbonnet, to be the murderer, the case was never solved. Now, back in a city he never thought he’d return to, Billy is confronted by Roger, who is still determined to exact vengeance. After a horrifying explosion during taping kills more than Desmond O’Day’s chance at high ratings, Billy believes that he was the intended target—and that Roger was somehow involved. But when politics, infidelity, and high finance get sprinkled in, the case turns out to have more ingredients than Billy ever imagined. Filled with the high-style hilarity, insider info, and surefire suspense that are Al Roker’s series trademark, The Midnight Show Murders is a five-star feast for any fan of top-flight mystery fiction.

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Blackstone Publishing

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9798200920334

Radical Innocence

A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten

By: Bernard F. Dick

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Radical Innocence

A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten

By: Bernard F. Dick

On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the alleged Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had refused to answer questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950, the Hollywood Ten (as they quickly became known), which included writers, directors, and a producer, were serving prison sentences ranging from six months to one year. Since that time, the members of the Hollywood Ten have been either dismissed as industry hacks or eulogized as Cold War martyrs, but never have they been discussed in terms of their professions. Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten is the first study to focus on the work of the Ten: their short stories, plays, novels, criticisms, poems, memoirs, and, of course, their films. Drawing on myriad sources, including archival materials, unpublished manuscripts, black market scripts, screenplay drafts, letters, and personal interviews, Bernard F. Dick describes the Ten's survival tactics during the blacklisting and analyzes the contributions of these ten individuals not only to film but also to the arts. Radical Innocence captures the personality of each of the Ten, including the arrogant Herbert J. Biberman, the witty Ring Lardner Jr., the patriarchal Samuel Ornitz, the compassionate Adrian Scott, and the feisty Dalton Trumbo.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813152674

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9780813152677

The Career Cartoonist

A Step-by-step Guide to Presenting and Selling Your Artwork

By: Dick Gautier

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The Career Cartoonist

A Step-by-step Guide to Presenting and Selling Your Artwork

By: Dick Gautier

In The Creative Cartoonist and The Art of Caricature, Gautier taught artists the techniques of cartooning and caricature. Now he shows them how to take the next step: selling their work. Here is everything amateur cartoonists need to enhance their skills and successfully break into the cartooning business. Over 150 drawings throughout.

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Perigee Trade

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0399517324

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9780399517327

The Shark Tank

By: Dick C

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The Shark Tank

By: Dick C

The Shark Tank is the third book of the trilogy of Dick C and his life. During this period of time I develop a thriving company. This business leads me to develop a software process that will be sought after by many in the federal arena. It also takes me into exposure and rubbing shoulders with some of the most connected and powerful individuals in the country. What follows in this book is the most challenging time of Dick C and his life. It will include a rise to success and then being unknowingly manipulated in an attempt to steal the software process, the company and all that follows. What happens to Dick C during this period and time is beyond belief. Read the entire Trilogy; Headlong Through Life, Book 1 of a Trilogy Return To Sanity, Book 2 of a Trilogy The Shark Tank, Book 3 of a Trilogy

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AuthorHouse

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1414047991

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9781414047997

Four Flats and a Pitch Pipe

By: Dick Cadd

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Four Flats and a Pitch Pipe

By: Dick Cadd

This is a book Renford says he never expected to write. Due to his long held view that the Book of Revelation was a negative and destructive book, he felt it had no place in the New Testament. This view changed with the development of his understanding of the Universal Laws, the innate powers of man, and the significance of the symbols and numbers. This book is a metaphysical interpretation of the Book of Revelation, which Renford shows as a roadmap to soul unfoldment. Though most consider it a book of riddles and external prophecy, its application is to the individual development from relative thought to higher thought. It is The Mysteries Revealed.

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1410792536

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Vitale

Just Your Average Bald, One-Eyed Basketball Wacko Who Beat the Ziggy and Became a Ptp'Er

By: Dick Vitale,Curry Kirkpatrick

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Vitale

Just Your Average Bald, One-Eyed Basketball Wacko Who Beat the Ziggy and Became a Ptp'Er

By: Dick Vitale,Curry Kirkpatrick

Here's the outrageous national bestseller by Dick Vitale, the colorful, outspoken sports announcer whose name is synonymous with college basketball commentator for ESPN and ABC, Vitale is a nationally known TV personality who is constantly travelling and promoting.

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Pocket Books

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0671677306

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9780671677305

The Minority Report

By: Philip K. Dick

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The Minority Report

By: Philip K. Dick

This collection (Vol. 4) covers the years 1954-1964 and includes such fascinating stories as "Service Call", "Stand By", "The Days of Perky Pat", and many others.

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Citadel Press

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0806512768

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9780806512761

Book's by Dick Cavett

Talk Show

Talk Show

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Brief Encounters

Brief Encounters

Brief Encounters

Talk Show

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Eye on Cavett

Eye on Cavett

Forever Mame

Forever Mame

Hellman in Hollywood

Hellman in Hollywood

Indiana Curiosities

Indiana Curiosities

Human Nature and You

Human Nature and You

The Midnight Show Murders

The Midnight Show Murders

Radical Innocence

Radical Innocence

The Career Cartoonist

The Career Cartoonist

The Shark Tank

The Shark Tank

Four Flats and a Pitch Pipe

Four Flats and a Pitch Pipe

Vitale

Vitale

The Minority Report

The Minority Report

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