Thinking man's late night.(The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons DVD)(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)

Video Business, July, 2005 by Grant, Ed

Thinking man's late night The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons Shout! Factor, three discs, color, NR, 540 min. plus supplements, mono, fullscreen, Street Aug. 16, $39.98; First Run: ABC, 1969

TWO decades before Arsenio Hall discovered that appealing to the youth market could challenge Carson's Tonight Show, the short-haired, very straight-looking Cavett made TV history by having a string of highly intelligent chats with some of the biggest stars of early '70s rock and soul. This box contains nine episodes from Cavett's late-night ABC run, all of which illustrate his ability to showcase a top act of the day, as well as his natural skill at drawing them out on an intellectual level--a notion relegated to PBS and The Daily Show on TV today. At his easygoing best,...

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