Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
This is a collected version of a weekly New York Times column from about 2010-2012. It has very much the same genial rambling tone as another old-guy-chats-to-his-readers tome I finished lately, Dick Button's book, except that Cavett's is even more disjointed, being in newspaper-size bites. It's also very readable, at times LOL-funny, and contains enough name-dropping to satisfy the celebrity-hunger. Cavett's turn of phrase, and particularly his inversion of clichés, does leave one with a smile on the old visage.Personages of particular note discussed or described in this work: Muhammad Ali, Stan Laurel, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal, Johnny Carson, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, and Stephen Colbert - who gets Cavett's resounding endorsement as the replacement for Letterman, something that is coming to pass now, some two years after the column was written.
An amusing way to pass a few tedious hours.
